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Sigourney Schultz|Cinema
Dispirited Away: In the wrong hands, ‘Ghiblified’ genAI images erode ethos, empathy, and our very humanity
An art historian who grew up inside Pixar Studios reflects on what we lose when art once rendered through deliberate labor and deep care can be reproduced in seconds — and weaponized just as quickly.
Alexis Haut|Interviews
Beauty queenpin: ‘Deli Boys’ makeup head Nesrin Ismail on cosmetics as masks and mirrors
Glamour enlivens heritage and history in Hulu’s genre-bending series about a Pakistani family running an international drug ring from Philly corner stores.
Susan Morris|Cinema
‘The conscience of this country’: How filmmakers are documenting resistance in the age of censorship
Debuting amid a global swell of authoritarianism, this year’s festival standouts are stark, instructive primers on refusing to be silenced.
Nila Rezaei|Essays
"Dear mother, I made us a seat”: a tribute to the women of Iran
Alexis Haut|Cinema
It’s Not Easy Bein’ Green: ‘Wicked’ spells for struggle and solidarity
On the ruby-slippered heels of DO editor-in-chief Ellen McGirt’s conversation with Wicked director Jon M. Chu, columnist Alexis Haut decipherates the film’s lessons for a design community going through shiz.
Alexis Haut|Cinema
About face: ‘A Different Man’ makeup artist Mike Marino on transforming pretty boys and surfacing dualities
On the cusp of Oscar Sunday, we’re talking award-winning makeup that gets under the skin.
Alexis Haut|Analysis
Innies see red, Innies wear blue: Severance’s use of color to seed self-discovery
With Apple’s most beloved show back on the airwaves after three long years, DO’s film columnist pens a valentine to all the ways season one used red to spell Innie liberation.
Jessica Helfand|Essays
Véronique Vienne : A Remembrance
Alexis Haut|Cinema
‘The creativity just blooms’: “Sing Sing” production designer Ruta Kiskyte on making art with formerly incarcerated cast in a decommissioned prison
Sing Sing is a movie that takes place in a prison, but it’s not a prison movie.
Jessica Helfand|Interviews
Josef Koudelka, Next: A Visual Biography: Ten Questions for Melissa Harris
“It was essential that I humanize Koudelka and extricate him from the more reductive and pedestaled realm of myth where so many position him," says Harris.
Susan Morris|Reviews
DOC NYC: Music
A welcome clutch of films about women in music were shown at DOC NYC 2024.
Susan Morris|Reviews
DOC NYC: Art + Illness
DOC NYC featured films about making art, and art intersecting with illness.
