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On the road

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When Agnès Varda died March 29, 2019, at the age of 90, cinema lost a titan. Varda’s first film, La Pointe Courte, (about an...

‘Hockney’ takes a look inside the mind of a painter

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I’m interested in ways of looking, and trying to think of it in simple ways,” David Hockney says. “Everybody does look, it’s a question...

Best in show

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The Boulder International Film Festival is the cherry on top for a town with an already-impressive film scene. Throw in some big stars, up-and-coming filmmakers, foreign favorites and fascinating documentaries and you’ve got the perfect weekend for a cinephile. Here’...

How do you see the world?

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A father is sick and the son is beckoned to his side. While the son waits for his father to die, he meets another wayward...

Topple the patriarchy

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Sex in cinema is a complex thing. Depicting something so private, yet so routine, with taste and titillation at the same time has been...

A Hidden Life

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Franz Jägerstätter’s arm would not rise. It couldn’t, not for Der Führer or any man, for that matter. His life belonged to the Lord....

Rainbow

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Celebrating Judy Garland’s centenary 

Something to do with death

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No matter how corrupt, greedy, and heartless our government, our corporations, our media, and our religious and charitable institutions may become, the music will...

Twenty feet from stardom, a million miles from sanity

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Like most love stories, this one begins at the movies. London, 1971: A young actor goes to see the latest release, A Clockwork Orange,...

‘Havana Curveball’ isn’t just about baseball

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"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...

Beyond notorious

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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...

Beyond Eurocentric and Hollywood cinema

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“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...