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Thursday, September 4, 2025

Riefenstahl by Michelle Orange

A documentary on the “Nazi directress” by Andres Veiel raises new questions about art, ethics, and judgment. Leni Riefenstahl during the CBC interview “Leni Riefenstahl in her own wor…

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Thursday, January 9, 2025

The Room Next Door by Michelle Orange

A Clean, Well-Lighted Death: Pedro Almodóvar’s latest film stars Julianne Moore and Tilda Swinton as two women whose friendship is rekindled in the face of terminal cancer. Julianne Moor…

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Thursday, June 20, 2024

Janet Planet by Michelle Orange

A loving mother-daughter bond fumbles tenderly toward rupture in Annie Baker’s debut feature. Julianne Nicholson as Janet and Zoe Ziegler as Lacy in Janet Planet. Courtesy A24. Janet Pl…

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Thursday, April 4, 2024

We Loved It All by Michelle Orange

A climate-crisis anti-memoir by novelist Lydia Millet makes a case for humility before nature. We Loved It All: A Memory of Life, by Lydia Millet, W. W. Norton, 254 pages, $27.99 •  …

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Thursday, March 21, 2024

La Chimera by Michelle Orange

In Alice Rohrwacher’s hauntingly whimsical film, an archaeologist turned grave robber in 1980s Tuscany finds that some losses are buried too deeply to be excavated. Josh O’Connor as Ar…

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