Film & Documentary
March 16, 2023
Where Were South Asian Dancers in the Oscars’ “Best Song” Performance?
The ceremony’s rendition of the Indian Telugu-language song “Naatu Naatu” is indicative of under-representation across the industry, critics say. | Rhea Nayyar
ART ON TV
Hirshhorn’s The Exhibit Premieres With Inflatable Banana and Lots of Cringe
The Exhibit: Finding the Next Great Artist is filled with awkward silences and art-world jargon. | Rhea Nayyar
Artists Tackle Social Media in Another Meh Episode of The Exhibit
Also, one contestant attempted three oil paintings in seven hours. It went as well as you can imagine. | Rhea Nayyar
FESTIVALS ACROSS THE U.S.
Miami Film Festival Reveals South Florida’s Cinema Crisis
The art-house movie theaters that long served as the festival’s screening venues now face extinction. | Jess Swanson
Colorado Filmmakers Shine at Boulder International Film Festival
For its 2023 season, BIFF showed a total of 67 films, including an impressive 13 films by Colorado natives and four features from Sundance. | Sage Behr
Seeing Brooklyn Through Su Friedrich's Lens
Today, screening in Manhattan in a partial retrospective of the queer filmmaker’s work, challenges us to look at what’s right in front of us. | Rhea Nayyar
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REVIEWS & MORE
What Salamanders Tell Us About Our Future on Earth
A Common Sequence muses on the different ways that humans assess, categorize, understand, and often exploit the natural world. | Dan Schindel
Achingly Intimate Doc About Ukrainian Orphans Insists on Hope
A House Made of Splinters bears witness not only to children’s ongoing trauma, but to their enduring ability to seek out and sustain their own support networks. | Eileen G'Sell
Film as a Terrain of Feminist Struggle
Feminist Worldmaking and the Moving Image reminds us that feminist visions are abundant, and feminist critique is generative. | Sanoja Bhaumik
FOR FUN
Mike Leigh’s BBC Films, Ranked
Leigh’s films are class-conscious, prickly, strange, satirical, and often very funny. | Nathan Gelgud
