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Hulu’s The Bisexual Stands as the First First-Rate TV Series About Queer Women

By Ren Jender
Nov 14, 2018

Akhavan created and cowrote The Bisexual (with her Miseducation cowriter Cecilia Frugiuele) and stars (she also directed four out of its six episodes) in this comedy about an American immigrant in London
Like Most Films, Hearts Beat Loud Should Focus More on Its Women

By Ren Jender
Jun 11, 2018

The main character, this time named Frank (Nick Offerman), like (High) Fidelity's Rob, owns a record store and lectures women about music as if they don't have opinions — or ears — of their own
The Elián González Doc Is a Time Capsule of Bad Behavior

By Ren Jender
May 26, 2017

The documentary Elián posits the story of 5-year-old Elián González, who was rescued off the coast of Florida in 1999 after attempting to leave Cuba with his mother (who drowned) — a long with its aftermath — as the birth of the 24-hour news cycle. More striking here, though, is...
Seven Films We Look Forward to Distracting Us in Early 2017

By Ren Jender
Dec 16, 2016

2017 looks like it won't be an improvement over 2016, so here are some promising films — either reviewed or previewed — to distract you in the next three months. In keeping with the pessimism most of the country is feeling, we’re also considering "what could be bad" in the...
"I Love Chaos": American Honey Director Andrea Arnold on Improvisational Filmmaking

By Ren Jender
Oct 12, 2016

The month before Fish Tank writer/director Andrea Arnold premiered her film American Honey at this year's edition of the Cannes Film Festival (where it won the Jury Prize), she spoke before an audience with director Ira Sachs as part of the Tribeca Film Festival. The following are excerpts of her remarks, edited for clarity...

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