Laura Poitras profiles photographer and activist Nan Goldin, whose incisive body of work probes the tender underbelly of metropolitan society, finding in it the titular beauty and bloodshed.
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Ten favorites from the Cannes Film Festival 2021
This year’s selection included everything from a highly anticipated rock opera to compelling documentaries to an award-winning film featuring a character who lactates motor oil.
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Up close—maybe too close—with Julian Assange
Laura Poitras, who recorded the Edward Snowden leak in Citizenfour, returns with her latest documentary, Risk.
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A drama inspired by the Edward Snowden leaks fails to stick to its own source
Route 66 Theatre’s The Source is a strange type of bait and switch
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In Snowden, a private life obscures a public scandal
Joseph Gordon-Levitt stars as the notorious whistle-blower in Oliver Stone’s new biopic.
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Everyone else is wrong, and the rest of this week’s screenings
New reviews and notable screenings in this week’s issue
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The War From Both Sides
In two new docs: Osama bin Laden’s servants in and out of Gitmo, U.S. soldiers in and out of Afghanistan
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The Oath
The Human Rights Watch Film Festival opens Thursday 6/3 with “The Oath,” a documentary that contrasts Guantanamo prisoner and former Osama Bin Laden driver Salim Hamdan, a Guantanamo Bay prisoner prosecuted by military tribunal, with his brother-in-law Abu Jandal, now a cab driver in Yemen.