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The Raw, Unshakeable Queer Love in 1951's Olivia
Jacqueline Audry’s powerfully complex film set in a 19th-century French boarding school for girl resonates even today, and it just got a new restoration.
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A Disturbing Reckoning With China's One-Child Policy
Nanfu Wang and Jialing Zhang's new documentary One Child Nation unpacks the history and brutal effects of a policy that dominated a population.
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When Horror Movies Are Not Only Gory but Quirky and Cerebral
Popcorn Frights Film Festival gives South Florida residents a rare chance to catch offbeat genre fare on a big screen.
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Documentaries That Make New Connections Between the Personal and Political
At BlackStar Film Festival, filmmakers of color address topics ranging from immigration, to hip hop, to Audre Lorde's The Cancer Journals.
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A Joan of Arc Film Brings the Saint Down to Earth
An expansive biopic, Jacques Rivette's newly restored 1994 film Joan the Maid focuses on Joan of Arc the human first — and Joan the myth, saint, and warrior second.
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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.