Peter Keough
Doc Talk: The Newburyport Documentary Film Festival — One of the Strongholds for the First Amendment
As other outlets for reporting and investigating the truth are persecuted or succumb to pressure, the role of independent documentary filmmaking grows more urgent and vital.
Several films in this year’s festival explore the nature of dreams and the people who are driven by them.
This alternately ecstatic and murky, pointed and obscure, allegory is a rare attempt to confront the pathological systems leading us to an uncertain fate.
There’s bad news and good news at the Woods Hole Film Festival.
The Museum of Fine Arts screens some ripples from the New Wave.
In her new documentary about the crises in Brazilian democracy, Petra Costa examines a factor involved in the election of Jair Bolsonaro that was largely overlooked in the first film — the toxic power of the evangelical movement.
This is an auspicious feature debut, a doomsday thriller that touches on resonant topical issues.

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