America’s Largest Documentary Festival – Nov. 8-26
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New York Film Festival September 29–October 13
Film at Lincoln Center knows its audiences. Christian Petzold’s Afire (2023), a German drama of wildfires setting an entire forest…
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Off-Courts Trouville: Celebrating Short Films and Emerging Filmmakers
Just two hours by train from Paris, the twin seaside towns of Deauville and Trouville come alive every early September…
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Making the image: A lesbian photographer’s journey with time
Joan “JEB” E. Biren’s identity as a photographer was not born from passion, but out of deep necessity to see…
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The Crucible of Girlhood: Recontextualizing Teen Girls on Broadway
Teenage girls and the Broadway stage rarely walk hand-in-hand. Even in instances where teen girls are written into stories, they’re…
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Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey” and Hollywood’s lack of Mediterranean representation
Greek culture, especially its mythology, is undoubtedly one of the most famously adapted traditions in narrative storytelling and popular media. From film and television to modern literature, Greek mythology has garnered colossal amounts of recognition and cultural resonance amongst various audiences. But are these adaptations correct and truthful to the original myth? And, more importantly, how much does Hollywood, as a powerful cultural institution in its own right, influence these Greek cultural elements?
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‘Die My Love’: The Domestic Politics of Sex, Gestural Cinema and Rock & Roll, Baby!
CANNES — If you, like me, have a soft spot for “character acting,” John Prine and a general partiality for films that make you itch just looking at them, Lynne Ramsay’s “Die My Love” might just emerge from Cannes as your perfect darling. Granted, in the world I live in, you can get away with anything if you make enough Nick Lowe references. God help the beast in me…
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Emma Elliott: The connection between her music, her audience, and her roots
Emma Elliott is a second-year business of creative enterprises major at Emerson College — but also so much more. Elliott is a singer and songwriter who began her music journey doing musical theatre. Three years ago, she started writing music.
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Otosan – Lonely Lord: Hikikomori, Posthumanism and the Early Works of Aphex Twin
Hikikomori: a middle-class Japanese youth withdrawn from social conventions; engages in all social interaction via computers. The 1990s and early…
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Staff Picks: Summer Movies
The Independent Magazine wishes you a very happy last weekend of summer! In the spirit of summer’s end, we looked…
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Motion Pictures of Cannes
What I Learned As a Filmmaker, Journalist, and Creative at Cannes Film Festival.
