Film
The unpleasantness of the film’s first sex scene turns out to be a foreshadowing of a refreshingly curdled vision of insecurity in the 21st century.
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In her debut feature, music video director Jacqueline Castel supplies a moody and explicitly queer spin on the metaphor of monster as a maligned queer subject.
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Four reviews of films about existence — past and present — for the marginalized in Scandinavia.
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Reviews of three dark films that probe the crisis of authority, immigration, and feminism in Europe
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The vicious, virtual, voyeuristic, and vicarious are on view at this year’s Camden International Film Festival.
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Reviews of three films at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival that draw connections between class, violence, and politics.
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Though the images are half a century old, the chaos, treachery, and courage recorded bear a chilling relevance to circumstances today in our country and in democracies around the world as right-wing efforts to overturn democratically elected governments proliferate.
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Cinephiles revere a group of movies, known as the Ranown cycle, that starred Randolph Scott and were cannily directed by Budd Boetticher.
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“The Mother and the Whore” is a film about failure: its characters are pushed towards misery not only by their own flaws, but by the failure of the ‘60s to deliver a promised revolution.
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Arts Commentary: Chile’s 9/11 — the Undying and the Undead
Two Chilean artists look at the death of democracy and the aftermath of the 1973 coup.
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