“I don’t psychoanalyze my sources,” the legendary investigative reporter Seymour Hersh tells Director Laura Poitras early on in “Cover-Up” (2025).…
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The toaster that pops in Ruth Goldman’s (Kathleen Chalfant) immaculate kitchen early on in Sarah Friedland’s “Familiar Touch” might as…
Before a potentially perilous moment captured in Les Blank’s “Burden of Dreams,” Werner Herzog rallies the cast and crew of…
Around the midway point of Victor Erice’s “Close Your Eyes,” Miguel (Manolo Solo) picks up a guitar and croons “My…
In a recent New York Times profile, Jack Fisk, ace art director for Terrance Malick’s “Days of Heaven” recalled the…
A seminal entry in the sub-genre of ugly things happening to beautiful people in beautiful places, Jean-Luc Godard’s “Contempt” is…
“Jake says, ‘You dumb f–ck,’ and Joey says, ‘You dumb f–ck,” and they repeat it and repeat it. And I…
To be a Bob Fosse heroine is a tough gig, if you got it. Shirley MacLaine’s ‘Charity’ is a bleeding-heart…