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Inside the Spate of Cab Driver Suicides in New York
Hyperallergic has the exclusive premiere of Days of Black and Yellow, a documentary short about the pressures the rideshare industry has put on cab drivers.
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Pierre Huyghe's Filmic Fantasia About Preparing for Life
Huyghe's The Host and the Cloud, which ran at the Crossing the Line festival, creates a surprising sense of solemnity in making ready for events.
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The Artful Amateurism of Home Movies
In MoMA’s first exhibition composed entirely of home movies, visitors are placed into the perspective of these amateur filmmakers, ever so often stumbling upon a choice moment of intimacy.
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Aspiring Filmmakers Can Now Access Sundance Institute's Expansive Resources Online
Sundance Co//ab will offer educational videos, webinars, and forums.
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The Labor Rights Film That Got Both of Its Directors Murdered by the Yakuza
A special screening tour of Yama — Attack to Attack offers a chance to see this extremely rare Japanese film, which was intended to be used in perpetuity to agitate on behalf of the working class.
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Films That Transcend Southern Stereotypes and 'Florida Man' Headlines
The Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival shows that while state lines may clearly delineate the South, they don’t neatly define the people living within them.
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The Bittersweet Nostalgia of Watching Basquiat in Downtown 81
A time capsule that holds the legendary artist in immortal youth, the cult classic also preserves a certain New York, which has now changed beyond recognition.
In Brief
Nigeria’s First Oscar Contender Disqualified for Mostly English Dialogue
Social media has come to the defense of Genevieve Nnaji’s Lionheart, which was disqualified from competing in the newly renamed category of Best International Feature Film, formerly known as the Best Foreign Language Film.
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Transforming the Cinema Into a Wholly Sustainable Space
The exhibition Ecocinema explores the relationship between humans and nature, and goes a step further: transforming the Kunsthalle into four movie theaters, using sustainable, natural materials.
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A Brutal, Historic Film About Decolonization
Gillo Pontecorvo's The Battle of Algiers is one of the great films in history to depict insurgent warfare, and New Yorkers can see it for free this week.
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"It's All Downhill from Here": Noah Baumbach's Marriage Story
With his latest film, the director pays tribute to Ingmar Bergman's epic Scenes from a Marriage, revealing the disconnect between the public face of marriage and the reality of joined private lives.
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North Korea as a Multifaceted State Instead of a Boogeyman
Filmmaker Soon-mi Yoo is getting her own focus at the London Korean Film Festival. Her 2014 documentary Songs from the North takes a neutral approach toward a nation that is usually reviled or laughed at.