Taking Venice
By Kevin Filipski May 17, 2024

An engaging look back when American culture was used to combat communism.
An engaging look back when American culture was used to combat communism.
A documentary exploration and celebration of those personal and collective specters that define our relationship with movies (and any audiovisual record).
An inspiring film that follows the rise of Manish Chauhan, a street dancer from Mumbai who dreams of a dancing career.
A deeply felt tribute to an artist who has sometimes been misunderstood.
The documentary take us into the life of Nikki Giovanni, a trailblazer of the civil rights era and a poet of ongoing distinction and importance.
Viewers don’t need to know a jeté from a plié to enjoy this moving dance documentary.
For a film about shaking things up, it’s a pretty straitlaced affair.
“What makes a Vermeer a Vermeer?” is the question that opens Suzanne Raes’s meticulously observed and detailed documentary.
A portrait of an artist who likes to stay out of the limelight while sometimes teasing it Banksy–style.