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Margarethe von Trotta’s “Vision: From the Life of Hildegard Von Bingen,’’ portrays the practical minded 12th-century Benedictine nun, mystic, botanist,…

First-time director Jeff Malmberg’s “Marwencol” explores trauma and creativity in this stunning portrait of one man’s homemade therapy.In April of…

Any new film from Doc-master Frederick Wiseman (“Titicut Follies”) is cause for celebration. Wiseman, at 80, is still a one-man…

In addition to the numerous documentaries at this year’s Hamptons International Film Festival (reviewed in an earlier article), I was…

Visually striking, Brides opens up with a little known, actual event that took place in 1920s Asia Minor— the transatlantic…

Based on J.R. Ackerley’s 1956 portrait of his gleefully trangressive, unspayed pet Tulip, “My Dog Tulip” is a special treat…

Pedro González-Rubio’s “Alamar”-A photo-slide show of romantic scenes between Roberta (Roberta Palombini) and Mexican tour guide Jorge (Jorge Machado) celebrate…

An opening scene takes us to the chastity of lush groves amidst sunny Palestinian farmlands and the innocence of an…

Clustering around the fictitious wedding between young, sweet, and narcoleptic Rym (Sarah Reguieg) and “a certain William Vancooten,” Masquerades lampoons…

Charles Ferguson’s brilliant “Inside Job” documents the endemic greed of the financial sector, whose foray into decades of fraud destroyed…