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Maurizio Cattelan’s Latest Prank Is a Documentary About His Life and Work
Maurizio Cattelan: Be Right Back makes an unconventional yet compelling case for the profundity of the artist's elaborate sculptural jokes.
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A Madcap Animated Movie About a High School Slowly Sliding into the Sea
This captivating film offers a strong argument for more graphic novelists to apply their creativity to animation.
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The Blessing and Curse of Emily Dickinson’s Homebound World
Cynthia Nixon plays the older Dickinson, portraying her as multitudinous, assertive, rebellious, principled, shrill, demure, sensitive, coy, and vain.
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The Remarkable Films of Anne-Marie Miéville, Godard's Partner and Collaborator
Little is known about Miéville, but what people are searching for can be found in her films, and has been there the whole time.
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A Cinematic Portrait of David Lynch’s Life and Art Before Film
The new documentary David Lynch: The Art Life is an engrossing account of the artist's early life, from childhood to film school.
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A Documentary on Tony Conrad's Shape-Shifting Legacy
A new documentary about the experimental musician, filmmaker, and artist, details his many influential projects while illuminating countless others we know very little about — for now.
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A Stilted Cinematic Portrait of Cézanne and Zola's Lifelong Friendship
The new film Cézanne and I focuses on the extreme temperamental differences between the two great friends, but offers few other insights.
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Transhumanism and the Promise of the Bodiless Mind in the Original Ghost in the Shell
Rather than make the series feel dated, identity issues in the cyber age make the 1995 film seem extraordinarily prescient.
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A Fantastical Addition to the Fading Genre of Live-Action Children’s Films
Andrés Waissbluth’s Un caballo llamado Elefante (“Elephant, the Horse”), playing at the Museum of Modern Art, is a charming reversal of the trend toward animation.
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A Film Mixes Fact and Fiction to Illuminate the Lives of Queer Teens in Bangkok
'#BKKY' is a coming-of-age love story following Jojo, who embodies an amalgamation of interviews the director conducted with 100 Thai teenagers.
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Agnès Varda’s Playful Recycling of Her Art
In the last 15 years, Agnès Varda has embraced the label of visual artist rather than the more specific filmmaker.
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A Documentary About Syrian Refugees Undermines Its Subjects
'A Syrian Love Story' has an opportunity to do delicate, powerful work; instead, like its subjects, it gets trapped within the limits of its own choices.