Movies

Kristen Stewart as Beth Travis from Kelly Reichardt's Certain Women.

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'Certain Women' Confront The Uncertain Future With Quiet Desperation — And Resolve

5:00pm October 13, 2016

by Ella Taylor

In this triptych of films inspired by the short stories of Maile Meloy, director Kelly Reichardt (Meek's Cutoff) focuses on women striving to escape their prescribed roles.

Rebecca Hall as Christine Chubbuck in Christine.

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'Christine': A Shocking Act, Plus Traffic And Weather, After The Break

5:00pm October 13, 2016

by Scott Tobias

Director Antonio Campos presents the story of Christine Chubbuck, a young TV reporter in Sarasota, Florida who stunned viewers with her on-air suicide in 1974.

Director Keiichi Hara tells the story of Edo-period Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai in Miss Hokusai.

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In 'Miss Hokusai,' The Daughter Of A Master Artist Comes Into Her Own

5:00pm October 13, 2016

by Mark Jenkins

Set in Edo-era Japan, this gorgeous, impressionistic tale follows the life and work of the artist Katsushika Hokusai and his daughter/protege through a series of exquisitely wrought vignettes.

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The Man, The Myth, The Ledger: In 'The Accountant,' Affleck Gets His Bourne On

5:00pm October 13, 2016

by Chris Klimek

Christian Wolff (Ben Affleck) is a math savant who hides dark side-dealings as a freelance accountant for various criminal enterprises.

Saadi Yacef, as revolutionary leader El-hadi Jaffar (second from left) and Brahim Haggiag (right) as revolutionary leader Ali La Pointe in a scene from Gillo Pontecorvo's The Battle Of Algiers.

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A Cinematic Classic Of Resistance Returns To The Big Screen

4:13pm October 13, 2016

by Bilal Qureshi

Bilal Qureshi writes that The Battle Of Algiers, currently in movie theaters for a 50th anniversary rerelease, influenced many films that followed it and has striking relevance to the present.

Polish Filmmaker Andrzej Wajda Dies At 90

6:22pm October 11, 2016

by Bob Mondello

Polish auteur, Andrzej Wajda, has died. He was a great of Polish cinema who earned an Oscar for his life's work, as well as a Palme d'Or, for a film about Solidarity that was made while the Communists were in power.

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Filmmaker Andrzej Wajda Dies At 90, Celebrated Resistance To Authoritarianism

6:02pm October 11, 2016

by Bob Mondello

Well-known films by the director include A Generation, Man of Marble and Man of Iron, which in which characters fight Nazis and communists. His final film will compete for a foreign-language Oscar.

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Filmmaker Angus MacLachlan Gets Martin Scorsese's Blessing

5:23am October 10, 2016

by Eddie Garcia

Celebrated filmmaker Martin Scorsese has signed on as executive producer of the film "Abundant Acreage Available." It was written and directed by Winston-Salem's Angus MacLachlan, best kn

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Armie Hammer, Nate Parker and Jayson Warner Smith in The Birth of A Nation

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A Man And An Amendment Are Re-Examined In 'The Birth Of A Nation' And '13th'

4:32pm October 07, 2016

by Bob Mondello

Nate Parker's rebellion film The Birth of A Nation and Ava DuVernay's documentary 13th tackle America's racial history, but intersect in complicated ways.

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'Birth Of A Nation' Conforms To Hollywood's Standard Revenge Template

1:41pm October 07, 2016

by David Edelstein

The new movie, which tells the story of Nat Turner's 1831 slave revolt, is a righteous-vigilante tale — and an answer to D.W. Griffith's 1915 film of the same name.

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