Friday, Aug. 3The American Cinematheque will celebrate 3-D ? the film technique that came of age in the 1950s to lure viewers away from their TV sets ? over the nex
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More than one man has attempted to take credit for the successes of writer-director Barbara Loden's 1971 drama Wanda. After Loden's death from cancer in 1980, s
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Hollywood doesn't know what to do with Kate McKinnon, so The Spy Who Dumped Me was perhaps inevitable. After stealing scenes on the margins of Ghostbusters and Roug
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The music made by songwriter-composer Nico in the two decades after her brief association with The Velvet Underground tended toward drone and plod, toward a Teutoni
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Friday, July 27Kino Lorber's recent Kickstarter-funded initiative to restore key works by pioneering female filmmakers has inspired a weekend series at the Ameri
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Continuing their legacy of equally infuriating and enlightening documentaries, the producer-director team of Amy Ziering and Kirby Dick poke into the archaic and fu
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The too-easy shorthand description of legendary exploitation filmmaker Larry Cohen is that he's New York's answer to Roger Corman. The two share an affinity for the
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A reminder that quiet and subtle are not the same things, Marc Turtletaub's earnest, compassionate character study Puzzle ? adapted from Argentine director Natalia
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My mind reels whenever well-intentioned adults, often teachers and parents, post some photo to social media with a request that the world like it and share it, so t
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The psychological term for a real smile, a true one, is the Duchenne smile, named for the neurologist who discovered that a forced grin could freak people out just
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With singular clarity and power, photographer and documentarian Lauren Greenfield (The Queen of Versailles) has long chronicled the excesses of the age, specializin
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Friday, July 20While American rock band The Velvet Underground were being managed by Andy Warhol in the mid-'60s, their frequent performances at the Factory beca
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