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This documentary tells the story of Pasang Lhamu Sherpa, the first Nepali woman to summit Earth’s highest mountain.
Author: Ben Kenigsberg
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Did This Couple Inspire Edward Albee’s ‘Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf’?
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A newly preserved Andy Warhol film documents a combative artist couple the playwright knew. The movie is premiering in MoMA’s To Save and Project.
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‘Society of the Snow’ Review: The Stranded and the Faithful
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Another movie tackles the story of the Uruguayan rugby players who survived a plane crash and turned to cannibalism.
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Three Great Documentaries to Stream
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This month’s selections include Jean-Luc Godard’s look at the Rolling Stones, an interview with a Holocaust survivor and a behind-the-scenes look at “Sesame Street.”
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‘Freud’s Last Session’ Review: Film Adaptation and Its Discontents
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Sigmund Freud and C.S. Lewis probably never met. What the stage-based film presupposes is: Maybe they did?
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‘Godard Cinema’ Review: A Convention-Defying Auteur
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This documentary looks at the work of Jean-Luc Godard, who sought with each new work to confound assumptions about how movies could look and sound.
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‘Into the Weeds’ Review: Man Versus Monsanto
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This documentary by Jennifer Baichwal recounts a legal battle in which a groundskeeper in California took on a multibillion-dollar company.
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Three Great Documentaries to Stream
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This month’s picks include two disturbing looks at domestic dysfunction, and — on a brighter note — a portrait of a brilliant Leonard Bernstein protégée.
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‘American Symphony’ Review: Intimate Harmony
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This portrait of the musician Jon Batiste and the author Suleika Jaouad follows an artistic couple through ambition and adversity.