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The Assistant
She lives in Astoria, but she works in the City. That means the company car picks her up long before the sun has a...
A woman’s work and a son’s obsession
There’s a bit of fairy
tale when it comes to Benedetta Barzini. As the story goes, it was 1963 when
Barzini was discovered on the streets...
The Midnight Family
Mexico City is home to 9 million souls, but the government operates fewer than 45 ambulances to aid them in times of need. To...
Cinema on the short side
In addition to the
praise and accolades each year’s Oscar nominations bring, there’s a fair amount
of teeth-gnashing and viewers crying foul. A stupid movie got...
The Rhythm Section
As the Confucian proverb
goes: “Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.”
Unfortunately for Stephanie Patrick (Blake Lively), she’s going to need...
In memoriam: Anna Karina
No one face embodied the
French New Wave more than that of Anna Karina. Born Hanne Karin Bayer in
Denmark in 1940, Karina made her way...
The Medicine
The sages call it by many names: yagé, ambiwaska, aioasca, but most know it as ayahuasca: a hallucinogenic brew drunk during a spiritual ceremony....
A journey across French cinema
When François Truffaut
penned his revolutionary essay, “A Certain Tendency in French Cinema,” the
up-and-coming critic laid waste to what he saw as a national tradition...
The shame of a nation
The year was 1978, and
China’s future did not look promising. The country had survived wars,
depression and famine, plus a cultural revolution was taxing the...
Just Mercy
Monroeville, Alabama,
1987: A man is condemned to death for a crime he did not commit. Do you need to
know the color of his skin,...
Now we are 63
In 1964, Britain’s
Granada Television charged researcher Michael Apted to select 14 7-year-olds
from disparate backgrounds for the documentary program, Seven
Up! Their aim: to get a...
