Culture
Documentary ‘Hopper/Welles’: When ‘Easy Rider’ met ‘Citizen Kane’
October 29, 2020The documentary Hopper/Welles, which screened at the 34th annual AFI Fest, is to film history what 1989’s When Harry Met Sally is to romcoms.
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Modern-day China through Chinese eyes: reviews from Toronto International Film Festival
October 28, 2020U.S. relations with China are possibly at an all-time low, although Washington has opposed the government since the victory of the Chinese Communist Party in 1949.
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‘My Psychedelic Love Story’: A flashback down memory lane to meet Timothy Leary
October 27, 2020Morris’s cinematic sensibility meshes well with Leary’s psychedelic psyche.
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LGBTQ, homelessness, family, prison at 2020 Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival
October 26, 2020In what is likely my final report from this year’s Festival, here are more capsule reviews of short films from Hawaii being screened at the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival, which is taking place through...
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Philadelphia’s MOVE and Black political culture on film at TIFF
October 26, 2020It wouldn’t be incorrect to compare much of what we learn about the history of MOVE to current struggles for social justice.
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