Film
Jun 11, 2021 • View in browser
Movie theaters and events continue to open up, and film festivals are returning with more in-person elements than they could manage last year. Frameline in San Francisco and Tribeca in New York are two of them, and we have coverage of both.
Plus there’s a great interview with the director of one of the year’s best films, reviews of a restored “horror PSA” and a bracing family documentary, and more. Enjoy!
— Dan Schindel, Associate Editor for Documentary
What's New
From "All Light, Everywhere"
From "All Light, Everywhere"
The Sundance Institute has announced its grantees for this year’s Documentary Fund. Eighteen projects about Black motherhood, conversion therapy in Israel, and more have received their support.
Forrest Cardamenis talks to director Theo Anthony about All Light, Everywhere, one of the most acclaimed docs of the year so far. Anthony discusses merging theory and practice and the connections between surveillance and cinema.
Latest Reviews
A First-Person Interrogation of a Family's Guilt-Ridden Past
A '70s PSA Depicts Life for the Elderly as a Funhouse Nightmare
What to Watch
From "Cobra Verde"
From "Cobra Verde"
Through August, Metrograph is running Whole Lotta Herzog, an online retrospective of works by the infamously eccentric German filmmaker. We highlight some titles to check out.
The Frameline Film Festival, one of the world’s oldest queer film festivals, is also running this month, and with a sizable online catalog. Don’t miss it!
MUBI and FILMADRID’s video essay series returns with Eva Elcano Fuentes’s “Generated Spaces,” which surveys computer-animated landscapes in popular culture.
"Generated Spaces"
"Generated Spaces"
We’ll see you in the theater!
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