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PlayTime (1967)
Jacques Tati’s PlayTime was, famously, a flop. Tati built an enormous stage on the outskirts of Paris, at great cost. Audiences didn’t come and critics were divided. Over…
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Elena Knows, Pineiro (2007)
Claudia Piñeiro is one of Argentina’s most successful authors. She’s also a pro-choice activist, having lent her voice to the successful effort to legalize abortion in Argentina. Elena…
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Being Upright, Anderson (2001)
The Bodhisattva precepts are not commandments. They are descriptions of the world as it is. That we humans don’t see that, or don’t quite believe it, is why…
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Troubadour, K’naan (2009)
K’naan hasn’t released an album in thirteen years, and that’s only if we’re counting 2012’s mediocre Country, God or the Girl. But the Somalian-Canadian MC’s first two albums,…
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Apocalypse Now (1979)
I have an acquaintance—once a good friend, now an acquaintance; these things happen—who survived an act of political violence. Nearly one hundred people around her died. She was…
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The 40 Year-Old Virgin (2005)
Well. The crudeness of 40 Year-Old Virgin—and be prepared for some extreme crudeness, some of which, two decades later, would for good reason no longer be tolerable—has a…
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