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HERE IS WHAT WE KNOW: In 1979, Ana Mendieta, a young, up-and-coming artist fresh off a solo show at the feminist co-op A.I.R. Gallery, met the older, more famous Carl Andre, a so-called founding father of Minimalism. The artists embarked on a romantic and, by several accounts, tempestuous relationship. In 1985, Mendieta died after falling from the window of Andre’s thirty-fourth-floor apartment in New York’s Greenwich Village. He was tried, and acquitted, for her murder. Now eighty-seven, An...

Kamran Nayeri - The slogan “Women, Life, Liberty” offers the political maturity of the current movement compared to the 1979 revolution. Not only it places the oppression of women in Iran front and center, but it also provides a framework to think about the kind of society we need to build after overcoming the current regime. 

At the beginning of The Velvet Underground, the first documentary film by Todd Haynes, a title card appears: “A documentary film by Todd Haynes.” I laughed out loud when I saw it, though not out of derision. I had been waiting for Todd Haynes to make a documentary for a while.

Longtime devotees recall the premieres, festivals and special events that shaped their social and cultural awareness.

A new nonprofit organization dedicated to preserving the 100-year-old movie palace has the support of filmmakers Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola and more.

14/06/2022 - From 16 to 19 June, the 36th edition of the Milano MiX Festival of Gay and Lesbian Cinema and Queer Culture returns with 50 films in competition

14/06/2022 - From 16 to 19 June, the 36th edition of the Milano MiX Festival of Gay and Lesbian Cinema and Queer Culture returns with 50 films in competition

From 16 to 19 June, the 36th edition of the Milano MiX Festival of Gay and Lesbian Cinema and Queer Culture returns with 50 films in competition

14/06/2022 - From 16 to 19 June, the 36th edition of the Milano MiX Festival of Gay and Lesbian Cinema and Queer Culture returns with 50 films in competition

Godfather of US avant-garde film Jonas Mekas fled Lithuania in 1941 as the Nazis advanced, but Yale researcher Michael Casper believes the now-deceased artist misled about his past