Teenage Wasteland
For students of Middletown High School in the 1990s, Fred Isseks was the teacher who transformed teenage doldrums into a time of self-discovery and self-empowerment.
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Come See Me in the Good Light
Beginning two and a half years after poet Andrea Gibson’s cancer diagnosis, the documentary captures their relationship with their long-time partner as the two of them brace themselves to meet the unlucky hand they were dealt.
The Perfect Neighbor
This documentary is horrifying and heartbreaking, exposing the hideousness of a crime that robbed four children of their mother.
A House of Dynamite
Is it the end of the world as we know it?
The Alabama Solution
This is not easy viewing, but it is informative, impressive, and horrifying.
One Battle After Another
Previous Paul Thomas Anderson films are remarkable for the way they elude easy definition, but here, everything is exactly as it seems.
Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass
The Brothers Quay have made a film that will confound those in search of normal narrative logic, yet it is beautifully attuned to its own unconscious rhythm.
Sudan, Remember Us
In Sudan, filmmaker Hind Meddeb captures a brief moment of hope of reform.