Films

I Wish I Knew – ★★★

Jia Zhangke’s 2010 Chinese documentary “I Wish I Knew” (传奇) is an elegant, poetic portrait of the port city of Shanghai. To mark its 10th anniversary, the film was released in the US for the first time in January 2020. People of different ages tell of their personal experiences in the rapidly changing political conditions

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The Tale – ★★★½

The ARTE Media Library is currently streaming Jennifer Fox’s 2018 American HBO TV movie “The Tale”. In her autobiographical feature film debut, the director deals with her own processing of sexual abuse in a relationship in her childhood. Jennifer Fox (Laura Dern) is a documentary filmmaker and professor of documentary. A rediscovered school essay that

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