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The documentary “Casa Susanna” explores the Catskills boardinghouse community that allowed denizens to express their identity when that was taboo.
Author: Nicolas Rapold
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Why ‘Freaks’ Is a Milestone for Disability Representation
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Though it has detractors, scholars and advocates have largely embraced this film for the way it shows people just living their lives while disabled.
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‘2023 Sundance Film Festival Short Films’ Review: Small Bites’
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From animated partygoers to real families embracing a name, this basket of goodies includes seven titles, among them comedy, tragedy and documentary.
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‘A Woman Escapes’ Review: Screen Sharing
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In this moody epistolary film, a woman in Paris works through a close friend’s death with the help of video correspondences.
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Filmmakers Sometimes Take a Years-Long Approach to Documentaries
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Three films showing at the Tribeca Festival tell stories over several years, a challenge for the filmmakers and the subjects.
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‘The Night of the 12th’ Review: When a Case Doesn’t Close
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This refreshingly grounded French crime procedural portrays what happens when a brutal murder case eludes the diligent efforts of a by-the-book investigator.
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‘Fool’s Paradise’ Review: No Talent? No Problem!
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A hapless man who barely speaks becomes a movie star in Charlie Day’s scattershot Hollywood satire.
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‘Freaks vs. the Reich’ Review: Band of Others
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This big-hearted, blithely odd adventure pits a troupe of superpowered circus folk against a psychic Nazi pianist.
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‘Plan 75’ Review: Leaving Early
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In this quietly bold debut feature, the Japanese government offers a euthanasia program and a 78-year-old woman considers her future.