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Even the most inspirational films about growing up in the inner-city have a tendency to look down on their subjects, portraying them as characters to be rescued or redeemed. But in Walter…
The family drama “Take Me Home” is a not an easy watch and (arguably harder than it needs to be). Yet, how could a film that takes such an intimate look at the fraying healthcare net…
“Give Me the Ball!,” the title of Liz Garbus and Elizabeth Wolff’s ferociously inspirational and entertaining documentary about Billie Jean King, refers to something that the fabled tennis…
Adam Meeks studied film at NYU’s Tisch School for the Arts, where one can imagine the true-to-his-roots filmmaker learning alongside eclectic classmates. Manhattan must have felt like a…
The photographer Cindy Sherman is no stranger to transformation, using wigs, costumes, makeup and props to change herself into different characters. This season Jun Takahashi, who in the…
When you’ve only lived for a decade, the next one stretches ahead of you like an apparent eternity. To the elders raising you, it goes by in the blink of an eye. Docmakers Itab Azzam and…
If cold-eyed American expansionism is the theme, there are few better representatives than the eleventh president. Source link
“The New Yorker at 100” is a nimble and infectious documentary, one that brings off a trick more challenging than it looks. (In that way, it’s a lot like the magazine.) In just 96 minutes,…
MILAN — Milan has now its own Rockefeller moment, courtesy of the Ferragamo family and their Portrait hotel. Part of Ferragamo’s Lungarno Collection hospitality business, the location has…
International documentary sales, distribution and production company Dogwoof has acquired international sales rights for “The Face of Power,” directed by Emmy and Grierson-winning…
In Vitaly Mansky’s arresting portrait of life during wartime, “Time to the Target,” he allows audiences to breathe, to absorb the smallest details and even, somehow, to laugh as his camera…
Coco Gauff, Aryna Sabalenka and the remaining top eight Women’s Tennis Association players in the world came together for a high-fashion photo session in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, ahead of the…
Is the primary audience for “Ozzy: No Escape From Now” metalheads … or caregivers? There’s not often a significant crossover audience there. But there’s no mistaking that the Paramount+…
The spotlight can be unforgiving — we live in a culture where society loves to elevate celebrities only to tear them down for the sheer thrill of doing so. In Netflix‘s newest docuseries,…
Ilenia Durazzi brought 19th-century oil paintings and Caravaggio’s chiaroscuro shades to life with a collection called “The Nymphs,” which was full of rock chick charm and masculine…
Along the White House’s West Wing Colonnade, portraits of every U.S. president since George Washington hang side-by-side in gilded frames. Every president, that is, except Joe Biden, whose…
At AmfAR Venezia, filmmaker Julian Schnabel accepted a tribute award from Jude Law before auctioning off a one-of-a-kind experience: The director and artist, at the Venice Film Festival to…
When does a gambling habit become a gambling problem? Is it when you’re down to your last wadded-up banknote, which you keep stuffed in your sock till all else has been spent? Or maybe…
The song “Spooky,” that catchy little anthem about being befuddled by love, plays twice in Jim Jarmusch‘s lovely triptych melancomedy “Father Mother Sister Brother.” Its laid-back, liquid…
Vesuvius — the very name sounds ancient, rhythmically mythical, so tied into tales of a destroyed past that one almost forgets it’s still very much in the ordinary, existing present. The…
Because the Russian alphabet has no direct equivalent of the letter “H,” speakers often substitute a “G” sound; “Harry Potter” thus becomes “Garry Potter.” We’re reminded of this funny…
Though long celebrated as one of our most versatile screen stars, four-time Academy Award nominee Willem Dafoe might not seem like the obvious choice to portray a swaggering, playboy…
G-PORTRAIT: Gucci’s fall 2025 ad campaign is a portrait portfolio, depicting 42 people and their unique attitudes. Called “The Gucci Portrait Series” and lensed by American photographer…
