Fahrenheit 9/11: When a Documentary Already Knows the Answer
I think the best documentaries end up going places they don't expect, whereas Fahrenheit 9/11 feels methodically calculated from beginning to end
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Reviews, criticism and dispatches on international and independent cinema.
The Writer in the Kitchen
Tony makes for an entertaining Bourdain biopic, while leaving its sweetest irony unexplored.
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Minding the Gap: The Introvert Behind the Camera
Through three intertwined lives in Rockford, Bing Liu’s Minding the Gap examines how violence and masculinity pass between generations, and how filmmaking can become a way of confronting that inheritance.
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A Life Outside God's Plan
Watching The Last Temptation of Christ with Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey on my mind.
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Cannes - 3 Months On
Three months after Cannes, the films that dominated the Croisette are beginning to find their place in the U.S. film landscape.
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After Aftersun
Three years after Charlotte Wells’ watershed debut, a new wave of filmmakers is abandoning the mechanics of the flashback to let memory behave like memory.
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Minotaur: The Coldest Film at Cannes
Andrey Zvyagintsev's Grand Prix winner is a masterclass in precision, restraint and trust.
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