John Lewis: Good Trouble
The story of Congressman John Lewis’s life is the ongoing story of the civil rights movement.
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Coward. Bully. Victim. The Story of Roy Cohn
The sometimes eye-opening, jaw-dropping stories that the interviewees divulge bring Cohn—and the documentary—so vividly to life.
Shirley
Stylistically and tonally, director Josephine Decker tries to present writer Shirley Jackson’s life like a Shirley Jackson story.
Les Misérables
Ladj Ly’s movie graphically examines how French society, through the actions of one police squad, reaps what it sows.
Non-Fiction, Her Smell, Where’s My Roy Cohn? | MoMA’s Contenders 2019
Now in its 12th annual incarnation, “The Contenders” series screens some of the most noteworthy films of the previous 12 months.
The Booksellers | NYFF 2019
Eccentric and idiosyncratic personalities abound.
Portrait of a Lady on Fire | NYFF 2019
Céline Sciamma turns to period drama with this elegant meditation on female desire that flips the script on the male gaze.
Beanpole | NYFF 2019
Kantemir Balagov’s extraordinary second film opens in postwar Leningrad, where survivors are still reeling from the devastation.
The Miracle of the Little Prince
Why do readers from many cultures pick this particular book, The Little Prince, as a way to preserve their languages and cultures?