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A Documentary Introduction to the Art World, with Star Power and Obvious Ideas
Blurred Lines: Inside the Art World, showing at the Tribeca Film Festival, is a successful crash course in the forces shaping the art market that fails to go deeper.
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The Rise and Fall of a 1980s Street Art Star
Artist Richard Hambleton's career took off in the 1980s, but the following decade he was wracked by addiction and destitute. A new documentary tracks his dramatic trajectory.
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The Complicated Legacy of Gertrude Bell, the Englishwoman Who Helped Colonize the Middle East
A new film looks at the life of the female explorer, spy, translator, and archaeologist, who's been largely written out of history.
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New Jersey’s One Million Acres of Undeveloped, Otherworldly Land
David Kessler spent six years filming the Pine Barrens' landscape and its inhabitants, capturing the area in every imaginable state and season.
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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.