Film
If a truly trans cinema canon is to exist, then it must reclaim authorship over how trans people and narratives are represented on screen by giving trans artists the means and opportunity to create a cinema of their own.
The spirit of Frederick Wiseman lives on at the IFFBoston.
Tim Jackson’s documentary takes a compelling look at Mason Daring & Jeanie Stahl’s drama-free half-century.
This year’s Independent Film Festival Boston kicks off this week, and it offers a grand selection of must-see indie films that set audiences free from the soulless product of corporate franchises.
A rigorously faithful “Stranger” that nonetheless reframes the novel’s moral center in worthy, modern ways.
A retrospective of four films by those two Hungarian artists unfolds as a monochromatic monolith of mud, misery, human folly, and inexorable corruption.
Kristoffer Borgli’s A24 feature flirts with social relevance but ends up exploiting a reality it refuses to confront.
Claude Lanzmann’s haunted pursuit of testimony and Henrietta Szold’s humanitarian legacy illuminate the enduring power of courage and conscience.
Faced with the bizarre evolution of John Lilly’s life and ideas, the directors were wise to refrain from sensationalism.
A pair of eminent lives — celebrated.
Arts Commentary: When Books Become Evidence — Hong Kong’s Raids and the New Global War on Dissent