Essay
Alice Diop’s Looking Glass Subjects
On subversive intimacy in the debut feature from the French Senegalese filmmaker.
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documentary
Essay
Portrait, Landscape
Essay [wpbb post:title] By Ed Halter On the boundary-blurring portraits of artist-filmmaker Luke Fowler. Our Luke Fowler series plays at Metrograph until Sunday, February 6. Luke Fowler When does a picture of someone become a portrait? The quality of likeness, the transmission of information alone, isn’t sufficient; if that were so, nearly every snapshot would…
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Discovering James Blue
Essay [wpbb post:title] By Giovanni Marchini Camia An introduction to the deeply engagé filmmaker and his pioneering works. Our series Citizen Blue screens at Metrograph through January 27 and At Home through February 3. Citizen Blue (2017) “Film can be an art, yes. But it also covers a much wider domain, from social sciences to the…
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Q&A
Sergei Losnitza’s Top 10
Essay
Reverse Shot on Djibril Diop Mambéty:
Things Unseen
Djibril Diop Mambéty in Ninki Nanka, the Prince of Colobane Essay [wpbb post:title] By Boukary Sawadogo Laurence Gavron’s insightful documentary Ninki Nanka, The Prince of Colobane closely observes the celebrated director during the making of his final feature, Hyenas. Mambéty & Gavron “In the local artistic community, Djibril is seen as a visionary. If you…
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Attention Must Be Paid
City Hall Essay [wpbb post:title] By Rebecca Panovka Today, Frederick Wiseman’s films play like reminders of all the mundane, uncinematic elements of daily life we’ve been missing throughout the pandemic. Frederick Wiseman. Photo by John Ewing, courtesy of Zipporah Films Imagine, for a moment, you’re at an in-person meeting. It’s tedious and in your opinion…
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Interview
Claire Atherton
Essay
Beyond Bronxspoitation
Essay BEYOND BRONXSPLOITATION By Kazembe Balagun A look at Decade of Fire, a documentary that provides an essential community-driven narrative to the Bronx arson crisis of the 1970s. Photo: © 1980 Perla de Leon Film directors Vivian Vázquez Irizarry and Gretchen Hildebran have the good sense to know that movements move forward by looking backwards. That’s…
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Robert Kramer: Cinema/Politics/Community
Essay [wpbb post:title] By DAVID FRESKO With fellow travelers or on his own, the maverick filmmaker traversed national and formal boundaries to bring his radical politics to the screen. The Edge It is perhaps not so surprising a contradiction that Robert Kramer (1939-1999), the most politically committed American-born filmmaker to come on the scene in…
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Movie Prom Highs and Lows
Essay [wpbb post:title] By Laura Kern Docs like Midnight in Paris present joyful takes on the high-school tradition, while fiction films often reveal another side. The World’s Best Prom For many teenagers, the senior prom represents a period of heightened anxiety at a particularly fraught time of life. There are the damaging self-esteem issues that go along…
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The Collective Creation of Christopher’s Movie Matinee
© National Film Board of Canada Essay [wpbb post:title] By JOSÉ TEODORO How a director turned the reins of a documentary made at the height of the late-’60s counterculture movement over to a group of Toronto youth eager to tell their own story. The unruly adolescents have chunky glasses, handsome sandals, bad skin, questionable facial…
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Roberta Cantow’s Intimate NYC Portraits
Essay Roberta Cantow’s IntimateNYC Portraits By Nellie Killian Examining love and labor in two of the award-winning director’s short works. Clotheslines screens at Metrograph December 11, together with Lizzie Olesker and Lynne Sachs’s The Washing Society. Roberta Cantow A look inside the world of an isolated man and his cat, women talking about the drudgery…
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