What it dispenses in salaciousness fails to account for the lack of any meaningful undercurrent that might make the vulgarity interesting.
Tag: Sean Baker
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Ben Sachs’s favorite films of 2017
A list of the 35 best movies to play Chicago this year.
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How The Florida Project works wonders with cinematic time
Sean Baker’s indie drama is an impressive feat of sympathetic filmmaking.
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An art exhibit on vanning culture at Tiger Strikes Asteroid, and more of the best things to do in Chicago this week
“South Side Stories, Rethinking Chicago Art, 1960-1970” at the Smart Museum of Art, Jian Ping kicks off Chicago Women in Publishing’s year of events, and more happenings from September 18-21.
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Sean Baker’s Tangerine: Part screwball comedy, part ethnographic doc, and one of a kind
The iPhone-shot indie about transsexual prostitutes in LA is currently playing at the Music Box Theatre.
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Reconsidering Sean Baker’s Starlet, 18 months later
The recent wave of documentaries about the exploitation of young women has led me to reevaluate the California-set indie drama.
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The Village: revisiting a meaningful plot twist
Reconsidering The Village, M. Night Shyamalan’s maligned 2004 feature
