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“Archive” sprung from Sofia Coppola’s desire to record what her mind’s organized chaos says about her and her films.
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What makes Marriage Story unbalanced and faintly dishonest is that we end up rooting for the clueless male egomaniac.
Read MoreThe trippiness, the nudge regarding unused powers, regarding vision, regarding the potential of our minds, are the best parts of Lucy.
Read MoreTwo new films take a poetic and fantastical look at the artifice of sensual surfaces to imagine the horrific realities beneath.
Read MoreIs “Her” exploring truths about romance and emotional need? Or is this a creepy look into how far we’ve surrendered to the infantilizing embrace of technology?
Read MoreWoody Allen’s freshest and most potent film in years manages to be much more than an erotic thriller. By Betsy Sherman Woody Allen’s cinema of the past 10 years has been one of quaint fetishes. True, his passion for early jazz resulted in the hilarious “Sweet and Lowdown,” but aside from that movie and the…
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Film Anniversary: From Punchline to Plausibility — The 50-Year Transformation of “Soylent Green”