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‘Melvin Van Peebles: Essential Films’ is an essential set
He was a filmmaker, an actor, a novelist, a playwright, and a revolutionary. He made one of the most profitable and overlooked...
A world at odds with itself
Movies cry for help at the Toronto International Film Festival.
Alone, together
The Koreans call it holojok—a portmanteau of holo (alone) and jok (together)—a growing phenomenon of young adults choosing to live alone in single-family homes. By some estimates,...
The show must go on—Dispatches from the 48th Telluride Film Festival
There was no show last year; it was called on account of pandemic. Just as well: Wildfires all along the West draped...
Down these mean streets
I was gonna be a dancer. I was a brunette. Started on my toes and wound up on my heels.
See you on the other side
You don’t know it at first, but this is purgatory. Well, a way station might be a better description. Regardless, all the...
Can movies solve our problems?
On Jan. 1, 2020, Wuhan, China, welcomed a new year and a new decade. That same day, Chinese state media announced...
In the depths of the ash
Two men wait outside a church. They are armed and tasked with an assassination mission. The mark approaches, and the men...
‘We don’t get a lot of things to really care about’
Deep in the Oregonian woods, a man lives with his pig. He is a recluse with a past; she is a...
The art of the real
Screening Aug. 4-10, the Mimesis Documentary Festival (MDF) takes over the Dairy Arts Center’s cinemas for a simultaneous return and debut....
‘Moby-Dick’ on horseback
It should have been a classic. Major Dundee, a new kind of Western with Charlton Heston as the titular major. This was...
Reading cinema
They always say write the book that you want to read,” Brad Weismann says. “I was looking for a reference book...
