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Hikikomori: a middle-class Japanese youth withdrawn from social conventions; engages in all social interaction via computers. The 1990s and early...| Independent Magazine
Senior critic Kurt Brokaw reviews six films from the New York Film Festival that brought New Yorkers to theaters during a massive rainstorm.| Independent Magazine
Senior Film Critic Kurt Brokaw looks at this year's New York Festival to find the highlights among hundreds of features and shorts.| Independent Magazine
Senior Film Critic Kurt Brokaw reviews five narrative dramas, two documentaries and two shorts from the 57th annual NYFF, held Sept.27-Oct.13.| Independent Magazine
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Kurt Brokaw joined The Independent in 2010 as Senior Film Critic, covering New York’s six major film festivals and reviewing individual features and shorts of merit. He was Associate Teaching Professor at The New School for 33 years, and has taught courses on film noir, early lesbian fiction and Jewish-themed cinema at The 92nd Street Y for 15 years. His memoir, The Paperback Guy, was published in 2020.| Independent Magazine
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Dana Knight is a freelance journalist who has been covering film festivals for the past ten years. She studied Film & Media at Birkbeck, University of London and has written for publications as diverse as VICE, Dazed and Confused, The Rumpus, The Independent Film Magazine.| Independent Magazine
Senior Critic Kurt Brokaw reviews the Open Road Italian Film Festival that offers moveis on everything from fashion to politics.| Independent Magazine
Dana Knight interviews Kurdwin Ayub about intercultural film making and their new film, "Mond," at the Locarno Film Festival.| Independent Magazine
Courtney Gardner details their first experience working behind the scenes on a film inspired by a landmark LGBTQ+ parental rights case.| Independent Magazine
Courtney Gardner reviews Jules Rosskam's "Desire Lines" and how to do transmasculine representation right on the big screen.| Independent Magazine
