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Did You Know Helen Keller Was a Socialist?
The documentary Her Socialist Smile reconstructs Keller from an icon of vague, feel-good platitudes to the fiercely political woman she truly was.
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New York Stories That Play With Connection and Form
Among the shorts playing the 2020 New York Film Festival, those in the New York Stories block embody the spirit of a city erroneously declared dead, offering studies in movement and character.
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What Not to Miss at the 2020 New York Film Festival
Get your popcorn ready. This year’s program includes highlights like Steve McQueen’s Small Axe films, ruminative queer romances, and incisive documentaries about US politics and Helen Keller’s activism.
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Where Does Independent Documentary Go From Here?
Leading filmmakers Cecilia Aldarondo and Robert Greene discuss how the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted their field, and what the future might hold.
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Lucrecia Martel's Feminine Monsters
Three of the Argentine director's films are now on the Criterion Channel, and they demonstrate how she complicates ideas of female agency and power.
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What Does Obama and Reagan’s Official Photographer Think About Trump?
In The Way I See It, former White House photographer Pete Souza recalls his time following two different presidents.
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The Heartwarming Tale of a Man Who Befriended an Octopus
In My Octopus Teacher, filmmaker Craig Foster documents his unusual relationship with an octopus he met while freediving.
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The Hostility of Gentrification in Black DC Neighborhoods
Residue, Merawi Gerima’s debut feature, depicts the impact of gentrification in an almost impressionistic, oblique way.
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Our Favorite Experimental Films From the Toronto International Film Festival
Highlights included Ephraim Asili’s striking debut feature The Inheritance and Nicolás Pereda’s Fauna, an inventive story within a story.
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From MLK to Whistleblowers, the FBI’s Trouble with Dissidents
The films MLK/FBI and Enemies of the State offer contrasting looks at government oppression.
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David Byrne and Spike Lee Consider the Oxymoron of "American Utopia"
American Utopia, Lee's film of the stage show, recontextualizes some of Byrne's greatest hits as musings on modern life.
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The Curious Lives of the Russian Stray Dogs That Traveled to Space
Space Dogs explores the lives of Moscow street dogs past and present, including the ones used in the Soviet space program.