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Who Are You, Polly Maggoo?
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Against Silence: All the Beauty and the Bloodshed, directed by Laura Poitras
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Beautiful Winners Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, A Journey, A Song
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Weed Killer Into the Weeds: Dewayne “Lee” Johnson vs. Monsanto Company
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Bad Luck Banging, Great Luck Filming
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Damage Control
Hemingway’s life was a dazzle and a disaster, replete with fame and glamour, three wars and three houses, a 38-foot custom-made fishing boat, bullfighting, big-game hunting, life-threatening accidents, several traumatic and permanent brain injuries, a string quartet of wives and three sons—everything fuelled, as the film tells us, by alcohol.
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Cinema Like the Music
Arthur Jafa’s unparalleled seven-and-a-half-minute-long video opens and closes with two kinds of Black hero.
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Andy, We Hardly Knew You
In his lifetime Andy Warhol took an inventive approach to the facts of his biography. At different times he claimed to have been born in 1929, 1930 and 1933; he even lied about his age to his doctor; and he changed his place of birth from Philadelphia to Newport, Rhode Island, and to Cleveland.
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Words About Pictures
In this suspicious and cynical time it is obligatory, in the interests of transparency, to admit to something referred to as “full disclosure.” Since I am a creature of my time, here is my admission: I am a print interview freak.
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The Best Damn Way to Write History “Mike Wallace Is Here,” directed by Avi Belkin
It takes four minutes and 14 seconds before the title of Avi Belkin’s brilliant documentary about legendary American journalist Mike Wallace finally turns up. That interval is a capsule of what the remaining 127 minutes will reveal: that Wallace’s 60-year-long career was more complicated than you could ever guess by simply watching the game-changing, compelling interviews he did on 60 Minutes, beginning in 1968 and continuing until his retirement 37 years later.
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The City of Mything Persons
The fiction connected to a myth is what makes it true. The myth attached to the Winnipeg Film Group (WFG) is that it is a magical place inside a freezing and isolated city that produces eccentric filmmakers and unique films.
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Angelic Order
Memory’s dark twin is forgetfulness. Because of its presence, history is often obliged to curl back on itself so that it can set in motion a different story. Chuck Smith’s 78-minute-long documentary on the place of Barbara Rubin in New York’s film and music underground in the 1960s is a film that puts memory so unequivocally back into the historical narrative, it is impossible to view the years from 1963 to 1968 in the way they had previously been presented.
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