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Mira Nair discusses her roots in documentary, and her eye for social realism as seen in films like
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Christo’s effort with The Floating Piers is captured brilliantly in the new documentary Walking on Water, directed by Andrey Paounov. Christo’s stories have been documented countless times before, but the cameras have
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