Tribeca 2021: ‘LFG’ Shows the Struggle and Sacrifice in Fight for Equal Pay
Sean Fine and Andrea Nix’s new documentary, LFG, focuses on the women’s national soccer team’s court battle to get paid what they’re worth.
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‘The Railway Children’ Shows the World Needn’t Be Beastly
Lionel Jeffries’ film version of Edith Nesbit’s The Railway Children is rich with a charm rooted in a bedrock of social awareness as hard as Charles Dickens.
The Sorrow of a Nation and Sergei Loznitsa’s State Funeral
The Soviet people feel so close in Sergei Loznitsa’s State Funeral, it’s as if you ask via whisper if they ever lost a family member to a show trial or gulag.
Tribeca 2021: ‘Settlers’ Thrills But Blunts Its Message
Wyatt Rockefeller’s sci-fi/western drama about a Martian settlement, Settlers, undercuts its allegory about Western colonization.
Director Emmett Brennan on the Meditative Urgency in His Environmental Film, ‘Reflection: A Walk with Water’
Director Emmett Brennan talks with PopMatters about telling an environmental story that can benefit our lives with Reflection: A Walk with Water.
Tribeca 2021: ‘No Man of God’ Refuses to Sensationalize Ted Bundy
Based on interviews with Ted Bundy, director Amber Sealey’s drama, No Man of God, questions whether a monster is worthy of absolution.
Director Lisa Immordino Vreeland on ‘Truman & Tennessee: An Intimate Conversation’
Director Lisa Immordino Vreeland talks with PopMatters about her documentary about two great American writers, Truman Capote and Tennesee Williams.
Tribeca 2021: ‘Larry Flynt for President’ Is Provocative and Prescient
Nadia Szold’s found-footage documentary Larry Flynt for President looks back at the Hustler publisher’s 1983 run for the White House.
Bo Burnham’s Pandemic Comedy Special ‘Inside’ Is the Krapp’s Last Tape of Our Times
Like Beckett’s Krapp’s Last Tape, Bo Burnham’s Inside offers rich insights into how our psyches and sense of self get warped by ever-advancing technologies.
Director Pan Nalin on His Return to Cinematic Innocence with ‘The Last Film Show’
Director Pan Nalin on the filmmakers that have touched his creative spirit and the liberation of a childlike point-of-view in The Last Film Show.
Tribeca 2021: ‘The Scars of Ali Boulala’ Peers Through Too Tight an Aperture
Max Eriksson’s documentary on the tragic life of a professional skateboarder, The Scars of Ali Boulala, will only interest fans of the sport.