David D'Arcy
“Parade”‘s power does not lie in its mystery or its revelations of combat. The work, as artist Si Lewen lays it out, surveys the absurd pomp and horror of war.
This is a tense morality play, with twists odd enough (and a palette dark enough) to sustain a noir-inflected thriller of almost two hours.
Watch “Five Broken Cameras” as “No Other Land” finds its way to festivals beyond Berlin. By then, the forced displacement of people in the West Bank will look gentle compared to the relentless siege of Gaza.
A Mexican director sets a British play in a Times Square restaurant and patients talk to their psychiatrists in Paris.
New cinematic mavericks have come along. All the more reason that the views of earlier rebels be collected and preserved, given the short historical memories of young filmmakers and their audiences.
At this year’s Sundance Film Festival, in the midst of the usual well-meaning social documentaries and “independent” celebrity tributes, some real cinematic ambition crept in.
Among the memorable films at Sundance 2024, a trio of music films led the way.
The disconnect between the Amsterdam of the past that is revisited and the scenes of life in the city today dramatize the fragility of memory and its erosion.
Three first-rate documentaries at DOC NYC that examine the crimes of the past and the fragility of the present.
This thoughtful documentary watches cinemas vanish from a Brazilian city.
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