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New York Film Festival Recap
If the 53rd New York Film Festival is any indication, the world’s filmmakers are feeling the heat.
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A Video Installation Immerses You in 1970s Brooklyn
From the window of his apartment at Atlantic and Flatbush avenues, filmmaker Aldo Tambellini captured the slow changes in Brooklyn street life from 1971 to 1972.
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A Reverential Close-up of Robert Frank Leaves Questions Unasked
In its day, Auguste Rodin’s now esteemed 1876 sculpture "The Bronze Age" roused the considerable ill will of art critics, most notably for the belief that it was cast from a live model.
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On 'Amy' and 'Ex Machina'
Asif Kapadia’s documentary Amy reconstructs the late singer, Amy Winehouse, by giving the viewer the full story, Amy’s entire life from girlhood until her death.
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A Pair of Filmmakers Captures the World in 16mm
The films of Nathaniel Dorsky and Jerome Hiler are silent, brief, and sagely meandering — luminous contemplations of life, film, and the intimacies between the two.
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An Homage to Thailand’s History and Elegy for Its Future
The films of Apichatpong Weerasethakul are inspired by a poetics of everyday life poised between two extremes.
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Nature in an Acid Bath: Early Color Films of National Park Vistas
In the 1930s the National Park Service created silent films, hand-tinted and toned with vibrant color, to promote outdoor oases to American travelers.
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Rare 1915 Films Show Rodin, Monet, Renoir, and Degas in Their Twilight Years
In 1915, with the newly innovated film camera, a young Russian-born, French actor named Sacha Guitry captured some of France's greatest artists and authors.
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An Experimental Filmmaker's On-Screen Exorcisms
Luther Price keeps you guessing.
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The Grainy Doom of the Apocalypse on Film
Whether a bang of nuclear annihilation or the slow creep of a pandemic, our potential end-of-world wastelands have their own bleak visual language.
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Takashi Murakami Tackles Japanese Trauma and Fear in His First Film
“Superflat,” the name of the art movement influenced by Japanese anime cartoons that was founded by Takashi Murakami, also describes the human characters in his first feature film, Jellyfish Eyes.
In Brief
Designing a Revolutionary Visual Identity for the Black Panthers
"Art has relevancy, whether it's to exploit you or pacify you, or to enlighten and inform you. It's a language, that's the power of it," says Emory Douglas, the artist who drove the graphic identity of the Black Panthers.