It’s generally safe to assume that the films I endorse are films I enjoy. But once in a while, pleasure and purpose diverge, and I feel compelled to recommend a …
Isabelle Huppert’s Hot Streak Continues in Mia Hansen-Løve’s Character Study ‘Things to Come’
“Time marches on never ending/Time keeps its own time.” Those are the first lines of “Finally,” the best-known single by house-music producer Sandy Rivera, which I first heard in French …
The Public Cinema Launches New Microbudget Film Series With Docu-Fiction ‘Never Eat Alone’
Next week, the Public Cinema launches a new strain of programming they’re calling the Lab. With the series, Public Cinema programmers Paul Harrill and Darren Hughes intend to cast light …
Unconventional Documentary ‘Hotel Dallas’ Ponders J.R. Ewing, Eastern European Communism, and Memory Itself
In 1978, Dallas, one of the longest-running American primetime drams, premiered on CBS. The show became a hallmark of 1980s television, one of the most iconic of the era’s many …
Backward ‘Slash’: Coming-of-Age Flick Offers a Half-Hearted Defense of Fan Fiction
Few of the Internet’s many subcultures are as massive, or as misunderstood, as the slash-fiction community. Slash fiction is erotic fan fiction that pairs otherwise uninvolved fictional or historical characters: …
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