The New York Times – Film:
In this moody epistolary film, a woman in Paris works through a close friend’s death with the help of video correspondences.
Author: Nicolas Rapold
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Filmmakers Sometimes Take a Years-Long Approach to Documentaries
The New York Times – Film:
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
The New York Times – Film:
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!
The New York Times – Film:
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
The New York Times – Film:
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.
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The Steps to Making ‘How to Blow Up a Pipeline’
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The filmmakers and cast of “How to Blow Up a Pipeline” explain what it took to quickly, but precisely, put together their indie tale of sabotage.
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‘De Humani Corporis Fabrica’ Review: Showing What We’re Made Of
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This eye-opening film from Verena Paravel and Lucien Castaing-Taylor immerses us in the landscapes and textures of the human body, as encountered in French hospitals.
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‘Sam Now’ Review: When Mom Leaves
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Sensitive and surprising, Reed Harkness’s documentary follows the reverberations in his family after their mother abruptly departs.