films
Cannes and COVID go together like a horse and carriage
July 22, 2021Another Cannes Film Festival is in the books and this one was beset with all the contemporary contradictions as the global crisis outran the global comeback.
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A man’s man: Tinseltown’s gay star lives again in ‘Taming the Lion’
July 13, 2021William Haines loved to act and make motion pictures. He also adored having sex with other men.
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Cannes 2021: The best lack conviction, the worst filled with passionate intensity
July 12, 2021This year the entire festival bureaucracy has moved online, which caused much initial chaos.
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The bombing of Cubana Flight 455: Interview with filmmaker Enrique Berumen
June 11, 2021On October 6, 1976, Cubana de Aviación Flight 455 was bombed by CIA-trained Cuban exiles. A new documentary is bringing the story to the world.
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‘Altitude Not Attitude’: A freewheeling, wheelchair bound-for-glory story on film
June 11, 2021For the first time since the COVID lockdown began, after about 15 months of streaming cinema online, your peripatetic film critic finally attended his first screening in person.
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