Film

Out in the Night

Black Women Vilified as a ‘Lesbian Wolf Pack’ Speak for Themselves in a New Film Black Women Vilified as a ‘Lesbian Wolf Pack’ Speak for Themselves in a New Film

Out in the Night tells the story of the New Jersey Four, women who faced felony charges after defending themselves against an attacker.

Jul 2, 2015 / Dani McClain

The Fierce Urgency of Nina Simone Now

The Fierce Urgency of Nina Simone Now The Fierce Urgency of Nina Simone Now

Perhaps her real audience was not her contemporaries in the civil rights generation, but their grandchildren.

Jul 2, 2015 / Syreeta McFadden

The Civil War in Syria Is Invisible—but This Anonymous Film Collective Is Changing That

The Civil War in Syria Is Invisible—but This Anonymous Film Collective Is Changing That The Civil War in Syria Is Invisible—but This Anonymous Film Collective Is Changing That

Abounaddara has been chronicling the hidden moments of the war, week after week.

Jun 29, 2015 / Moustafa Bayoumi

Katharine Hepburn, circa 1940

June 29, 2003: Katharine Hepburn Dies June 29, 2003: Katharine Hepburn Dies

"She acquired a reputation upon the smallest of down payments and then, like the honest debtor she is, set about the unpleasant business of earning the fame she already enjoyed."

Jun 29, 2015 / Richard Kreitner

Henry Wallace Nation Security Forum

New Documentary Series Calls Out the Militarization of US Society New Documentary Series Calls Out the Militarization of US Society

The theme of alternative foreign policy and national security possibilities is what animates an ambitious new project from our friends at Brave New Films.

Jun 19, 2015 / Peter Rothberg

Don Draper Meditates

Our Mad Worlds Our Mad Worlds

We feel something has ended but nothing has begun. Perfect harmony is a magical, effervescent bubble.

Jun 19, 2015 / Joshua Clover

Still image from Me and Earl and the Dying Girl

Strange Worlds Strange Worlds

Maybe action movies, like youth itself, are wasted on the young.

Jun 17, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans

Finding Nearly Forgotten Music

Finding Nearly Forgotten Music Finding Nearly Forgotten Music

Why the musician and filmmaker John Cohen still thinks that true objectivity is an elusive beast.

Jun 2, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Joanna Pocock

Choose Your Misery

Choose Your Misery Choose Your Misery

On Ex Machina and Andrew Bujalski’s Results

May 19, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans

‘Good Kill’: Drone Pilots Get PTSD, Civilians Die Nameless

‘Good Kill’: Drone Pilots Get PTSD, Civilians Die Nameless ‘Good Kill’: Drone Pilots Get PTSD, Civilians Die Nameless

A new movie from Andrew Niccol stars Ethan Hawke as a pilot fighting terrorists from the ’burbs of Las Vegas.

May 15, 2015 / Ali Gharib

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