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90SC: Wild Combination: A Portrait of Arthur Russell
Matt Wolf paints a hauntingly beautiful portrayal of Arthur Russell’s life through rare photo and video archives, and intimate interviews…
Posted on September 29

90SC: Vintage: Families of Value
On Thomas Allen Harris’s official website (http://www.chimpanzeeproductions.com/films.html), his debut feature film Vintage: Families of Value is described as a “fantasy…
Posted on August 23

90SC: The Two Escobars
People should never die because of a mistake. But in a world fueled by soccer and drugs, a mistake can…
Posted on August 01

90SC: Yanqui Walker and the Optical Revolution
by Mary Iannone In the mid nineteenth century, a man named William Walker invaded Nicaragua with the goal of turning…
Posted on June 23

90SC: My Perestroika
In Robin Hessman’s My Perestroika, the director applies a unique blend of home video, archival footage, and personal interviews in…
Posted on May 31

90SC: Before Stonewall
It’s a common misconception that the 1969 Stonewall riots, one of the first instances in which the gay community fought…
Posted on April 28

90SC: Brock Enright: Good Times Will Never Be The Same
In 2006, New York’s Perry Rubenstein Gallery asked mixed media artist Brock Enright to create a special exhibit to be…
Posted on April 07

90SC: 11-4-08
Just two weeks before the 2008 elections, Jeff Deutchman commissioned twenty fellow filmmakers to document the events of a day…
Posted on February 17

90SC: Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo
In BEETLE QUEEN CONQUERS TOKYO, filmmaker Jessica Oreck takes us on an adventure that follows the role of insects in…
Posted on January 31

90SC: Children Underground
Romania’s anti-contraception laws have orphanages and shelters overflowing with needy children, inevitably spilling the older ones over onto the streets.…
Posted on December 20

90SC: Last Train Home
In Lixin Fan’s Last Train Home, Chinese migrant workers Suqin and Changhua Zhang have left behind their two children to…
Posted on November 29

90SC: Videocracy
Italian television is notorious for its smut and misogyny. Its programming consists almost entirely of soft-core soap operas and game…
Posted on October 25

90SC: Flying: Confessions of a Free Woman
In Flying: Confessions of a Free Woman, award-winning filmmaker Jennifer Fox travels the globe interviewing women from a variety of…
Posted on September 19

90SC: Oblivion
Oblivion (El Olvido) is Heddy Honigmann’s tribute to the working people of her hometown, Lima, Peru. In a quiet, intimate,…
Posted on August 23

90SC: Protagonist
Protagonist, by Jessica Yu, is an artful documentary about four men who face obstacles, reach a point of crisis and…
Posted on July 26

90SC: Señorita Extraviada
Señorita Extraviada, by Lourdes Portillo, is a frightening documentary about the assault, rape and murder of women in Juarez, Mexico.…
Posted on June 16

90SC: Our House
Our House opens with a gray, natural light that both illuminates and flattens the gritty texture of the building’s roof.…
Posted on May 24

90SC: El General
A dubious truism claims that, sooner or later, all filmmakers make a documentary about their grandparents. In El General, Natalia…
Posted on April 26

90SC: History And Memory
In this 90-second clip, from Rea Tajiri’s History and Memory: For Akiko and Takashige, a personal family story suddenly intersects…
Posted on March 26

90SC: The Betrayal
Directed by Ellen Kuras and the film’s main subject Thavisouk Phrasavath, THE BETRAYAL spans 23 years following the Phrasavath family…
Posted on February 20