Slouching Towards Yuppiedom: Damon Packard’s “Fatal Pulse”
Fatal Pulse (2018) pays venomous tribute to early ‘90s Hollywood. Its alternate title, Untitled...
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Song from a Vanished New York: Edo Bertoglio’s “Downtown 81”
Downtown 81 merges the innocent with the ghostly. A tour of New York’s post-punk art and music...
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Queer Kino: 1970s and ‘80s Gay German Arthouse Cinema
The rise of New German Cinema coincided with the birth of gay liberation. Perhaps as a result, the...
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New York Stories: Abel Ferrara’s “The Projectionist”
On the surface, The Projectionist (2019) doesn’t reach very far. A 90-minute documentary about...
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Talk Wordy to Me: Sofia Bohdanowicz and Deragh Campbell’s “MS Slavic 7”
MS Slavic 7 (2019) is deceptively simple. Opening with the image of a poem by Polish writer Józef...
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