Podcast
Hyperallergic Picks Their Favorite Holiday Movie Classics
Film editor Dan Schindel joins Editor-in-chief Hrag Vartanian to discuss why we love holiday films, and other Hyperallergic staff share their faves.
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A Tribute to Agnès Varda's Melding of the Personal and Political
To get the fullest picture of the artist requires traveling back through her filmography, a joyful opportunity provided by Film at Lincoln Center’s series Varda: A Retrospective, which opens today and runs through January 6.
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Invisible Life Reveals the Lush Inner Lives of Two Sisters Torn Apart by Tradition
Adapted from Martha Batalha’s novel, Karim Aïnouz's latest tells the twinned stories of sisters Eurídice and Guida by exploring the pocket of time in their lives before they stopped waiting on their dreams.
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A History of Film at MoMA, as Told by Its Original Curator
As part of its reopening slate, a film series at the museum pays tribute to the foundational programming of its influential film curator Iris Barry.
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Honoring the Art of the Archival Film
At the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam, the Re-Releasing History program presented a dazzling array of movies built from found footage and more.
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Bombshell Misses the Mark in Contextualizing #MeToo
While it touches on the toxic masculinity and systematic sexism that permeates Fox News, the film does little to contextualize the industry that allowed this behavior to thrive.
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Seeing How Experimental Documentary Film Can Get
The Paradocs program at the 2019 International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam toys with the very structural components of cinema.
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A Hidden Life Is a Passionate, Damning Meditation on Faith and Fascism
Terrence Malick’s latest film makes me feel the way church never did, capturing an essence of the divine through aesthetic sublimity.
In Brief
Purple Rain and She’s Gotta Have It Among 2019 Picks for National Film Registry
Since 1988, the National Film Registry has added an annual set of 25 films in order to “ensure the survival, conservation and increased public availability of America's film heritage.”
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The Directors Mixing Fact and Fiction at the Forefront of New Chilean Cinema
In a charged political moment, hybrid documentaries speak to Chilean identity and struggle better than any other form of filmmaking.
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Portrait of a Lady on Fire, a Queer Homage to the Labor of Women Artists
More than being one of the greatest lesbian romances, Céline Sciamma’s latest is a beautiful film about artistic labor and the social contexts that uplift some artists above others.
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Rethinking Villains in Documentary Film
At the 2019 International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam, the programming strand "The Villain" looked for new ways to depict unsavory subjects.