Movies
Two Women: ‘The Assistant’ and ‘Never Rarely Sometimes Always’
December 23, 2020Seventeen-year-old Autumn is pregnant. When she goes to a crisis pregnancy center, she is shown an anti-abortion video and steered toward having the baby. With no resources and desperate to keep her plight secret from her...
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‘Donbass’: The ‘People’s Republic of Donetsk’ and more in the Wild East
November 23, 2020Press notes and critics observe that Donbass contains commentary on disinformation, propaganda and has an Orwellian outlook regarding our “post-truth” age of “alternative facts.”
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Features from Iran at 2020 Toronto International Film Festival
November 4, 2020Many critics rate Iranian cinema as one of the most significant artistically, comparable to the classic Italian neorealist movement.
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‘Capital in the Twenty-First Century’: Film popularizes Thomas Piketty’s work
April 30, 2020The latest May Day movie release...playing at a sofa near you.
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‘Parásitos’, ¿cine político?
February 10, 2020Parásitos se ha proclamado como la gran vencedora de los Premios Oscars del 2020, al ganarr los lauros más importantes: el de Mejor director para Bong Joon-ho, Mejor Guión Original, Mejor Película Internacional y Mejor Películ.
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