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Citizen Dame 5: Historical Women That Deserve Feature Films

March 26, 2021 Karen M. Peterson
Women are awesome. They can, to paraphrase Ginger Rogers, do anything men can do, only backwards and in high heels. But while we keep getting biopics
March 11, 2021March 10, 2021

Citizen Dame 5: Movies from Our Favorite Female Directors

March 6, 2021

Reframing the Problem of TCM

March 2, 2021

The Citizen Dame 5: Essential Films from Black Artists

February 14, 2021

Priscilla Dean Gives New Meaning to the Silent Film Heroine

‘MLK/FBI’ Poses Complex Questions Without Easy Answers (NYFF58)

September 20, 2020September 20, 2020 Lauren

Can we judge a man’s character through the eyes of his enemies? How do we honor the legacy of a hero while understanding him as a human being? These are

The Ecstasy of Steve McQueen’s ‘Lovers Rock’ (NYFF58)

September 18, 2020 Lauren

“How are they still awake?” I asked as I came to the end of Steve McQueen’s sumptuous and confounding Lovers Rock, the opener of the 58th New York Film Festival

‘Tenet’ is the Poor Execution of an Incomplete Thought

September 13, 2020September 13, 2020 Karen M. Peterson

There are puzzling, mystery movies that are fun to try to solve, and then there is Tenet. Christopher Nolan‘s latest mind-bending sci fi flick uses explosions, expository dialogue and quick

‘Madchen in Uniform’ and the Subversive Nature of Love

July 24, 2020 Lauren

One of the most remarkable aspects of Leontine Sagan’s Madchen in Uniform is its time period, appearing in Germany in 1931, at the beginning of the rise of the Nazis

‘Paracelsus’ Exposes the Tension Between Subversion and Propaganda

June 18, 2020 Lauren

To understand a society, watch its films. Germany during the rise of the Nazis still had a film industry, controlled by a central propaganda machine that decreed what films could

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