Film
Where Were South Asian Dancers in the Oscars' "Best Song" Performance?
The ceremony’s rendition of the Indian Telugu-language song "Naatu Naatu" is indicative of under-representation across the industry, critics say.
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Achingly Intimate Doc About Ukrainian Orphans Insists on Hope
A House Made of Splinters bears witness not only to children’s ongoing trauma, but to their enduring ability to seek out and sustain their own support networks.
Film
Miami Film Festival Reveals South Florida's Cinema Crisis
The art-house movie theaters that long served as the festival’s screening venues now face extinction.
Film
Colorado Filmmakers Shine at Boulder International Film Festival
For its 2023 season, BIFF showed a total of 67 films, including an impressive 13 films by Colorado natives and four features from Sundance.
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Artists Tackle Social Media in Another Meh Episode of The Exhibit
Also, one contestant attempted three oil paintings in seven hours. It went as well as you can imagine.
Comics
Mike Leigh's BBC Films, Ranked
Leigh's films are class-conscious, prickly, strange, satirical, and often very funny.
Film
Hirshhorn’s The Exhibit Premieres With Inflatable Banana and Lots of Cringe
The Exhibit: Finding the Next Great Artist is filled with awkward silences and art-world jargon.
Film
London’s Castle Cinema Keeps the Magic of Film Alive
The theater’s Ciné-Real film club aims to preserve the beauty of celluloid in a consistently digitizing world.
Film
Whimsical Children’s Film Tackles War and Displacement in Syria
Dounia and the Princess of Aleppo (2022) is screening in New York this month to benefit earthquake relief in Syria.
Film
A Tale of Two Indigenous Fishermen in Mumbai
Against the Tide examines Mumbai’s Koli community’s drift between tradition and progress.
Film
Progress Meets Paranoia in Home Invasion
Director Graeme Arnfield describes the notion of “a horror film waiting on your doorstep,” but his film seems to suggest it’s already in the house.
Film
Trulee Hall Creates a Paradise of Lesbian Forest Nymphs
In the artist’s first feature-length film, Ladies Lair Lake, the choice to not have children is presented as valid and dignified.