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Darkly influential, the cinema of Nazi propagandist Leni Riefenstahl is a powerful blend of art and propaganda. She’s now the subject of a new documentary that wrestles with the question of the culpability of a talented artist working for a vile regi

The Oscar-winning documentary provoked reactions along the fault lines of the ongoing conflict.

A sex worker in a romantic comedy isn’t new. How the Oscar-nominated film uses immigrant Brooklyn to subvert the genre? That’s different.

The most remarkable part of this film is the irony of how it lands in the political moment: “Brave New World” features a Black iteration of the quintessential American superhero a month into an administration dedicated to eliminating diversity.

“What is most important is not what people with unbridled power can impose on us, but rather on what we can do as human beings, as political actors.”

No Other Land, an award-winning documentary about the dispossession of Palestinians in the West Bank, still hasn’t found a distributor in the US.

In a time of crisis, the Academy is offering a bulwark of humane consensus, though its blind spots remain.

"We are not belonging to anybody or to any party. We are artists, filmmakers from Gaza, who want to tell our stories to the world because what’s going on is not fair. We want the people to understand."

Adrien Brody stars as a talented architect who flees postwar Europe to meet his match in America, a power-hungry industrialist played by Guy Pearce.

An opening scene in the documentary shows Dane flipping through the pages of a massive looseleaf binder that contains her entire FBI Red Squad files.