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Disorder, Alice Winocour, Maryland

Alex Heeney / August 10, 2016

Disorder is a smart, heartpounding thriller

Although Alice Winocour’s new film Disorder works as a heartpounding home invasion thriller, it’s also a meditation on trauma, paranoia, class, and …

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Joshua Oppenheimer

Alex Heeney / February 25, 2016

Joshua Oppenheimer discusses his haunted, ‘magical realist’ doc The Look of Silence

Joshua Oppenheimer discusses his collaboration with Adi Rukun, the importance of empathy, and the magical realist landscape and soundscape of his …

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Wiseman Jackson Heights

Alex Heeney / November 20, 2015

Wiseman talks making In Jackson Heights

Master documentarian Frederick Wiseman discusses his editing process and how it informed how he shot In Jackson Heights. This is an excerpt from the ebook In …

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Photograph 51

Mary Angela Rowe / October 26, 2015

Photograph 51: In praise of difficult women

Photograph 51 suggests that sexism kept Franklin conservative, reluctant to be right because as a woman, she could never, ever be wrong. Ziegler’s text depicts …

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Please Like Me

Alex Heeney / October 14, 2015

Please Like Me gets even better in season 3

At the beginning of season three of the Australian dramedy Please Like Me, Josh (Josh Thomas) and his anxiety-prone paramour Arnold (Keegan Joyce) — whom we …

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Jafar Panahi's Taxi

Alex Heeney / October 14, 2015

Jafar Panahi’s Taxi is an absorbing day out in Tehran

Jafar Panahi's Taxi provides a window into contemporary life in Iran through this terrific made-to-look-like non-fiction narrative film set entirely inside …

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