A Show of Japanese “Expanded” Cinema Neglects to Include the Works’ Expansive Parts
Originally, the works incorporated live soundtracks or performances and were shown in places like the Tokyo disco Killer Joe's.
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Teens Wander a Postapocalyptic World in Stanya Kahn’s New Film
Kahn has frequently portrayed contemporary civilization as a wasteland, but No Go Backs may be her starkest treatment of the theme to date.
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The Top Ten Streaming Films About Artists
Some are works of fiction, some are ostensibly nonfiction, but all ten, without preciousness or corniness, present artistry as a kind of unsolvable riddle.
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Gareth Long Puts a Spotlight on the Grift of Local Entertainment–and Dabbles in It, Too
We're attracted to grifters because they tell us what we want to hear, regardless of whether or not it makes sense.
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In a Riveting Film, Telepathic Revolutionaries and a Brooklyn Noise Band Avenge Racist Murders
We've seen countless images of violence against the oppressed, often in the name of raising awareness. Why are there so many fewer depictions of acts of vengeance and revenge and fighting back against the powerful?
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Imagining America: Outsider Visions at Lincoln Center
Unfamiliar takes on the so-called "new world" is the subject of the ambitious film series "Another Country: Outsider Visions of America," on view through August 14 at Lincoln Center. The series…
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Community of Wanderers
Jianghu is the key that unlocks a secret dimension of Jia Zhangke's past work, and a crucial framework through which to reread his entire artistic oeuvre.
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Beatrice Gibson
French-British filmmaker Beatrice Gibson champions community, creativity, and motherhood as ways of living through times of political turmoil.
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Martha Rosler
The diverse range of work in "Irrespective," which viewers encounter in galleries filled with the background audio-wash of her videos, makes it clear that what really underlies Martha Rosler's art is…
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Story’s Edge: Warren Sonbert’s Propulsive Cinema
Warren Sonbert's cinema is witty, exhausting, sentimental, and full of rage. But it is never facile, and it never concedes to being any of these things all the time.
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Sharna Burgess will be ‘over the moon’ if ‘Dancing with the Stars’ asks her to return a year after dropping her
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Fresh Prince of Bel-Air Drama (!) Reboot in the Works; Will Smith Attached as EP
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Microsoft’s xCloud game streaming public beta launches today
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Chelsea Peretti Gets Caffeinated on ‘Phosphorescent Panic’ EP, Featuring Nick Kroll, Kathleen Hanna
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