Film
The Strange World of TikTok "Reality Shifters"
Popular video creators claim to have actually visited other universes (especially fictional ones) in their sleep. They have millions of dedicated believers.
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Pieces of a Woman Falls to Pieces
What begins as a trenchant exploration of losing a child becomes a Lifetime-esque affair that strays so sharply from a mother’s grief that it feels a bit like a betrayal.
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A Virtual Sundance Brings Movies About Isolation and Mediated Realities
The 2021 edition of the important film festival is open to viewers around the country.
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Is Any Modern Porn Worth Preserving?
There are many issues with keeping pornography in the historical record. Was anything of value lost in Pornhub's recent massive video purge?
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A Slippery Drama About the Uncertainty of Memory
In Hungary's Oscar submission Preparations to be Together for an Unknown Period of Time, a woman is thrown into turmoil when the man she loves apparently doesn't recognize her.
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30 Years of Offbeat Documentaries With Lynne Sachs
The Museum of the Moving Image is hosting a retrospective of Sachs's work, including the virtual cinema debut of her latest work, Film About a Father Who.
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Films That Center and Celebrate the Might of Black Women
On the eve of Kamala Harris’s historic inauguration, Protect Black Women highlights the lives and interiority of those who have “historically been the most vulnerable.”
Interview
Bringing the FBI's War on Martin Luther King Jr. to Light
Filmmaker Sam Pollard talks to Hyperallergic about his documentary MLK/FBI, how history repeats, and how authorities treat left- and right-wing protests differently.
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A Modern Update to the "Gentleman Thief" Genre
Starring Omar Sy, the French Netflix series Lupin is a delightful crime thriller.
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A Tribute to a Filmmaker Who’s Chronicled Black Life, From Civil Rights to Post-Katrina New Orleans
Film at Lincoln Center is presenting works by editor, producer, director, and professor Sam Pollard.
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Weird Animations About Infidelity, Warfare, and Quitting Smoking
Here are some highlights from the sizable collection of Bill Plympton cartoons on the Criterion Channel.
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How Autistic People See the World, in Their Own Words
The Reason I Jump immerses viewers in the experiences of those on the spectrum.