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Giving you our points of view on the latest docs in release and on the circuit.

‘The Golden Girl’ Fights on Principle

The niggling question that The Golden Girl doesn’t quite answer, though, is why the officials should bother now. Răducan’s plight, valid as it is, comes 15 years after the events and the documentary arrives on the 20th anniversary of her disqualification. (The film was shot in 2015 and 2016.) Even some of the parties who are sympathetic to her cause state that the statute of limitations for arbitration was ten years and expired in 2010. Răducan doesn’t account for the delay in her fight and the film lacks a sense of urgency when the outcome feels inevitable. Her fight is one of

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‘Driven to Abstraction’ Is ‘Made You Look’ Without the Laughs

Driven to Abstraction (USA, 84 min.) Dir. Daria Price Not every painting needs to be the Mona Lisa to be admired, but two portraits of the same subject by different artists inevitably inspire unique responses. Such is the case with Driven to Abstraction, Daria Price’s documentary about the art forgery scandal at New York’s Knoedler gallery. The film recounts the same affair as Barry Avrich’s Hot Docs highlight Made You Look: A True Story About Fake Art. Both docs share the wild-but-true tale in which reputable art dealer Ann Freedman was bamboozled by a too-good-to-be-true stash of paintings by artists like Jackson

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‘Flannery’ Review: An odd life that mattered

lannery Dir. Elizabeth Coffman & Mark Bosco Featuring: Mary Steenburgen (narrator), Hilton Als, Sally Fitzgerald, Michael Fitzgerald, Robert Giroux, Mary Gordon, Alice McDermott, Alice Walker, Mary Karr, Tommy Lee Jones, Tobias Woolf Not too many people know who Flannery O’Connor is anymore but those who do embrace her as one of the finest American writers of the 20th century. O’Connor’s reputation stands on an impressive but severely limited body of work. Over the course of her short life—O’Connor died at the age of 39—she produced 32 stories and two novels, all in what was called the Southern Gothic style. That

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