Film
As always, the New York Film Festival was a mix of art films that may never see general release with a few star-laden commercial movies angling for awards.
It’s hard to pick favorites, but here are my top films from this year’s London Film Festival.
Cinema at its best is a a place where seemingly irresolvable conflicts can find, if not resolution, then some common ground.
“The Zone of Interest” is a cinematic embodiment of Hannah Arendt’s famous phrase “the banality of evil.”
“Mami Wata” beautifully cracks open a world Western eyes either blatantly ignore or seldom get to experience on screen.
The first of three review round-ups from this year’s London Film Festival’s excellent slate of films.
“Archive” sprung from Sofia Coppola’s desire to record what her mind’s organized chaos says about her and her films.
This is a Strindbergian dance to the death between a powerful, accomplished woman and a husband tormented by his own sense of failure.
Werner Herzog likes the odds in “Every Man for Himself and God Against All.”
What happens when, through unwillingness or incapacity, memory is lost or forsaken? Two documentaries at the CineFest Latino Boston explore some answers.

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