Film
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World
‘House Party’ Review: A Rager Gone South
Directed by Calmatic, “House Party” reboots the 1990 Kid ’n Play cult comedy with the help of LeBron James.
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Why Do Some Films Get Restored and Others Languish? A MoMA Series Holds Clues.
History, finances and practical concerns all played a role in preserving the movies being shown at To Save and Project.
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Longtime Film Forum Director to Step Down After 50 Years
Karen Cooper, who took over the nonprofit cinema in 1972 and transformed it into a $6 million-a-year operation, will step…
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Michael Snow, Prolific and Playful Artistic Polymath, Is Dead at 94
He was a painter, a musician, a photographer and a sculptor. But he was best known for experimental (and often…
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Teen Stars of ‘Romeo and Juliet’ Sue Over Nudity in 1968 Film
Olivia Hussey and Leonard Whiting assert in a lawsuit that Paramount Pictures should have known nude images of them in…
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World
When the Camera Can’t Turn Away, These Women Force Us to Listen
Films as different as the biopic “Till” and the thriller “Resurrection” use lengthy monologues to give female characters the chance…
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To Buff a Balkan Leader’s Image, a Filmmaker Calls In Kevin Spacey
A director cast the beleaguered actor as Franjo Tudjman, the late Croatian leader, whom some call a patriot and others…
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Opinion
It’s the End of an Era of Great European Cinema. Or Is It?
PARIS — So that’s the end of that. With the deaths of Jean-Luc Godard and Jean-Marie Straub this year, the…
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Health
Making Skate Films Into Art
William Strobeck brings rare intimacy to his skateboarding films. His latest, “Play Dead,” with Supreme, chronicles some of the sport’s…
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World
‘Babylon’: A Guide to the Characters and Their Real-Life Counterparts
The Damien Chazelle epic is set in 1920s Hollywood and draws on figures from that time, including “the ‘It’ Girl,”…