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Flash Crash
In his 1977 novel Players, Don DeLillo told the story of a crumbling marriage amidst terrorism on the New York Stock exchange. In the 1973 Great Jones Street, he portrayed a wealthy rock star escaping the solar of his own fame by walking off his tour and hiding out in a downtown Manhattan apartment. And in Mao II (1991), he sent a reclusive, blocked novelist away from the world of cultural production into the zeitgeist of Middle East political violence. The emotional affect of a hypermediated society, the ways in which personal relations are shaped by the white noise of […]
By Scott Macaulay
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Of Time & The City
Artistry, despair and rage — the New York City of the 1980s and ’90s was defined by its fusion of these elements as artists and activists became frontline soldiers in the fight against the health crisis of AIDS. “Silence = Death” was the slogan of activist group ACT UP, an admonishment to all those who’d deny the severity of the epidemic by not taking a position. And as ACT UP members took direct action against fearful politicians, a generation of artists incorporated the movement’s anger and social critique into their own passionate work. These New York years form the backdrop […]
By Filmmaker Staff
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War of Words
War of Words By Heather Chaplin.
By Heather Chaplin
Quartet for the End of Time
If Beale Street Could Talk
2018’s Ten Best Films Directed by Women
Dec 18, 2018
Back to One, Episode 38: The Party’s Just Beginning‘s Director and Star Karen Gillan
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The Black List Announces its 2018 Screenplays
Dec 17, 2018
Three Faces of Evil: Top Scary Political Docs of 2018
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You Can Go Home Again: Alfonso Cuarón On Sound, Vision and Memory In Roma
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Getting the Job, Learning from The Master and Goodfellas, and Shooting with Cleaner Glass: Cinematographer Sean Porter Talks Green Book
Dec 15, 2018
Brown Girls Doc Mafia Announces Co-Directors, Advisory Board and $105,000 Grant From John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
Dec 14, 2018
“Comedy is Hard to Create, but It’s Easy to Evaluate”: Director David Leitch on Blending Action and Laughs in Deadpool 2
Dec 12, 2018
Trailer Watch: Jobe’z World
Dec 12, 2018
Blast From the Past
25 New Faces of Independent Film 2012