Category: New
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This story of folk songs and fateful queer romance is both a tearjerker and a clumsily structured narrative. 2025 has been a year full of cinema that has touched on music as a force of community and identity. In Sinners (2025), blues became a symbol of shared pain during the Jim Crow era that connected…
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This undiscovered silent film with a historic all-Black cast and female filmmaker might be a product of its time, but it still deserves attention. It goes without saying it’s really hard to find a film from the 1910s. Cinema was still in its infancy at this point. We kind of take for granted how much…
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Although this silent horror film from Denmark posts an interesting connection between the past and present, the lackluster pacing and strange academic approach hinders the haunting potential. When it comes to silent films, there’s nothing better than a silent horror film. Classics such as The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920) and Broken Blossoms (1919) don’t…
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Looking at David Lynch as more than an iconic filmmaker, this quiet yet insightful documentary looks at Lynch’s first and most overlooked passion. When David Lynch passed earlier this year, I was stunned. I had put Blue Velvet on my watchlist for a few years at that point, but Lynch’s death put a glaze over…
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