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My Undesirable Friends: Part 1 - Last Air in Moscow streams on MUBI beginning April 3.

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30 for 30: A Brief History of Hot Docs Highlights

by Marc Glassman Barri Cohen Pat Mullen
April 27, 2023
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The POV team marks 30 years of Hot Docs by looking back at some of the many names and documentaries that defined the festival.

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Curiosity, driving trucks, and a dash of Roland Barthes: A POV interview with Paul Jay

by Marc Glassman Barri Cohen
October 1, 2007July 14, 2025
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"I’ve never thought of what I do as a career. Maybe from the outside it looks like a career, but it was mostly a series of accidents," says Paul Jay.

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An archival image of rocker Carole Pope seated in a backwards folding chair. She is wearing a black leather jumpsuit and boots. This is a cover for POV issue #125 with the letters POV in bright pink and the subtitle The Antidiva in yellow.

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Antidiva: The Carole Pope Confessions spotlights the career of the Rough Trade rocker.

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