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Beth B on No Wave, Lydia Lunch, and “Speaking the Unspeakable”
“You don’t need corporate validation or Hollywood validation to do something,” the pioneering No Wave filmmaker explains.
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The Forgotten “Black Woodstock” of 1969
Summer of Soul, Questlove’s directorial debut, seeks to resurrect the memory of the Harlem Cultural Festival, a vital touchstone of Black music.
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The Double-Crosses Don’t Stop Coming in the Noir Throwback No Sudden Move
Set in 1954 Detroit, Steven Soderbergh’s latest caper flick critiques capitalism and institutional racism as effortlessly as it piles on the twists.
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No Wave Musician Lydia Lunch Gets Her Due
Beth B’s biographical documentary The War is Never Over has a DIY sensibility befitting the No Wave performer.
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In Working Girls, Sex Work Is Another Everyday 9–5
A restoration of Lizzie Borden’s landmark 1986 portrait of sex and labor is coming to theaters.
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The 58th New York Film Festival, Now on the Big Screen
With quarantine restrictions now lifted, the festival’s virtual slate from last year is now getting play in theaters.
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At Third Horizon Film Festival, Caribbean Films Reflect on Layered Pasts, Presents, and Futures
Returning virtually this year, the annual Caribbean film festival offers a slate of rewarding films that revel in the intricacies of the region and its diaspora.
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Jump in the Ring With These Wrestling Films
Explore lucha libre, Hollywood transformation stories, and more within the strange, compelling world of professional wrestling.
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Three Playful, Inventive Films Streaming as Part of Made in LA
Through June 30, you can screen films by Alima Lee, Fox Maxy, and Maia Ruth Lee.
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A Queer Love Story Blooms Across Borders
Based on a true story, I Carry You With Me captures the nuances of leaving and longing.
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The Americanization of Hawai'i, Seen Through One Man's Life
Christopher Makoto Yogi’s beautiful, contemplative I Was a Simple Man merges the past and present of both one character and his environment.
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Ludi Captures How US Assimilationism Exhausts and Exploits
Set in Miami’s Little Haiti, Edson Jean’s feature debut follows a nurse on the verge of a breakdown.