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When a Documentary Film Unveils a Massacre
In 1965–66, Indonesia’s military set off a killing spree. A new documentary film, The Act of Killing, has begun to illuminate the events in an unprecedented way.
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Bad Girl Criminality and American Teen Dreams
News broke last month that celebrity Lindsay Lohan would soon be getting her own "docu-series," aka reality TV show, on OWN, the Oprah Network. Now that she’s out of court-ordered rehab, she'll sit down with Oprah for an exclusive interview about all things LiLo, airing August 18th; her reality TV s
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Orson Welles: Lost and Found
The only surviving copy of Orson Welles' 1930 silent film Too Much Johnson was long thought totally lost after a fire devastated Welles' home outside Madrid in 1970, yet yesterday the George Eastman House not only announced it had been recovered, but that a screening would be held this October.
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They’re Here, They’re Queer, Get Into It: Dirty Looks
This July, the monthly film series Dirty Looks mounted the second installment of their “On Location” program, an ongoing presentation of art interventions that encroaches everywhere from bars to galleries to the television sets of everyone in the New York area. The series takes on guerrilla tactics
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Ghost in the (Chess) Machine
Set sometime in the ’80s, mumblecore maven Andrew Bujalski’s fourth feature, Computer Chess, is an adventurous and peculiar period piece. Chronicling a tournament of computers competing in chess and the programmers who code them, the film endearingly evokes the nascent and heady era before smart pho
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Four Documentaries That Capture the Globalization of Street Art
As an ever-increasing amount of street art documentaries appear online, along with pleas for Kickstarter donations to prospective films, I, a longtime street art enthusiast, find it near impossible and entirely overwhelming to try to watch all of these films. With the recent release of yet another s
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Cell Phone Images of the War of Terror
The NSA surveillance scandal has, in a short term, made a lot of people feel depressed and/or worried about the state of governance in America. This is both good and bad for Jeremy Scahill’s new documentary, Dirty Wars, which is directed by Richard Rowley and is also the title of a simultaneously re
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Crispin Glover Tackles Hollywood Taboos
If you only know Crispin Hellion Glover as a quirky actor with the gift of an unsettling gaze, then you're missing out on the major focus of his career as the producer of experimental films that lunge voraciously into taboos. And it's easy to miss, as the only way to see these films is when he scree
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Henry James on Film: A Narrative Execution
CINCINNATI — In the narrow hallway outside the Park City Library Center, a school auditorium–turned–Sundance Film Festival screening venue, self-taught filmmaker duo David Siegel and Scott McGehee pace the floor while an audience watches an early screening of their sophomore movie The Deep End, a mo
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All Things Began in Order, So Shall They End: Marco Brambilla's 3D Film Trilogy
Between the Gothic walls of St. Patrick's Old Cathedral, with a choir intoning an ethereal soundtrack from all sides, Marco Brambilla's "Creation (Megaplex)" revealed its vision of humanity from Big Bang to apocalypse in a swirling 3D film.
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Tribeca Makes Way for Transmedia
The partygoers entered the large, black fabric cave in single file, balancing their drinks in hand and squatting low in order to sit at the computer inside. They typed away, sharing stories about sleepless nights for “A Journal of Insomnia,” a cloud-based, digital art project produced by Hugues Swee
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From Colorado to Brooklyn to a Place Beyond the Pines
They come in waves — family from Colorado, friends from Brooklyn, loyal producers, all passing through the door of a Toronto hotel room to share congratulations with filmmaker Derek Cianfrance on the debut of his third feature film, the highly-anticipated and acclaimed working-class drama The Place