Tag: Film

Articles tagged with film

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Joy James

The Other Toni Morrison

A timely new documentary celebrates Morrison’s novels, but downplays the enduring power of her work as an editor and essayist.

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Ed Pavlić

Aretha Franklin’s Soul

‘Amazing Grace,’ the long-lost film of Franklin’s gospel album, offers a lesson in the deep connections between gospel and soul music.

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Rosie Gillies

Our Best Film Writing for Oscars Weekend

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Mark Bould

Monsters vs. Empire

Trump’s Space Force is a bad reboot of the old imperial fantasy of control from above.

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Robin D. G. Kelley

Sorry, Not Sorry

Boots Riley's new film roasts racial capitalism and issues an unapologetic call for revolution.

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Errol Morris Deborah Chasman

Errol Morris on Steve Bannon’s Dangerous ‘Dharma’

Morris on his new film and what he thinks of the man who likened himself to Darth Vader and Satan.

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Francey Russell

Haneke and the Technology of Intimacy

‘Happy End’ is the culmination of Haneke’s obsession with how technology mediates our desires.

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Christopher Lebron

Black Panther Is Not the Movie We Deserve

Black Panther, a movie unique for its Black star power, depends on a shocking devaluation of Black American men.

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Mark Bould

Dulltopia

The monotony of slow cinema defamiliarizes our world and enables us to see it critically.

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Jonathan Kirshner

The Obsessions of Hitchcock, Welles, and Kubrick

A new book takes on the titans of twentieth-century cinema, fetishes and all.

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