The 2017 AFI DOCS Short Films
By Gary M. Kramer. The short documentary films at this year’s AFI DOCS ranged from the political to the personal. The political shorts were part of the festival’s “World Views&[…]
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An Appreciation of Call Me By Your Name
By Zhuo-Ning Su. Films are lives imagined, projected, simulated. When the play-pretend is effective and the make-believe works, we can hope to lose ourselves in a staged reality that convincingly reflects our […]
Film Scratches: New York Subways as Therapy – Participate in My Relaxed State (2016)
Film Scratches focuses on the world of experimental and avant-garde film, especially as practiced by individual artists. It features a mixture of reviews, interviews, and essays. A Review by David Finkelstein. Halley (Megan Clement) […]
Documenting Post-Millennial Teens: All This Panic
By Kate Hearst. With an artful lens, All This Panic captures the awkward and fleeting stage of teenagers on the cusp of young adulthood. Over the course of three years, Brooklyn-based wife and husband […]
You Can’t Keep Quiet Anymore: Atomic Homefront
By Elias Savada. If you’re not screaming mad by the end of Atomic Homefront, you obviously believe the system works. As a study in government failure and corporate greed, this HBO-supported documentary […]
No Future: Ghost World (Criterion Collection)
By Christopher Sharrett. I should say at the outset that my thoughts about the social-political vision (or failure thereof) of Terry Zwigoff’s Ghost World are dependent on the fine work of Henry […]
Auteur as Raconteur: Director’s Cut by Ted Kotcheff, with Josh Young
A Book Review by Irv Slifkin. Who would have figured the Canadian director of such diverse films as The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (1974), North Dallas Forty (1979), and First Blood (1982) would be such […]
Tiden är inne för utomhusbio
Utomhusbio trendar, men hur påverkas filmupplevelsen när den svarta kuben ersätts av stimmiga torg eller öppna landskap? Patrik Sjöberg skriver om att se på film med vinden i håret.
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Vakna med The handmaid’s tale
Vad krävs för att vi ska vakna till den värld som kan trilla utför ett stup redan imorgon? Mikaela Kindblom drabbas av The handmaid’s tale.
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Bildskön skildring från pojklandet i Heartstone
Det finns mer än ett sätt att vara pojke och bli man på. Malena Janson välkomnar en isländsk coming-of-age-film.
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