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Six Autobiographical Films That “Say It Like It Is”
The Brooklyn Academy of Music will screen Camille Billops and James Hatch’s unique films centering Black American life, sexuality, and social issues.
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We’re Screwed, But It’s Okay
Rachel Lears’s new film To the End is optimistic, perhaps to a fault.
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Todd Haynes Discusses New Velvet Underground Doc
The director sat with Hyperallergic for a conversation about the making of his new film The Velvet Underground.
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New York’s Jewish Film Festival Is Back
The 32nd edition of the festival will feature 29 films representing 16 countries screening at the Walter Reade Theater.
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A Darkly Captivating Portrait of Toxic Obsession
A long history of checkered reviews of the film L’Homme blessé betrays a fundamental struggle with tragedy in a queer context.
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Is Body Horror the New Intimacy?
While sex is clearly in its cultural flop era, intimacy with ourselves and with others is being deftly portrayed in body horrors.
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Why Archaeologists Are Fuming Over Netflix's Ancient Apocalypse Series
In an open letter, the Society for American Archaeology accused journalist Graham Hancock's docuseries of disparaging experts while promoting “racist, white supremacist ideologies.”
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Film Looks at Suffering Through the Eyes of a Donkey
EO’s universe seems a godless one; there’s no philosophical reason for the pain that human and nonhuman animals endure.
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The Top 10 Films of 2022
Nope, Neptune Frost, and Laura Poitras’s portrait of Nan Goldin are on our list of the best films made this year.
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Life According to Annie Ernaux
The subject matter of The Super 8 Years could not be more mundane, but the Nobel Prize-winning memoirist’s musings elevate it to something far more compelling.
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Turkey Targets Film Deemed “LGBT Propaganda”
The Turkish Culture Ministry has demanded its funding back on an award-winning independent film after a smear campaign by conservative media.
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Seven Recommended Films From the Dominican Republic
Whether documentary, experimental, or somewhere in between, there is no shortage of intriguing Dominican films through which to consider life on the island.