There’s a man in a jacket fashioned out of large reflective sequins, a woman clad in black dancing in the desert, a sparsely populated nightclub in Los Angeles, a bare-knuckle fight to the death in a warehouse, and two lovers … Continue reading CARMEN
Some want to fit in; some want to stand out. Some want to raise healthy and happy babies; others crave financial security above all else. We all have goals, and teenager Ria Khan (Priya Kansara) wants to be a stuntwoman … Continue reading POLITE SOCIETY
With a tightly wound blond perm, a smoker’s pipe and a voice that registers just north of a whisper, Carl Nargle is one of the biggest draws on Burlington, Vermont public television. Broadcasting daily from 3 to 4 p.m., Carl … Continue reading PAINT
Albert Speer was Adolph Hitler’s ally and chief architect, but unlike Hermann Göring and Alfred Jodi, he was not sentenced to death at the Nuremberg trials. His excuse: He did not know about the crimes being committed—though he had no … Continue reading SPEER GOES TO HOLLYWOOD
Wanting for my happily-ever-after, I lowered my defenses, forgetting the first lesson I was taught: That I was brought into this world to be abandoned; that I am irrevocably alone. —Mary Shelley It’s been 200 years since the publication of Frankenstein; … Continue reading MARY SHELLEY
Lizzy is an artist. Her landlord is also an artist. So are her dad, mother, and colleagues at the Portland art and craft school where Lizzy works. Creation surrounds Lizzy in a way that feels wholly organic and so common … Continue reading SHOWING UP
Suzume Iwato is your typical 17-year-old Japanese girl, which means it’s up to her to save the world. One morning while on break between classes, Suzume and her friends’ cell phones all light up with earthquake warning messages. It’s not … Continue reading SUZUME (すずめの戸締まり)
If necessity is the mother of invention, then Inez de la Paz needs to invent a new life for herself and her little boy. Terry is 6 years old and drowning in the New York foster care system. Inez doesn’t … Continue reading A THOUSAND AND ONE
This half-documentary, half-narrative is constructed entirely from closed-circuit cameras—dash cams, security footage, red-light cameras, etc.—uploaded to a cloud service in 2013 and made available for anyone with time on their hands. But director Xu Bing doesn’t simply rely on observation; he … Continue reading DRAGONFLY EYES (蜻蜓之眼)
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