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An assemblage of travelogues shot by women from the 1920s through the 1950s, this experimental essay film can be seen with either live or prerecorded narration.
Author: Ben Kenigsberg
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‘The Anthrax Attacks’ Review: Strange Behavior and an Incriminating Flask
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This documentary by Dan Krauss revisits the case against a scientist the F.B.I. maintained was responsible for a series of bioterrorism attacks after Sept. 11.
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‘The Story of Film: A New Generation’ Review: The Case for Modern Movies
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The latest installment in the filmmaker-critic Mark Cousins’s survey of movie history focuses on 21st-century developments.
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‘Burial’ Review: Corpse Ride
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The film, about a Russian intelligence officer’s covert mission at the end of World War II, begins on a suspenseful note, but the tension soon dissipates.
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Stream These Three Great Documentaries
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The brilliance of Chantal Akerman, Martin Scorsese and Ryuichi Sakamoto is on display in this month’s recommendations.
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‘Orphan: First Kill’ Review: Still Slashing After All These Years
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Isabelle Fuhrman, who in “Orphan” had to be convincing as a child of age 9, reprises her role 13 years later in this prequel set two years earlier.