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A TV Miniseries Brings the Chernobyl Disaster Back Into Public Discussion
HBO and Sky UK's Chernobyl draws from thorough research to evoke the fear and confusion surrounding the nuclear accident.
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An Innovative YouTube Series Visualizes Sports Data in a Mesmerizing Manner
SB Nation's Jon Bois brings a singular style to his video storytelling.
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Reconsidering The Jinx as Robert Durst Goes on Trial
Robert Durst will soon be tried for murder in part because of HBO's true crime series about him. What does it mean if the fact that the documentary was misleadingly edited impacts the verdict?
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Lis Rhodes's Films Are an Active Outcry Against Exploitation
Rhodes’s diverse collection of feminist films show an obsessive concentration on language as a system of signs that reveals but also reinforces the oppressive structures faced by the world’s most vulnerable populations.
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An Overlooked Gem from the New Queer Cinema Wave Imagines John Lennon on Holiday
1991's The Hours and Times, recently restored and now available to stream, is part of a tradition of queer films recontextualizing what we think we know about history.
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A Tribute to the Millions of Lives Destroyed in the Cambodian Genocide
Filmmaker Denis Do used interviews with his mother to craft the animated film Funan, an affecting portrait of a family swept up in the brutal Khmer Rouge regime.
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A Filmmaker Who Fought Bollywood to Realize His Vision
Anurag Kashyap has never resisted the opportunity to take classical elements and tropes of Bollywood storytelling and invert, twist, and mold them into something new.
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A Tender Friendship Between Black Men Escapes the Limits of Toxic Masculinity
The Last Black Man in San Francisco is refreshingly profound in its exploration of the physical and emotional closeness of its lead characters.
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A Horror Flick Parodies Instagram and the Idea of "Finding Yourself" Abroad
In Midsommar, being an ugly American could get you killed.
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The Pitfalls and Performance of Virtue Signaling at the Democratic Debates
Every candidate likes to boast about themselves, but there's an art to getting away with it.
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10 Queer Camp Films That Have Left an Impact on Film History
Memorable, mostly underseen gems that explore the tensions of queerness and camp on screen.
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The Delicious and Campy Queer Cinema of 1970s and ’80s Germany
The Quad Cinema in New York City is showing Queer Kino, a selection of queer cinema from East and West Germany in the 1970s and ’80s