Nyad debuts Jimmy Chin and Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi as non-documentary filmmakers, with through-lines to their prior work that are starting to feel like burgeoning auteur trademarks.
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Author: Steven Strauss
Nybrid
21st century cinema is inundated with bio-docs and bio-pics.
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Dazzled
What’s the Venn-diagram overlap between Taylor Mac stans and IFC Centerians?
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Satirical Love is . . . ?
Why are musical composers obsessed with the phrase “love is love”?
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NYFF Improvements
This year’s New York Film Festival were two of the strongest moviegoing weeks of my life.
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May Play
Fair Play and May December are a “Classical Melodrama meets the Woke Discourse” Netflix double feature.
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Pôrnō
Browse through a porn website in 2023, and you’re bound to stumble across a “STEPMOM BONES STEPSON!!!” video.
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Ignore Victorious to be Victorious
Slick producing can entail tricking ticket buyers.
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Clean Up on Audi 5
Are you there, Adam?
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Footloose
It should be illegal to screen Stop Making Sense in a venue that forbids busting a move.
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