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Off the Radar: ‘Blue’ is 79 minutes of a single color addressing the injustices of the AIDS crisis

Off the Radar is a weekly column surveying overlooked films available to students for free via NYU’s streaming partnerships. “Blue” is available to stream on Kanopy.
Nicolas Pedrero-Setzer, Arts Editor April 15, 2022

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Off the Radar: ‘Funeral Parade of Roses,’ a surreal peek into the psyche of a Japanese subversive

Off the Radar is a weekly column surveying overlooked films available to students for free via NYU’s streaming partnerships. “Funeral Parade of Roses” is available to stream on Kanopy.
Amira Aboudallah, Contributing Writer April 8, 2022

A woozy, nonlinear combination of experimental and documentary-style filmmaking, Toshio Matsumoto’s “Funeral Parade of Roses” (1969) is an exploration of the underground...

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Off the Radar: ‘La Haine,’ a harsh reality transcending time and place

“Off the Radar” is a weekly column surveying overlooked films available to students for free via NYU’s streaming partnerships. “La Haine” is available to stream on Kanopy.
Amira Aboudallah, Contributing Writer April 1, 2022

“La Haine” (1995), directed by Mathieu Kassovitz, is a French film that transcends social and political geographies as well as time. Although the film takes place in France...

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Off the Radar: ‘The Gleaners and I’ and the art of picking up what’s left behind

“Off the Radar” is a weekly column surveying overlooked films available to students for free via NYU’s streaming partnerships. “The Gleaners and I” is available to stream on Kanopy.
Amira Aboudallah, Contributing Writer March 25, 2022

“The Gleaners and I” (2000), directed by Agnès Varda, is a documentary about people in France who are invested in the tradition of gleaning. Gleaning is the act of picking...

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Off the Radar: ‘Pather Panchali,’ the poetic low-budget film that put Indian cinema on the map

“Off the Radar” is a weekly column surveying overlooked films available to students for free via NYU’s streaming partnerships. “Pather Panchali” is available to stream on NYU Stream.
Amira Aboudallah, Contributing Writer March 11, 2022

With a technical crew of first-timers, Satyajit Ray’s debut film “Pather Panchali” (1955) became the first internationally critically acclaimed Indian film. Its success is...

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Off the Radar: ‘Monsoon Wedding’ offers a window into Indian tradition

“Off the Radar” is a weekly column surveying overlooked films available to students for free via NYU’s streaming partnerships. "Monsoon Wedding" is available on NYU Stream.
Indranil Basu, Contributing Writer March 4, 2022

“Monsoon Wedding” is a 2001 Hindi-English language drama film directed by Mira Nair. It is, like “Salaam Bombay!” (also available on NYU Stream) and most of her other films,...

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Off the Radar: ‘The Fallout’

Introducing “Off the Radar,” a new weekly series from the Film & TV editors that surveys overlooked films available to students for free via NYU’s streaming partnerships.
Shreya Wankhade, Contributing Writer February 28, 2022

An unlikely pair bond together following a traumatic school shooting in HBO’s new original film “The Fallout.” Vada (Jenna Ortega), a chill and unapologetic tomboy, would...