The hamlet of Igloolik in far northern Canada and the city of Conakry in West Africa’s Guinea are plagued by distinct issues, one a troubling suicide rate, the other widespread poverty.
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An Artist’s Quest to Confirm a Chernobyl Conspiracy Theory
The Russian Woodpecker is a documentary about zombies.
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The Living Metal Scraps and Dancing Dolls of the Quay Brothers
When you watch a film by Stephen and Timothy Quay, those twin princes of darkness, you enter a shadow world.
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The Refined Sloppiness of a No Wave Cinema Gem
Eric Mitchell once described his 1978 No Wave film Kidnapped as “a 1960s underground movie happening today.”
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Among Intimates at New York’s Queer Experimental Film Festival
When I arrived early on opening night of this year’s MIX NYC festival at a former manufacturing space in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, I heard a rumor that there used to be a panty factory there.
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After 44 Elusive Years, a French New Wave Masterpiece Comes to Theaters
As it might be if Harper Lee or Thomas Pynchon ambled out of seclusion and made appearances at bookstores and literary conferences, the world theatrical premiere of Out 1: Noli me Tangere is not simply a coming-out party.
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Flatness Where There Should Be Depth: Noah Baumbach’s ‘Mistress America’
Mistress America is director Noah Baumbach’s latest take on the trials and tribulations of the supposedly indecisive and perennially juvenile millennial generation.
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New York Film Festival Recap
If the 53rd New York Film Festival is any indication, the world’s filmmakers are feeling the heat.
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A Reverential Close-up of Robert Frank Leaves Questions Unasked
In its day, Auguste Rodin’s now esteemed 1876 sculpture “The Bronze Age” roused the considerable ill will of art critics, most notably for the belief that it was cast from a live model.
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On ‘Amy’ and ‘Ex Machina’
Asif Kapadia’s documentary Amy reconstructs the late singer, Amy Winehouse, by giving the viewer the full story, Amy’s entire life from girlhood until her death.
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A Pair of Filmmakers Captures the World in 16mm
The films of Nathaniel Dorsky and Jerome Hiler are silent, brief, and sagely meandering — luminous contemplations of life, film, and the intimacies between the two.
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An Homage to Thailand’s History and Elegy for Its Future
The films of Apichatpong Weerasethakul are inspired by a poetics of everyday life poised between two extremes.
