Paul Thomas Anderson’s adaptation of the Thomas Pynchon novel “Vineland” was the top winner, earning 3 prizes for best picture, director and supporting performance for Teyana Taylor.
With Hasan in Gaza: Kamal Aljafari’s Raw Documentary about Palestinians during the 2001 Second Intifada
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Kamal Aljafari’s video recordings of a journey through Gaza in 2001 is the basis for this vibrant documentary of Palestinian life in defiance of occupation.
Perfect Stranger, The: Geeta Gandbhir’s Powerful Documentary about Social Justice and Activism
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“I think that as an artist or filmmaker, my job is to be a vehicle. The activism is the filmmaking.”
Train Dreams: Clint Bentley’s Superp Tale of Ordinary yet Rich Life, Starring Joel Edgerton in Oscar-Calliber Turn
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Clint Bentley’s second feature, Train Dreams, is a quitely meditative chronicle, an ode to humanity in celebrating the life of an ordinary man.
Eadweard Muybridge (1975): Thom Andersen’s Experimental Docu about English photographer
50 Years Ago The visionary director made his debut with his student thesis, a stunning experimental documentary, Muybridge, Zoopraxographer, about the English photographer Eadweard Muybridge. Eadweard Muybridge portrait from the Library of Congress In 2015, the United States Library of Congress selected the film for preservation in the National Film Registry, finding it “culturally, historically, […]