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A man with beard and glasses sits in front of a editing machine that is playing a black and white movie.

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The Cinema Within (dir. Chad Freidrichs)

Movies about movies. Groundbreaking. Movies about the "psychology of film editing"? Okay, that's a bit different. I have enjoyed the films of Chad Freidrichs well enough; The Pruitt-Igoe Myth and The Experimental City have each covered two very different and historically curious moments of the 20th

A woman in protective clothing walks through the futuristic ruins of San Francisco.

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2073 (dir. Asif Kapadia)

It’s easy to say that Asif Kapadia’s documentaries have been some of the most acclaimed of the last 15 or so years. His early collage-style non-fictions were critical and cultural successes, with Senna and in particular Amy (winning an Academy Award despite my own misgivings) proving to be

A stylised illustration of Liza Minnelli with bright red lips and blue eyeshadow and a short cropped hairdo.

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Liza: A Truly Terrific Absolutely True Story (dir. Bruce David Klein)

Wilkommen, bienvenue, welcome. As introductory lay-ups go, those famous lyrics from Bob Fosse’s Cabaret were too hard to refuse for me. It’s to the credit of director Bruce David Klein’s credit that he doesn’t always (does not always) succumb to such easy biographic impulses in Liza: