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“The Fishing Place” Puts History Into the Present Tense
The best filmmakers, looking to the past, see the future. The Holocaust and the Nazi menace to Europe have been filmmakers’ mainstays for…
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Mourning David Lynch in a City on Fire
One night in January, 2002, during the initial theatrical run of David Lynch’s “Mulholland Drive,” a friend and I, students at the…
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Chinese films dodging censors have no place to go. Can they crack into Taiwan?
TAIPEI, Taiwan — When producer Wang Zijian was making the movie “Bel Ami,” or “Beautiful Friends,” he knew it had no chance of airing in…
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David Lynch’s (Possible) Realism
In his memoir, “Room to Dream,” from 2018, David Lynch recalled an idyllic time in his life. He was in his late twenties and had just…
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The 2025 Oscar Nominations and What Should Have Made the List
With the announcement of this year’s Oscar nominations, the members of the Academy have, in effect, responded to the natural and political…
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The Liberated Life of Colman Domingo
The last time I talked to Colman Domingo, in 2021, his life was completely different. At fifty-one, he was a successful character actor,…
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Filmmaker Tom Stern recounts losing home in Eaton fire: "Just gone"
Filmmaker Tom Stern says that the site of his Altadena, California, home now "looks like Hiroshima" after being destroyed by the ongoing…
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Who and What Should Be Nominated for the 2025 Oscars
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced on Wednesday that, because of the devastating wildfires raging in and around Los…
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“Babygirl” Never Really Makes a Mess
In November, the reality star and entrepreneur Kim Kardashian posted a series of images and videos to her social-media accounts, in which…
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“A Complete Unknown” Shears Off Vital Details in the Life of a Colossal, Complicated Artist
One doesn’t have to be a Dylanologist to know, or even to sense, that “A Complete Unknown,” which opens on December 25th, simplifies Bob…
Culture
The Best Films of 2024
The two most daring and accomplished American movies of the year are also, at first glance, the most dissimilar. RaMell Ross’s “Nickel…
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Remembering Kenneth Branagh’s Shakespearean Heyday (and Forgetting His Recent Lear)
So—a few weeks ago, I saw Kenneth Branagh in “King Lear” at the Shed. Maybe you did, too? It’s been a while, but I’ve been hesitating to…
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The Best Performances of 2024
Midway through the A24 film “Sing Sing,” Divine G, an incarcerated man played with poise and panache by Colman Domingo, appears before a…
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“Here,” Then and Now
Richard McGuire’s project has a fixed view, but it spans several decades and mediums. Source link
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“Emilia Pérez” Is an Incurious Musical About a Trans Drug Lord
The artifice of musicals and the exaggeration of melodrama derive their importance not as escapes from reality but as illuminations of it.…