Although Alice Winocour’s Disorder works as a heartpounding home invasion thriller, it’s also a meditation on trauma, paranoia, class, and unfulfilled …
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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 it informed how he shot In Jackson Heights. This is an excerpt from the ebook In …
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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 depicts …
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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 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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