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There Are a Deluge of Feminist Films Screening in NYC This Month
Not one woman was nominated for Best Director in the 2019 Academy Awards. But this month many festivals in…
Astra Taylor’s ‘What is Democracy?’ Offers No Simple Answers
Winston Churchill famously said, “democracy is the worst form of government except for all those other forms that have…
‘¡Las Sandinistas!’: A Revolution Remembered
Las Sandinistas, a new feature-length documentary film that examines the Nicaraguan revolution of the 1980’s, arrives in theaters at…
Coming Out On the Field: ‘Mario’ Confronts Taboo in Men’s Sports
After premiering to acclaim in Europe, Mario — a moving coming-of-age tale of love, homoeroticism and repression within the…
The Past Comes Alive with Frightening Results in John Carpenter’s ‘The Fog’
Antonio Bay is a small town with a big problem. It seems the California fishing village was founded on…
Michael Moore’s ‘Fahrenheit 11/9’: A Call to Challenge American Despotism
“How the fuck did this happen?” is the question Michael Moore lobs at us as he concludes the first…
New Eugene Debs Film Does the Socialist Proud
A charismatic and militant labor leader, five-time Socialist Party presidential candidate, class-war prisoner jailed by the ostensibly liberal Woodrow…
Fear and Loathing at the Tribeca Film Festival
I’m sitting in a press screening for The Miseducation of Cameron Post at the Tribeca Film Festival and I…
Lou Andreas-Salomé vs. The Patriarchy
The German philosopher insisted on being the master of her own fate even as she inflamed the hearts and minds of some of the late 19th Century’s greatest thinkers.