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Film

No Place for Sissies

Alexander Zaitchik / Truthdig Aug 30, 2024 An octogenarian filmmaker turns his camera down life’s homestretch. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

Media

Freddie deBoer / Truthdig Aug 30, 2024 The columnist-turned-host still has the ability to conceive of a better world. He just lost the ability to be ruthlessly honest about what it takes to build it. Dig deeper ( 10 Min. Read )

Film

A Spanish Master Comes Full Circle

Siddhant Adlakha / Truthdig Aug 22, 2024 Victor Erice’s “Close Your Eyes” is a deeply personal valedictorian meditation on memory, mortality and cinema. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )

Media

Phil Donahue, 1935-2024

Jeff Cohen / Common Dreams Aug 20, 2024 Remembering TV’s most progressive daytime host, fired for giving airtime to Iraq War opponents. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Film

Surviving the Cruel Saga of Canada’s Indigenous Boarding Schools

Ed Rampell / Truthdig Aug 16, 2024 “Sugarcane” chronicles the cruel intergenerational saga of Canada’s Indigenous boarding schools. Dig deeper ( 8 Min. Read )

Book Review

A Neurodivergent Odyssey of the Self

Maya L. Kapoor / Undark Aug 10, 2024 In “Do I Know You,” Sadie Dingfelder describes the challenges of living with prosopagnosia, or face blindness. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

Social Justice

‘Wake the Children Sleeping’: James Baldwin at 100

Abby Zimet / Common Dreams Aug 9, 2024 Remembering the novelist, essayist and fiery prophet teacher of the Civil Rights movement. Dig deeper ( 11 Min. Read )

Film

The Irish Rap Rebellion

Siddhant Adlakha / Truthdig Aug 2, 2024 The hip-hop trio Kneecap fights the power in a fun, self-reflexive biopic. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

TD Interview

Woody Guthrie’s Shack Becomes a Shrine

Ed Rampell / Truthdig Aug 1, 2024 An interview with Ellen Geer about her actor father, the Red Scare and growing up with a famous folk singer in a cottage that’s now a museum. Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )

TD Original

Citizen Noogie

Jim Knipfel / Truthdig Jul 25, 2024 Why a novelist gave the major Hollywood studios the brush in favor of a young, first-time filmmaker with no money. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )

TD Original

Discipline and Profit: The Origins of the Private Prison

Paul Von Blum / Truthdig Jul 19, 2024 A Harvard historian explores the roots of the for-profit carceral state through the tragic tale of a 19th-century African American teenager. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )

Film

The Limits of Being a Fly on the Wall

Siddhant Adlakha / Truthdig Jul 18, 2024 With unprecedented access to the Taliban, the documentary “Hollywoodgate” makes promises it can’t keep. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )