Review: The Turin Horse- Moma Recent Acquisitions Film Series

Nearly all critics hail The Turin Horse (2011) as a masterpiece of modern cinema. It is slow moving and full of symbols and so can’t help but open itself up to a slough of interpretations. Using extremely long scenes and a bare minimum of dialogue, 

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Review: Diary of a Teenage Girl- Moma New Directors/New Films Series

A young girl is struck with feelings of love and arousal and so goes on a whirlwind adventure while she discovers this side of herself. Diary of a Teenage Girl (2014) is about a teenager, but also includes some very adult themes, themes that most teenagers would only ever dream about [...]

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Review: Los Hongos- Moma New Directors/New Films Series

Los Hongos (2014) directed by Oscar Ruiz Navia is a colorful portrait following the lives of two lovable teens, Ras (Jovan Alexis Marquinez Angulo) and Calvin (Calvin Buenaventura Tascon), in Santiago de Cali, Columbia. What makes this film a joy to watch is the tone that Navia uses to approach these characters. These characters fit societal profiles had Navia wanted make a darker film, a study about racism and street life perhaps, [...]

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Five Must-See Classic David Cronenberg Films

Still working hard as ever, Ontarian Filmmaker David Cronenberg’s career has spanned decades and produced a significant amount of work. His newest film A Map to the Stars (2014) follows the lives of Hollywood celebrities that are haunted by ghosts. The lives of the characters and their failing relationships, atrocious behaviors, and their crazy reactions is in focus more fully rather the ghost [...]

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5 Reasons to See ‘The Apartment’ at the Museum of the Moving Image, NYC

As part of the Mad Men exhibition playing at the Museum of the Moving Image, creator Mathew Weiner has curated a film series featuring films that were essential to the development of AMC's Mad Men. The Apartment is part of this series.

C.C. Baxter (Jack Lemmon) fights to get even a single decent night’s sleep in his own apartment. His problem: he’s got a great apartment in New York City and all the top executives at his workplace want to use it to conduct their extramarital affairs. Winner of the Academy Award for Best Picture in 1960, The Apartment has stood time’s test, and is universally acclaimed [...]

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Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief

Just based on the title of Alex Gibney's Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief, it seems fairly obvious which side of the story he’s setting out to tell, and while an impressive amount of investigation went into this telling, the film veers into propaganda to tell it. Several previous members of the Church of Scientology tell their haunting stories [...]

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Violet- New Directors/New Films Series 2015

Violet directed by Bas Devos is set in a city that's under constant surveillance. With cameras everywhere, and guards monitoring our lives, one would think that, among all the reasons for surveillance, we’d also be safer. But tragedy strikes in the blink of an eye, while a security guard is taking a phone call, as two BMXers are senselessly attacked [...]

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The Films of Alejandro González Iñárritu

Iñárritu films are usually deep, dealing with very heavy subject matter, pining at questions about the nature of humanity and our connection as a race. As far as opinions go, it seems either you love Iñárritu, or hate him. For the latter, his films seem to grasp at invisible straws [...]

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Must-See Films of Gaspar Noé

 

Gaspar Noé was born in Argentina in 1963 and moved to France when he was eleven. Regarded as a tremendously original and expressive filmmaker, like many a good artist, his work has caused some controversy, largely for its violence. But Noé is a master of streamlining violence, letting it loose in a controlled flow, using artful techniques in sound, sight and story to amplify [...]

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The Films of Pawel Pawlikowski

Having made a handful of great films in the past, Polish born director Pawel Pawlikowski has gotten more press lately than ever before thanks to his Oscar-winning film Ida. Pawlikowski studied philosophy at Oxford, pursed filmmaking part-time through the ‘80s, and in the ‘90s achieved some success with a series of playful [...]

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