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Home Viewing: ‘Homeland of Electricity’
On Tuesday, Oct. 20, TCM’s Women Make Film series continues with episode eight of Mark Cousins’ docuseries Women Make Film: A New Road Film...
Beyond notorious
RBG, the latest documentary from Julie Cohen and Betsy West, opens with images of Washington D.C. accompanied by sound bites from conservative talk radio...
A nation of two and L.A. on my mind
Nothing else matters when you’re in love. People come and go, jobs come and go, the world turns, but none of that sticks. Not...
All work and no play…
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference. —Robert Frost
Buster (Rami...
The power of the real
There is no shortage of ways to celebrate National Hispanic Heritage Month — observed from Sept. 15 to Oct. 15 — in the Centennial...
Beyond Eurocentric and Hollywood cinema
“What I’m trying to do is theorize a way to create a brand new Black cinema,” Skinner Myers says. “Like a new Black cinematic...
A lesserknown masterpiece
Every decade, the British Film Institute conducts its Sight and Sound poll of the Greatest Movies Ever Made. In 2012, the top two films were familiar: Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo and Orson Welles’ Citizen Kane, but third was a dark horse: Yasujirô Ozu’s 1953 ...
‘Havana Curveball’ isn’t just about baseball
"Not to sound cliché, but it’s my generation’s job to mop up whatever you guys did to fuck it up,” says teenage Mica Jarmel-Schneider...
Soulless cinema
To Disney, from the desk of Mufasa: “Remember who you are.”
The Lion King, Disney’s latest computer-generated remake, isn’t like the rest. Yes, the story...
Step into the story
At last year’s Starz Denver Film Festival, I entered a theater playing the movie Grigris with no knowledge of what it was about, who made it, what country it came from or anything other than it was screening and I was free. Grigris — a joint production between Chad ...


















