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After Decades of Repression, Bill Gunn’s Work Finally Breaks Free
Because he refused to play to white hegemony, Gunn’s films were often poorly understood.
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Looking Back at the Misbegotten Woodstock ’99 Music Festival
The HBO documentary Woodstock 99: Peace, Love, and Rage views the event not just as one fiasco, but as an allegory for the Y2K era.
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Rest in Power, Menelik Shabazz. Black British Cinema Is All the Better in Your Wake.
The Barbadian-born filmmaker, producer, and writer passed away in June, after decades of advocating for Afro-diasporic film culture.
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A 700-Year-Old Poem Becomes an Existential Modern Fantasy Film
The Green Knight adapts a Middle English chivalric romance of King Arthur’s court as a somber, allegorical adventure.
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A Mystical Masseuse Sends a Gated Community Into Upheaval
Director Malgorzata Szumowska uses fantasy to satirize the lives of the affluent in Poland’s official Oscar submission.
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Fire Engulfs Warehouse of South America’s Largest Film Collection
São Paulo's Cinemateca Brasileira is the latest cultural organization threatened by preventable fires in Brazil.
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Japan’s Offbeat Olympics Opening Ceremony
The opening ceremony is a giant “Welcome!” party thrown by the host country. How did Japan welcome the world this year?
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Catch the Latest in International Cinema
Returning to the Museum of Moving Image, this year’s First Look 20/21 is the largest in the festival’s history.
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SFMOMA Cuts Beloved Film Program and More, Leaving Many in Shock
Artists, art lovers, and employees expressed disbelief and outrage, saying the programs were ones that genuinely included the community.
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How Tennis Star Naomi Osaka Handles the Pressure of Competition
Garrett Bradley’s Netflix docuseries explores the tennis star as a vessel for other people’s love and aspirations.
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In M. Night Shyamalan’s New Thriller, a Beach Rapidly Ages Anyone Who Visits
Old literalizes the adage about how life passes you by in a flash, to horrifying effect.
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75 Years On, How Cinema Remembers the Holocaust
With those who directly experienced the events dwindling in number, films about the Holocaust must now grapple with what “Never forget” truly means.