Characters Disappearing A half-hour into Connor Sen Warnick’s Characters Disappearing, left-wing revolutionary Mei (Yuka Murakami) hangs up a poster declaring “The East is Red.” Until that point, the film seems …
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A long-lost interview with John Lennon, rediscovered in a basement by the young DJ who conducted it 50 years ago and in which the former Beatle speaks of fears the …
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Francis Ford Coppola on the set of Megalopolis in Megadoc Megalopolis’s reputation preceded the film itself long before its première iat last year’s Cannes Film Festival. As Francis Ford Coppola’s …
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Twinless Writer-director James Sweeney can’t pinpoint the exact time when he learned about the uniquely complex notion of twin loss and bereavement. But he can clearly recall what resonated with …
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Behind Scenes
In Memoriam, An Interview with the Late Documentary Filmmaker Joel DeMott and her partner, Jeff Kreines
Photo: Jeff Kreines In my recent Filmmaker conversation with Julia Loktev about the making of her monumental documentary, My Undesirable Friends, I cited the work of the late documentary filmmaker …
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White Snail, the new movie from directors Elsa Kremser and Levin Peter (Space Dogs), took 10 years to conceive and shoot. Snail’s pace, so to speak! After its world premiere in …
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You know the multitalented Sunita Mani from Glow, Spirited, Mr. Robot, or Save Yourselves! And now, just this year, she has roles in so many projects (like The Wild, Death …
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“Sly Lives! (aka The Burden of Black Genius)” road tests a theory that its director, Ahmir Questlove Thompson, has had for a while, and that’s articulated in the Hulu documentary …
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Weapons When cinematographer Larkin Seiple finished the Apple+ feature Wolfs, he was set on taking a well-deserved break. It was going to take a special project to coax him back …
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There’s a moment about midway through the Netflix film “Night Always Comes,” where the energy shifts. Which is not to say that the story — a hardscrabble part-time student, part-time …