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By Cory Bilicko
Umberto D didn’t stand a chance when it was released. A neorealist film that dramatizes the struggles of an elderly man nearing destitution in post-war Rome, it premiered to Italian audiences in 1952 who were ready to put the past behind them and look to the brighter economic future that would indeed come […]

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When German art critic and historian Franz Roh devised the term “magic realism” in the early 20th Century, his frame of reference stemmed from the visual arts he’d been studying. In his essay “Magic Realism: Post-Expressionism,” Roh was recognizing the “magic” of the everyday world as it presents itself to us; in other words, how, […]

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Nine years before he gave Katrina victims a platform for expressing their grief and frustration in his HBO documentary When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts, Spike Lee made the move from fictional filmmaking to docs with his potent 4 Little Girls.
The film recounts the September 15, 1963 bombing of the Sixteenth Street […]

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By Cory Bilicko
Managing Editor
In the opening of D.H. Lawrence’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover, the author describes the social condition in England at the arrival of World War I: Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically. The cataclysm has happened, we are among the ruins, we start to build up new […]

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by Cory Bilicko
A stay-at-home film critic examines obscure titles in our new section
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