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This Woman
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Directed by Alan Zhang | 91 mins | 2023
Feminist activist and multihyphenate artist Zhang’s directorial debut is a raw, often revelatory docufiction experiment that follows Beibei (Li Hehe), a recently unemployed 35-year-old woman who, in the early months of the pandemic, finds solace from an unf... -
Daughter of Water: the Films of Khady Sylla
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The Dakar-born Sylla, who died at age 50 in 2013, packed an extraordinary amount of activity into a tragically truncated life: she was an author of novels and short stories before beginning in earnest her engagement with cinema, an intimate of filmmakers Ousmane Sembène and Jean Rouch, a student ...
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Three by Terence Davies
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The dearly departed Terence Davies, who left us in 2023, spent a career making incandescent masterpieces such as "Distant Voices, Still Lives" (1988), "The Long Day Closes" (1992), and "The Deep Blue Sea" (2011), films that took his memories of post-war Britain and transformed them into works of ...
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Pride on Metrograph At Home
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Summer is coming on fast, and with it comes Pride Month, a celebration of the LGBTQ+ community that began in the wake of the Stonewall Uprising of 1969 and has continued (and grown) ever since. Metrograph At Home has drummed up a parade of brazenly queer cinema from the likes of Alain Guiraudie, ...
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Plympton's Twisted Toons
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Awarded by the Academy and the Festival de Cannes, a staple of "Spike & Mike’s Festival of Animation" programs, guest couch gag contributor on "The Simpsons," and a fiercely independent artist, one-man industry Bill Plympton is the American underground animator par excellence, his meticulously ha...
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The Paperboy
Directed by Lee Daniels | 107 mins | 2012
Each shedding their actorly comfort zones, stars Matthew McConnaughey, Zac Efron, Nicole Kidman and John Cusack strike out for the Florida swamps in this heady and lurid sixties-set noir. They orbit an alleged murder by Cusack’s rough-hewn alligator hunte...