Apr 26 2013
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A note from AVQ&A curator Tasha Robinson: The day this publishes will be my final day as the National Associate…
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Apr 25 2013
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Every day, Watch This offers staff recommendations inspired by a new movie coming out that week. This week: Michael…
Apr 25 2013
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Apr 25 2013
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The story of a young Pakistani man (Riz Ahmed) torn between native loyalty and American promise, Mira Nair’s The…
Apr 18 2013
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Kristin Scott Thomas has lived in Paris since her late teens, but in the last decade that her appearances in French…
Apr 16 2013
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Every day, Watch This offers staff recommendations inspired by a new movie coming out that week. This week: The…
Apr 5 2013
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Welcome back to AVQ&A, where we throw out a question for discussion among the staff and readers. Consider this a…
Apr 5 2013
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Primer, Shane Carruth’s 2004 film, was famously shot for $7,000, and it made up in narrative intricacy what it…
Apr 4 2013
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Born in Birmingham, Alabama and educated at the Frankfurt School, Angela Davis was uniquely positioned at the heady…
Apr 4 2013
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With so many decades devoted to studying the Holocaust, it’s almost hard to imagine there are stories left to…
Mar 29 2013
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A lot of the value of culture comes from the way a story or song can show us a new perspective, and let us know what…
Mar 28 2013
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An arthouse comer a decade ago, Argentine director Pablo Trapero has all but fallen off the map. But while movies…
Mar 28 2013
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“I’m not a modern woman,” insists Chilean singer Violeta Parra (Francisca Gavilán) on a TV interview threaded…
Mar 22 2013
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Every day, Watch This offers staff recommendations inspired by a new movie coming out that week. This week: Olympus…
Mar 21 2013
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When word first surfaced that director Harmony Korine (Gummo, Mister Lonely, Trash Humpers) was planning a movie…
Mar 21 2013
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Like a Rand Paul rally rendered in the style of Grand Theft Auto, Silver Circle engineers the perfect marriage of…
Mar 19 2013
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In honor of SXSW (and our many staffers returning from the all-you-can-watch bacchanal of music, movies, and…
Mar 14 2013
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Essentially an MTV Cribs episode padded out to feature length, Andy Capper’s obsequious doc shadows Snoop Dogg—now…
Mar 14 2013
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William Karel and Livia Manera’s American Masters profile of Philip Roth opens with the author proclaiming he’s less…
Mar 5 2013
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Every day, Watch This offers staff recommendations inspired by a new movie coming out that week. This week: Don’t…