D.A. Pennebaker’s matchless 1970 documentary films the exhausting recording of a Broadway cast album, and captures the resilience of theater’s artistic spirit in the process.…
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‘Desert Hearts’ sets a burgeoning lesbian relationship amidst tropes of the western genre, using natural landscapes and transitory spaces as a backdrop for a romance unwelcomed by the 1950s setting.…
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‘Jaws’ celebrates its 45th anniversary in June 2020, yet its underlying class conflicts and economic insecurities remain as terrifying as ever.…
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In all their prickliness, pettiness, and imperfection, Nicole Holofcener’s films put complicated women at their center.…
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Andrew Patterson’s micro-budget debut featuring aliens in 1950s New Mexico injects the genre with enrapturing conversations and technical wonder.…
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Have a good hair day despite the quarantine with “Hair Pieces,” a Criterion Channel Short + Feature pairing of two films about hair salons and hairy situations.…
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In a perfectly quirky documentary interweaving family and LGBTQ+ history, Rachel Mason captures what her parents do for a living: run a hardcore gay porn bookstore.…
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Alan Yang's Netflix drama is a tender tale of immigration and lives and loves left behind.…
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Three decades after its pilot premiered, the strange landscape of 'Twin Peaks' beckons our return.…
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Michael Reich's semi-autobiographical tale of a dog groomer/aspiring moviemaker offers a bottomless supply of lo-fi bizarreness.…
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