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The Man and the Myth: Nick Cave's Memories
The myth-maker becomes the myth in 20,000 Days on Earth, a fun-house foray through memory, music, life, and creativity.
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The Last Victorian Microscope Artist
The art of diatom designs didn't really make it into the 21st century.
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A Documentarian of Memory
Chris Marker’s death two years ago, on the day of his 91st birthday, heralded a surge of renewed interest in the enigmatic French filmmaker. With an impressive retrospective centered on a digital restoration of the film Level Five (1997), the Brooklyn Academy of Music presses on with the project of
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A Tumultuous Tale of Boy Meets Girl
Thirty years after its release seduced critics with a nocturnal, jumbled dream of love and light, Leos Carax's debut film, Boy Meets Girl, continues to burn with contradictions, seeming somehow to be younger today than it was yesterday.
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From a Williamsburg Storefront to a Midtown Museum: Spectacle Theater at MAD
Spectacle excels at making the most of whatever its members put their eclectic, seemingly tireless minds to. Seven days a week the volunteer-made, volunteer-run, 30-seat screening space in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, hustles out a menagerie of films — rare, radical, forgotten, misbegotten, offbeat, and
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Yves Saint Laurent's Tortured Life of Fashion
Very few figures in fashion have embodied the archetype of the talented and tortured artist like Yves Saint Laurent.
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Now on Film: The Mysterious Healing Power of Emery Blagdon’s Art
Yesterday evening’s nationwide PBS broadcast of Kelly Rush’s new documentary short, Emery Blagdon & His Healing Machine, served as a reminder of just what it is that distinguishes the lives and careers of the most exemplary outsider artists.
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A Fictional Childhood, Filmed in Real Time
The big bet pays off in Boyhood, much like the risks of early life: making friends, changing the way we think and look, the things we do.
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A Secret Film Smuggled Out into the World
Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi continues to make movies. Caged in his perverse, Kafkaesque "larger prison," Panahi faces a 20-year ban by the Iranian government on filmmaking, international travel, and interviews.
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China’s Buried Past and Submerged Future: Patty Chang and David Kelley’s 'Flotsam Jetsam'
In the opening moments of the film, Flotsam Jetsam (2007) by Patty Chang and David Kelley, currently playing at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, a bridge-like structure is seen in the distance, partially traversing what seems to be a wide river.
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Debuts Distinguish BAMcinemaFest 2014
Opening tonight with the New York premiere of Boyhood, Richard Linklater's highly anticipated coming-of-age tale, the sixth incarnation of BAMcinemaFest finds the festival itself approaching maturity.
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One Day Pina Asked... and Chantal Akerman Listened
Beginning life as an installment in a European television series on modern dance, One Day Pina Asked… (1983) is the best cinematic reflection on the late, great modern dance choreographer Pina Bausch.