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Contemporary Cinema
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1h 52m
Directed by Jem Cohen | 112 mins | 2015
The spirit of Chris Marker—a key artistic touchstone and a former correspondent of Cohen’s—is imbued in this travelog, with its slyly associative assemblage of globe-spanning images and its preponderance of cats. Sometimes veering lyrical, sometimes political, Cohen sutures together moments captured in the likes of Moscow, Istanbul, Sharjah, and his home of New York City, the diverse locations not always differentiated between.
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Dream Team
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Dry Ground Burning
Directed by Joana Pimenta and Adirley Queirós | 154 mins | 2022
In the Bolsonaro-era Brasilia of this incendiary two-hander—the second collaboration between directors Queirós and Pimenta—political resistance takes the form of an all-women gang who steal and refine oil before selling it on to bike...