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Radicals Used to Make Change. Then Social Media Happened.
Gal Beckerman’s “The Quiet Before” examines the births of social movements from the 17th century to the present day.Gal Beckerman’s “The Quiet Before” examines the…
View More Radicals Used to Make Change. Then Social Media Happened.‘Lunana,’ a Movie From Bhutan, Is Nominated for an Academy Award
“Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom” was filmed on a shoestring budget in a remote Himalayan village. It’s now an Academy Award nominee, a first…
View More ‘Lunana,’ a Movie From Bhutan, Is Nominated for an Academy AwardSeen ‘Inventing Anna’? Here’s What It Gets Right (and Wrong)
A reporter who has followed the scammer Anna Sorokin, a.k.a. Anna Delvey, for years watched the new Netflix series about the scandal. The reporter has…
View More Seen ‘Inventing Anna’? Here’s What It Gets Right (and Wrong)Reality Stars Are Just Like Us
In “True Story,” the sociologist Danielle J. Lindemann parses the enduring appeal and effect of the TV genre.In “True Story,” the sociologist Danielle J. Lindemann…
View More Reality Stars Are Just Like UsAfter Pak and Beeple, What’s Next for NFT Collectors? Art Made With a Paintbrush
Now crypto collectors are investing in something more tangible, and traditional, like paintings and sculpture. And art dealers are rushing to woo them.Now crypto collectors…
View More After Pak and Beeple, What’s Next for NFT Collectors? Art Made With a PaintbrushLars Eighner, Who Wrote Eloquently of Being Homeless, Dies at 73
His 1993 memoir, “Travels With Lizbeth,” is considered a classic of the genre and brought him fame, but not fortune.His 1993 memoir, “Travels With Lizbeth,”…
View More Lars Eighner, Who Wrote Eloquently of Being Homeless, Dies at 73Bob Saget’s Autopsy Report Describes Severe Skull Fractures
Such an extensive head injury would likely have left the actor confused, if not unconscious, experts said.Such an extensive head injury would likely have left…
View More Bob Saget’s Autopsy Report Describes Severe Skull FracturesMifune’s Transcendent Films, With and Without Kurosawa
Yes, the Japanese team was one of cinema’s great collaborations. But Film Forum’s salute to Toshiro Mifune shows that he was a superb actor no…
View More Mifune’s Transcendent Films, With and Without KurosawaWhether He’s Talking ‘Amélie’ or ‘BigBug,’ Jean-Pierre Jeunet Doesn’t Hold Back
The French director is candid about his fights with Harvey Weinstein and his reasons for working with Netflix. And he can’t hide his joy about…
View More Whether He’s Talking ‘Amélie’ or ‘BigBug,’ Jean-Pierre Jeunet Doesn’t Hold Back