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When the Camera Can’t Turn Away, These Women Force Us to Listen
Films as different as the biopic “Till” and the thriller “Resurrection” use lengthy monologues to give female characters the chance…
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World
To Buff a Balkan Leader’s Image, a Filmmaker Calls In Kevin Spacey
A director cast the beleaguered actor as Franjo Tudjman, the late Croatian leader, whom some call a patriot and others…
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It’s the End of an Era of Great European Cinema. Or Is It?
PARIS — So that’s the end of that. With the deaths of Jean-Luc Godard and Jean-Marie Straub this year, the…
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Style
Making Skate Films Into Art
William Strobeck brings rare intimacy to his skateboarding films. His latest, “Play Dead,” with Supreme, chronicles some of the sport’s…
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‘Babylon’: A Guide to the Characters and Their Real-Life Counterparts
The Damien Chazelle epic is set in 1920s Hollywood and draws on figures from that time, including “the ‘It’ Girl,”…
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World
Mike Hodges, Director Acclaimed for ‘Get Carter,’ Dies at 90
He was best known for complex crime dramas like “Croupier.” But he also made the big-budget 1980 science-fiction yarn “Flash…
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Stream These Three Great Documentaries
This month’s picks include a look at families coping with cancer, a filmmaker exploring some troubling family history and a…
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Inside the Oscars’ Best-Actress Battle Royal
Forget the men: A banner crop of leading ladies, including Michelle Yeoh and Cate Blanchett, rule the Oscars’ deepest and…
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‘Stars at Noon,’ ‘Vortex’ and More of This Year’s Streaming Gems
A look back at some of the finest under-the-radar streaming picks of the year.
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The Filmmaker Has Many Clothes
In “Outfitumentary,” the artist and filmmaker K8 Hardy documents more than a decade of her daily outfits, starting in 2001.…