Boyhood: The Moment Seizes You
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Sentimental Value: Between Trauma and the Sublime
In this powerful drama about family and memory, Joachim Trier explores how the past lives on in us, shapes us, and partly determines who we are and how we feel.
Lenny: High-Wire Act
Featuring a quasi-documentary format that was innovative for its time, Bob Fosse’s complex portrait of stand-up comedian Lenny Bruce is a gesture of postmortem outreach from one prickly, jagged-edged artist to another.
Fresh Kill: Fluid Transmission
New-media pioneer Shu Lea Cheang’s astonishingly prescient dystopian vision takes place in a world where technology feels sticky and bodily, and where networks seep into food, water, and flesh.
Body Heat: The Trap You Set for Yourself
In his stylish and provocative directorial debut, Lawrence Kasdan uses the vehicle of a sex-and-murder plot to explore the film’s historical moment, which gave rise to the greed and amorality of the Reagan era.