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  • No Other Land (2023)

    No Other Land (2023)

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    The strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must. Thucydides wrote this 2500 years ago. It’s still true. Heads of state like Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu cling stubbornly to this creed and act accordingly, but if we’re being honest, they are symptoms, not causes. An insufficient faith in alternatives plagues…

  • Grizzly Man (2005)

    Grizzly Man (2005)

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    Over thirteen summers, Timothy Treadwell spent tens of thousands of hours living among brown grizzly bears in remote Alaska. That fact is far more remarkable than the circumstances of his death. Organisms need to eat, and sometimes you’re in the wrong place at the wrong time. The psychological forces that brought Treadwell to Katmai National…

  • Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat (2024)

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    Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat is not a story: it’s a feeling. A clip of Nina Simone singing a few bars of Bob Dylan’s “Ballad of Hollis Brown”—”The rats have got your flour/Bad blood it got your mare/If there’s anyone that knows/Is there anyone that cares?”—plays several times in the film, and each time one…