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Barry Jenkins’ Moonlight Is True Art
Moonlight is a movie about what it’s like to grow up male in America. Moonlight is also a movie about what it’s like to grow up gay in America. And Moonlight is, in addition, a movie about what it’s like to grow up black in America. That inevitably makes Barry Jenkins’ justly acclaimed film sound […]
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Moonlight: Young, Gay, and Black in America
Barry Jenkins’ Acclaimed Film Is True Art
Barry Jenkins’ acclaimed film is true art.
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The Handmaiden Is a Gluttonous Feast for the Mind and Eye
The Handmaiden runs almost two and a half hours, but it’s stuffed with enough narrative twists and detail to fill a movie twice as long. It’s a gluttonous feast for the mind and the eye, not to mention a few other organs. In fact, the only real problem with the latest ravishing, demented effort from […]
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The Handmaiden’s Cruel Beauty
A Ravishing, Demented Effort from Park Chan-Wook
A ravishing, demented effort from Park Chan-Wook.
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In a Trump-Obsessed Time, Certain Women Is a Reminder Of How Radical It Can Be To Tell Stories About Women’s Lives
Director Kelly Reichardt’s Certain Women arrives in theaters at an oddly appropriate moment. As America gazes in disgusted fascination at the spectacle of a misogynistic boil being lanced on the most public of stages, Reichardt’s delicate but powerful triptych of Montana-set tales is a reminder of how quietly radical it can be to tell stories […]
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Kelly Reichardt’s Certain Women Arrives Just In Time
A Reminder Of How Quietly Radical It Can Be To Tell Stories About Women’s Lives
A reminder of how quietly radical it can be to tell stories about women’s lives.
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Despite Setbacks, The Birth of a Nation Has Lots of Potential Impact
THE BIRTH OF A NATION Now a property of the Fox conglomerate. It’s hard to know where to start talking about The Birth of a Nation. It’s hard to remember the last time a movie showed up with this much off-screen baggage, from its incendiary political relevance to its record-setting acquisition at Sundance to, of […]
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The Birth of a Nation Arrives Fraught with Baggage
Despite Setbacks, Nate Parker’s Controversial Film Still Has Lots of Potential Impact
Despite its setbacks, Nate Parker’s controversial film still has lots of potential impact.
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“Democracy Is the Theory That the Common People Know What They Want and Deserve to Get It Good and Hard.”
So there’s this competition-style reality show on. It’s the one that pits the bloviating, orange-haired pustule who spouts incoherent, racist free verse against a grandparent with the temerity to possess a vagina. The show asks America to make the agonizing decision: Which one’s worse? Well, according to several sources, this is no mere entertainment: In […]
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Print the Legend: Cinema, and Politics, at the NW Film Center
Politics Through the Ages—From A Face in the Crowd to Starship Troopers.
Politics through the ages—from A Face in the Crowd to Starship Troopers.
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Bright Past
John Sayles’ Gaze on Florida
Sunshine State dir. Sayles Opens Fri July 19 Fox Tower For a while there, Florida was all set to be the new California. What with Elian, sharks, hurricanes, Disney, and that little election bugaboo, it seemed like our peninsular pals were putting up with more than their share of weirdness, while also seeming to perfectly […]