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Leave only memories; take only pictures
Images hold a very special place in the mind of the viewer. Simultaneously of one time and timeless, objective and subjective, images bring forth textures and dimensions often lost in memory that can reduce the complex into simplistic categories of black and white...
Ushering in a great era film
Last weekend in an epic mix-up of Steve Harvey proportions, underdog Moonlight triumphed over the season’s darling La La Land to win best picture...
Voice to the voiceless
Has decency become a sin?” Ibrahima Dieng cries. On his knees, Ibrahima holds out his empty hands in mock offering. The world has stripped...
Children of the night
The fictional oil town of Bad City, Iran is, as far as we know, populated with pimps, prostitutes, drug dealers, drug users, a stray family member or two, a cat and The Girl (Sheila Vand). Casting a menacing shadow over this ghost town, The Girl rides a skateboard, ...
Home Viewing: ‘Cameraperson’
For more than 30 years, Kirsten Johnson has seen the world from behind the camera.
“ taught me to be quiet,” she says. “To wait...
Best in show
If it’s not a labor of love, then it’s a labor of something,” Errol Morris said, drawing a laugh from the Friday morning audience....
Object of my Affleck-tion
It’s easy to thrill people when they don’t know what’s coming. OK, maybe not easy — paging Mr. Shyamalan — but certainly less difficult than whipping up tension in a film based on a decades-old actual incident, the resolution of which is but a Google search away. ...
Part of me, part of you
The women are on the run. One is a sheltered housewife married to a pig of a man. The other is a waitress hiding...
Class warfare wedding
So few ensemble-driven African- American films make it to market — whether with familiar faces or unknowns — that the ones that do get out of the gate provoke a weird degree of scrutiny regarding what they have to say about the black experience. Who needs the ...
Comedians review reels of forgotten treasure
Nick Prueher would never wish his career on anyone...

















