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Workers Are Mad as Hell and Won't Take It Anymore
Director Sean Claffey's Americonned foregrounds real stories and the ripple effects that place working-class people in crisis.
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Finally, a Movie That Understands the Lives of Artists
Showing Up, directed by Kelly Reichardt, uniquely tells a story of an artist working far from any monetary goals or God complex.
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The Vanished Youth of China’s Textile Workers
Wang Bing’s Youth (Spring) looks at China’s young textile workers who have migrated from rural homes to stitch mass-produced children’s clothes.
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Kenneth Anger, Trailblazing Experimental Filmmaker, Dies at 96
Anger plumbed the depths of the dark side of humanity and of the film medium’s potential to make both angels and demons.
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Films That Resist the Erasure of Arab Identity
The New York Arab Festival is concluding its second edition with a screening of nine short films at the Museum of the Moving Image.
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Netflix Documentary Exposes the Criminalization of Sexual Assault Victims
Victim/Suspect reveals the extent to which women are vulnerable to pressures to take the blame, and even serve time, for their own violent rapes.
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The White Savior Sin of A Still Small Voice
While on its surface the film follows selfless caregivers, dig a tad deeper and troubling aspects begin to bubble up.
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60 Films That Say "I Love New York"
A festival opening this week at Film Forum highlights NYC-based, critically acclaimed films throughout the decades, from Scorsese to blaxploitation.
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The A-Lot-Ness of Little Richard
Little Richard: I Am Everything honors the a-lot-ness that made him a 20th-century pioneer, while acknowledging the bumps along the trail he blazed.
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A Free NYC Film Festival Puts the Lens on Native Stories
The National Museum of the American Indian’s series focuses on films exploring the histories and communities that "make New York a Native place."
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Apichatpong Weerasethakul on Human Suffering, VR, and the Long Take
The Thai director discusses his dreamlike films in a conversation with Hyperallergic ahead of his career retrospective in New York City.
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New York African Film Festival Returns to Lincoln Center
The 30th edition includes over 50 screenings and artist talks, with many of the films making their United States debut.