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Your Movie Is an Act of Self-Negation, Charlie Brown! plus more new reviews and notable screenings

by J.R. Jones November 13, 2015August 18, 2021

New reviews and notable screenings in this week’s issue

Film

Chilean director Patricio Guzman ponders the mysteries of the deep in The Pearl Button

by J.R. Jones September 9, 2015August 18, 2021

Patricio Guzman earned his place in cinematic history with The Battle of Chile (1975-’79), a stunning journalistic trilogy about the 1973 military coup that replaced Chile’s democratically elected president, Salvador Allende, with the dictator Augusto Pinochet. Since then Guzman has returned to the coup years with Chile, Obstinate Memory (1997), The Pinochet Case (2001), and […]