Although Alice Winocour’s “Maryland” works as a heartpounding home invasion thriller, it’s also a meditation on trauma, paranoia, class, and unfulfilled desire. …
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Director 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 …
Wiseman talks making In Jackson Heights
Master documentarian Frederick Wiseman discusses his editing process and how this informs how he shot In Jackson Heights.To access this post, you must purchase …
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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 …
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Please Like Me gets even better in season 3
Here in the third season, we get the sense that everything’s going to be OK — Josh, Tom, and Alan even repeat this mantra in unison — even if there are more …
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Jafar Panahi’s Taxi is an absorbing day out in Tehran
As Jafar picks up passengers, meets friends, and runs into others, key political and economic issues get discussed. The film feels realistic, much like the …
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