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Jan 22, 2025 | 
hyperallergic.com | Dan Schindel
We rely on readers like you to fund our journalism. If you value our coverage and want to support more of it, please join us as a member. Tadashi Nakamura made his cinematic debut as a newborn, in his father Robert’s 1980 film Hito Hata: Raise the Banner — the first film created by and about Asian Americans.
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Jan 21, 2025 | 
hyperallergic.com | Dan Schindel
We rely on readers like you to fund our journalism. If you value our coverage and want to support more of it, please join us as a member. On January 20, after native rights activist Leonard Peltier had spent nearly 50 years in prison, President Biden granted him clemency. The news came just a week before a new film about the case, Jesse Short Bull and David France’s Free Leonard Peltier, was scheduled to premiere at the Sundance Film Festival.
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Jan 16, 2025 | 
hyperallergic.com | Dan Schindel
We rely on readers like you to fund our journalism. If you value our coverage and want to support more of it, please join us as a member. David Lynch, the multi-hyphenate film director and artist known for classics both cult and traditional, from Blue Velvet (1986) to Mulholland Drive (2001), has died at the age of 78. His death was confirmed by his family on Facebook today, January 16.
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Dec 18, 2024 | 
hyperallergic.com | Dan Schindel
We rely on readers like you to fund our journalism. If you value our coverage and want to support more of it, please join us as a member. Editor’s Note: The following story contains mentions of sexual assault. To reach the National Sexual Assault Hotline, call 1-800-656-HOPE (4673) or visit online.rainn.org. Brady Corbet, an actor turned writer/director, has seldom conceded to subtlety.
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Dec 17, 2024 | 
hyperallergic.com | Dan Schindel
We rely on readers like you to fund our journalism. If you value our coverage and want to support more of it, please join us as a member. Early in Werner Herzog’s new documentary Theater of Thought (2024), we meet Bryan Johnson, a venture capitalist invested in a variety of science companies who founded the neurotech firm Kernel.
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Dec 12, 2024 | 
hyperallergic.com | Dan Schindel
We rely on readers like you to fund our journalism. If you value our coverage and want to support more of it, please join us as a member. No matter how much you love your family, everyone needs a little downtime during the holidays. Add these video essays to your queue. Pull them out when you need a little break — pop in your earbuds and escape. We’re rounding out the year with videos about interest rates, online gambling, slipping on banana peels, and more.
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Dec 9, 2024 | 
hyperallergic.com | Dan Schindel
We rely on readers like you to fund our journalism. If you value our coverage and want to support more of it, please join us as a member. Tetris is perfection. It is not merely one of the most important video games of all time, but, I would argue, one of the greatest works of anything of the past half-century. Considering the international scope of its influence, one could make the case for the game as the final major piece of Soviet art.
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Nov 20, 2024 | 
mubi.com | Dan Schindel
One Shotinvites close readings of the basic unit of film grammar. More than a decade ago, Satoshi Kon’s premature death left a vacuum in the animation world. Not many directors so intuitively understood how the form could convey cinematic subjectivity, or were as imaginative in their experimentation. He used character designs that were unusually realistic for anime, then found ways to fray that realism.
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Nov 7, 2024 | 
hyperallergic.com | Dan Schindel
We rely on readers like you to fund our journalism. If you value our coverage and want to support more of it, consider supporting us as a member. Join Us January marked the centennial of the birth of Soviet filmmaker Sergei Parajanov, and cinema institutions around the world have spent the year honoring him.
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Oct 23, 2024 | 
hyperallergic.com | Dan Schindel
We rely on readers like you to fund our journalism. If you value our coverage and want to support more of it, consider supporting us as a member. Join Us Editor’s Note: The following story contains mentions of sexual assault. To reach the National Sexual Assault Hotline, call 1-800-656-HOPE (4673) or visit online.rainn.org.
