FILM & DOCUMENTARY

July 16, 2021 • View in browser

Anthony Bourdain’s Lasting Impact on How We Look at Food and Travel

A new documentary is coming out about Bourdain, but one could learn even more about his ethos by looking at the various TV programs he hosted. | Caitlin Quinlan

The Story of La Veneno, Spain’s Badass Trans Superstar

The HBO Max series Veneno embraces all of the media personality’s colorful life, including the messier parts. | Juan Barquin

Hong Sang-soo’s Latest Film Probes How People Portray Themselves

The Woman Who Ran has a laid-back vibe and relaxingly repetitious structure, but that conceals a complex character study. | Ren Scateni

An Eight-Hour Film Captures the Rhythms of Farming Life in Rural Japan

The Works and Days is a quiet epic, using its length to capture the rhythms of rural life and its desecration by urbanization better than any conventional movie could. | Forrest Cardamenis

Wes Anderson’s Latest Conjures a Confectionary Vision of France

The infamously elaborate director’s new film takes us to Ennui-Sur-Blasé, where employees of a US newspaper get into whimsical capers. | Sophie Monks Kaufman

A Coming-of-Age Film That Sidesteps Cliché

Ena Sendijarević’s debut feature, Take Me Somewhere Nice, follows a young Bosnian refugee as she sets off to visit a native country she no longer knows. | Eileen G’Sell

Now In Theaters

A Portrait of Trans Masculinity in the Story of a Jazz Musician

The documentary No Ordinary Man is not just a biography of Billy Tipton, but also a critical lens on how culture has depicted trans men. | Caden Mark Gardner

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