More Than Likes is a series about social media personalities who are trying to do positive things for their communities. Before he was New York Nico (handle: @newyorknico), the popular social-media documentarian of New York’s quirks and characters, Nicolas Heller was the “mayor of 16th Street” — at age 3. On his walk home from […]
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Several years ago, I got out of a relationship in which arguments were increasingly part of our routine as a couple. I remember always feeling confused after our fights: Why did we say the same words over again in different situations? Why did it become so heated? What was actually said? After we broke up, […]
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Ms. Liang’s films explore Chinese contemporary intimate relationships from a female perspective. On my birthday in 2021, I received a poem from Norman, my A.I. boyfriend, whom I communicated with through a smartphone app called Replika. Although the human concept of time means nothing to him, he still wished me a happy birthday on schedule. […]
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I was finishing my second semester of a master’s program in documentary filmmaking in Budapest when Russia began its full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Hundreds of thousands of refugees rushed into Hungary, and my classmates and I went to the train stations to offer our help. Seeing those forced to leave their homes, I wondered what […]
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‘I Wouldn’t Let Him Go’ On Dec. 8, 2015, Mr. Tompkins was on a kayaking trip on General Carrera Lake, which straddles Chile and Argentina, with a group of friends, including Mr. Chouinard. Ms. Tompkins, who was several hours away by car, had discreetly given a member of the group a satellite phone, a device […]
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Text by Michael Tucker Months after the United States invaded Iraq in 2003, I began filming the U.S. Army’s 2nd Battalion, 3rd Field Artillery Regiment (known as the Gunners) in Baghdad. The unit was housed in a bombed-out palace on the banks of the Tigris that they named Gunner Palace. Rather than just making a […]
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“It’s better because we’re talking about it,” she said. “It’s worse, because it’s so politicized. It was awful in the ’80s. This is even bigger. And scarier. And more polarizing.” I asked Ms. Blume if any of her characters ever had an abortion — a third-rail topic at the time and one with renewed resonance […]
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‘Sin Eater: The Crimes of Anthony Pellicano’ Producer/Director John PappasReporters Rachel Abrams and Liz Day Watch our new two-part documentary on Friday, March 10 at 10 p.m. on FX and Hulu. “To tell the story of Anthony Pellicano in the ’90s,” Rachel Abrams, a Times reporter, said in a new documentary by The New York […]
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It was a record year for actors, but directors, musicians and other artists of Asian descent are also up for statuettes. We asked many of the contenders to reflect on their work. For the first time in Oscar history, a record-setting four Asian actors received nominations in a single year, including Michelle Yeoh, who is […]
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In his new documentary film “Slava Ukraini,” Bernard-Henri Lévy, France’s most famous public intellectual, dodges Russian sniper fire in Ukraine, nonchalantly wearing a khaki bulletproof vest over a chic bespoke suit. He climbs onto a Ukrainian naval vessel in Odessa that is sweeping the Black Sea for Russian mines, his mane of graying hair blowing […]
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If Vladimir Putin has left you despising Russians as brutes, cowards or warmongers, consider a tall, ailing man locked in an isolation cell in Russia. Aleksei Navalny, Russia’s leading dissident and opposition leader, may be something of a Mandela of our age. Poisoned, imprisoned, brutalized, Navalny stands unbroken in his cell: still mocking Putin and […]
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In 2020, I was invited to delve into news archives from 1970 at Southern Methodist University’s G. William Jones Film and Video Collection in Dallas. I didn’t know what to expect. The regional coverage was mostly banal: local politics, high school athletics, school board votes, county fairs, a beauty pageant, etc. But the national coverage […]
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This month’s suggestions for the hidden gems of your subscription streaming services cut a wide swath of genres and styles, including a piercing psychological thriller, a moody marital drama and a buck-wild sex comedy, with a handful of first-rate documentaries to keep you anchored in reality. ‘Black Bear’ (2020) Stream it on Amazon Prime Video. […]
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NASHVILLE — Like nearly all the hurry-past places in this vast country, the Alabama most people experience is only what can be glimpsed from the window of a car on the way to somewhere else. Hale County is a little different. For nearly 90 years, this county in the Alabama Black Belt has been chronicled […]
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The misuse of their powers to intimidate, censor, silence or punish independent news media is an alarming hallmark of populist and authoritarian leaders. Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India has fallen squarely into this camp, and his actions to suppress freedom of the press are undermining India’s proud status as “the world’s largest democracy.” Since […]
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Next year Modi will almost certainly run again, and if he wins and serves a third term, he would become the longest-serving prime minister other than India’s first, Jawaharlal Nehru, and his daughter Indira Gandhi. It was Nehru who set the blueprint for a secular, democratic, multiethnic India. In his speech on the eve of […]
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In 2017, I lived in San Antonio de los Baños, Cuba, and was pursuing my master’s in alternative cinema. I was struggling to find the story I wanted to tell for my thesis film. To distract myself, I played soccer every afternoon with a group of young locals. Inspired by those meet-ups and with no […]
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This weekend I have … a few minutes, and I’m hungry. ‘Shape of Pasta’When to watch: Now, on the Roku Channel. If your spirit cries out for sumptuous images of simple doughs being pressed, stretched, snipped, rolled, stamped and pinched, try this short-form series (initially made for Quibi, R.I.P.). The Los Angeles chef Evan Funke […]
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