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How one Jewish woman's crusade became the year's most talked-about documentary

JL;DR SUMMARY Laura Poitras' documentary "All the Beauty and the Bloodshed" captures the compelling story of artist Nan Goldin's crusade against the Sackler family, notorious for their role in the opioid crisis. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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AddictionDocumentaryActivismArtMuseumsSackler FamilyNan GoldinOpioid EpidemicLaura PoitrasP.A.I.N.

Places mentioned

Venice, Italy
"Ever since I caught the film at the Venice International Film Festival, Ive been struggling to understand, let alone articulate, what makes the film so grandly, epically powerful."
Berlin, Germany
"after a wrist surgery in Berlin."
London, United Kingdom
"Some have even refused their donations; at the National Portrait Gallery in London, Goldin made her participation in a 2019 exhibition conditional on the museum rejecting a million-pound donation."
Munich, Bavaria, Germany
"A.J. Goldmann is a writer and critic based in Munich, Germany."
New York, United States
"Having introduced the trauma at the heart of Goldins suburban middle-class Jewish upbringing, the film follows her to New York, where she moved at 24, living in a loft on the Bowery and working at a Times Square bar called Tin Pan Alley that was a haven for a cross-section of the citys outcasts."
Silver Spring, Maryland, United States
"who at the age of 18 took her life by lying down in the path of an oncoming train near Silver Spring, Maryland."

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