The Proposal
By Guillermo Lopez Meza May 23, 2019
Reality, performance, and protest amalgamate in a political and artistic gesture that defies notions of patrimony, marketing, and property in the art world.
Reality, performance, and protest amalgamate in a political and artistic gesture that defies notions of patrimony, marketing, and property in the art world.
A timely response to the persistence of Holocaust denial and the Polish government’s attempt to make it illegal to accuse that nation of complicity.
What motivated a former librarian to amass a personal archive of 70,000 VHS tapes that became a treasure trove?
A documentary on the auto executive, who is descibed here as an icon, a sex symbol, and the perfect figure for a Hollywood film.
Two of the more noteworthy documentaries at this year’s festival center on tragedy and spotlight ordinary people attempting to build something positive in honor of those they have lost.
Among the entries are films focusing on the nation’s LGBTQ community; in particular, the recent attacks on their rights. How they choose to respond is the point of one especially compelling documentary.
Four documentaries about modern-day China to recommend at this year’s festival.
For guitar nerds, this is a feast, as the likes of Nels Cline, Bill Frisell, and Jamie Hince come in to chat and play in the titualar store.
The story of the odd duo of Sterling Magee and Adam Gussow looks like the kind of source material that could inspire a sweetened Hollywood movie.