Film
Onlookers Records the Lure of the Tourist Gaze
Kimi Takesue’s new documentary nudges us to consider whether we in the audience differ all that much from the tourists whipping out their iPhones.
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When a Woman Searches for a Man and Finds Herself Instead
The women-led Retrospective section of the Berlinale gives second-wave feminism a fresh look.
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Maria Lassnig’s Triumphant “Little Films”
Lassnig’s short films perfectly present the artist’s uncanny talent for marrying morbidity and frolic, rigor and wantonness.
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Behind the Scenes of Amazon Workers’ Fight for a Union
Brett Story’s Union demonstrates how the tedium of labor organizing can sometimes catalyze electric triumphs.
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An Online Film Festival That's All About Cycling
The Bicycle Film Festival boasts more than 40 shorts and features spanning South Korea to Havana, from e-bike food delivery stories to rural gravel races.
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Pandora’s Box Unleashes a Universe of Male Oppression
Newly restored, G.W. Pabst’s 1929 film provides a bleak, unsettling account of a showgirl’s ruin at the greedy hands of competing male suitors.
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Sundance Documentaries Pay Tribute to Female Trailblazers
This year’s Sundance Film Festival offered an array of documentaries spanning cultural vantages and historic eras, about women who span the globe.
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The Surreal Realism of Buñuel’s Mexican Films
Luis Buñuel believed that surreal moments were necessary to achieve a true documentary style, as they reflect the fantastical, mysterious nature of everyday reality.
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New LA Festival Centers Local Filmmakers of Color
Crenshaw Dairy Mart's inaugural film festival this weekend features documentaries, music videos, works in progress, and more.
Books
The Writer Who Made Films to “Get Out of the House”
A new book traces the development of Marguerite Duras, one of the 20th century’s greatest cinematic minds.
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Once Upon a Time in Brighton Beach
Two recently restored films by women directors offer differing snapshots of America of the 1970s and ’80s.
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Trolley Times Captures a Collective Roar for Food and Truth
Gurvinder Singh’s film artfully chronicles a movement in protest of India’s debilitating farm acts.