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    INTERVIEW : Barak Goodman on his PBS documentary about George W. Bush

    George W. Bush left office over a decade ago, with his eight years as president long been consigned to the provenance of historians. However one might have felt about the 43rd president at the time of his administration, it was time to give those eight years of the first decade of the new millennium a second look.

    “‘American Experience’ is very clever because they time these things so that enough time has gone by so that it really is ‘history’

    May 5, 2020
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    “True History of the Kelly Gang,” a defiantly vicious, one-man rogue’s gallery of style and substance

    Being historically accurate in film is tough. Dramatic license is […]

    May 4, 2020
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    PREVIEW: “The Vast of the Night”

    In the twilight of the fifties, on one fateful night in New Mexico, a young winsome switchboard operator Fay (played by Sierra McCormick) and a charismatic radio DJ Everett (Jake Horowitz) discover a strange audio frequency that could change their small town and the future forever. Dropped phone calls, AM radio signals, secret reels of tape forgotten in a library, switchboards, crossed patchlines and

    May 3, 2020
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    Alicia Malone: ‘Growing up in Australia, all films were foreign to me’

    Although home isolation maybe getting to some, this is the perfect time to catch up on some classic films and the network synonymous with those is Turner Classic Movies (TCM). Last month, I had the great pleasure of speaking with host, author and film historian Eddie Muller. I am happy to now bring Alicia Malone into the conversation. Malone has been engrossed in film from her early beginnings in Australia and has the

    May 1, 2020
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    In the era of the pandemic some dedicated film professionals move mountains to help hospital workers

    With the coronavirus pandemic having effectively shuttered production in the tri-state area of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut, some enterprising film industry veterans are redirecting the industry’s network and muscle to ensure that the populous area’s first responders are fed.

    Hospital and EMS workers have been pulling incredibly long and taxing shifts amid

    April 29, 2020
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    NEWS: Celine’s artistic director Hedi Slimane curates selection of films on Mubi

    Besides being passionate about music, Hedi Slimane (featured image) is also fascinated with cinema. The artistic director of Celine has teamed up with Mubi to offer up his own selection of cult films and Hollywood gold, a welcome respite from the daily grind from the couch to the fridge and then to the washer-dryer.

    Slimane's personal festival includes, "Pierrot Le Fou"

    April 28, 2020
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    TRIBECA SHORTS : “Query” (at first, it was a bromance, then it wasn’t)

    (in this series we present five short films slated for premiere at the 2020 Tribeca Film Festival)

    Co-writer/director Sophie Kargman’s "Query" was selected to world premiere at this year’s recently postponed Oscar-qualifying Tribeca Film Festival, which is due to be shown online in the coming months to select audiences. The film questions how heterosexuality is formed. It stars Justice

    April 1, 2024
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    TRIBECA SHORTS : Alejandra Parody’s “Gets good light”

    (in this series we present five short films selected by the 2020 Tribeca Film Festival)

    This is an important time in America. This country has always been blanketed under the hypocrisy of touting itself as the “land of the free” and one where “all men are created equal,” while our government creates policies and procedures to ensure that people of color and any minority

    April 1, 2024
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    TRIBECA SHORTS: Linhan Zhang’s “The Last Ferry from Grass Island”

    (in this series we present five short films selected by the 2020 Tribeca Film Festival)

    DESCRIPTION: Director Linhan Zhang’s film was shot during the Hong Kong protests and shares the story of a former Triad looking after his senile mother in a rustic village, when he is faced with being killed by his apprentice. This beautifully shot live action short film will receive its world premiere

    April 1, 2024
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    How the music uncorked the full artistic potential of William Friedkin’s “To live and die in L.A.”

    The eighties were a fruitful time for the fusion of films and pop music. Never was there a time when the pop charts and the weekly box-office complimented one another as often as they did then. It got to the point where a film’s popularity would sometimes depend on the success of its soundtrack. Eighties-era MTV was a willing participant in the crossover promotion of big Hollywood films, as a hit video from a film’s soundtrack

    April 21, 2020
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