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The Signature Themes in Abbas Kiarostami's Masterful Short Films
The IFC Center is running the largest retrospective to date of Abbas Kiarostami’s work, and its short film program is full of the director's masterfully rendered trademarks.
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The 13-Hour Movie La Flor Is Worth It
This labor of love was shot over the course of 10 years in around a dozen countries across South America, Europe, and Asia.
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Millennial Cinema Without the Cheap Stereotypes
We Can’t Even: Millennials on Film, a series of films at BAM about, by, and for millennials, is a rebuttal to the narratives that dominate the discourse around a generation's priorities and perspectives.
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The Dark Nostalgia of Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time ... in Hollywood
The movie makes its world of 1969 Los Angeles feel incredibly lived-in, not merely a look back but a transporting experience.
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Women Directors Take Risks in New Genre Shorts
The latest edition of the Fantasia International Film Festival continued its trend of elevating female filmmakers.
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Turning the Andes Into a Metaphor for Chile's History of Political Oppression
With The Cordillera of Dreams, director Patricio Guzmán closes out a trilogy of documentaries in which he's used Chile's landmarks as points of inquiry into the nation's past.
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"America" as Filmed by Directors From Outside the United States
Film at Lincoln Center's Another Country: Outsider Visions of America offers a smorgasbord of wildly disparate cinema by foreign and immigrant directors you wouldn't normally consider in the same conversation.
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Radical Migration Stories on the Road
NO EVIL EYE brings experimental film and politics to the forefront with a touring program currently screening in Brooklyn.
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The Mountain Revisits the Dark History of Lobotomies in 1950s America
The movie superficially depicts the normal world of '50s America but from a subtly disjointed point of view.
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A Showcase of Contemporary Dominican Cinema
The 8th Dominican Film Festival is the largest showcase of Dominican filmmaking outside the Dominican Republic itself, and its films, workshops, and panels look fascinating.
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The Crucial Role Music Once Played in Big Little Lies
In season two, the show all but abandoned one of its most effective cinematic tools: music.
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Queer Camp, Religious Kitsch, and Music in the American South
Two new documentaries, The Gospel of Eureka and Gay Chorus Deep South, explore Southern queerness and faith in drastically different ways.