Film
A 100-year-old novel provides the basis for some sumptuous moviegoing.
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Nature has long been a perennial topic for cinema and, given the escalation of the climate crisis, the environmental context of these three fine films feels particularly urgent and poignant.
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Has there ever been a better or more accurate film about young girls on the edge of adulthood testing out their sexuality?
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“How to Have Sex” doesn’t criticize teenage girls for wanting to get laid, but it points out how the cultural environment in which they do so is directed entirely towards male pleasure
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Three sure-handed debut movies at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, including a documentary directed by Lucy Lawless and features from Thea Hvistendahl and Jack Begert.
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Starring Mads Mikkelsen, “The Promised Land” is an opulent and moving period piece that captures a location and era rarely depicted on the big screen
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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.
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Bertrand Mandico’s “She is Conann” left me buzzing, high on a euphoria of aesthetic excess that represents the true legacy of New Queer Cinema.
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Screenwriter, film director, and novelist Charlie Kaufman tries to lighten up in “Orion and the Dark”.
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Among the memorable films at Sundance 2024, a trio of music films led the way.
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