‘Inside’: Written and shot in a single room, Bo Burnham’s comedy special, streaming on Netflix, turns the spotlight on internet life mid-pandemic.Here are some of the highlights selected by The Times’s TV critics: Television this year offered ingenuity, humor, defiance and hope.
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In an article in The New York Times after Bigelow’s victory, Manohla Dargis wrote that the film “didn’t just punch through the American movie industry’s seemingly shatterproof glass ceiling it has also helped dismantle stereotypes about what types of films women can and should direct.” In 2010, Kathryn Bigelow became the first woman to win that directing award with “The Hurt Locker,” Bigelow’s tense drama about an Army unit that detects and disposes of I.E.D.’s in Iraq. At the Oscars last month, Chloé Zhao became the second woman ever to win the Academy Award for best director, and the first woman of color ever to do so. “All of them, even the horrific ones, are an existential record of my life.”
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“I never throw away photos, unless they are blurry,” she wrote in “Where the Past Begins,” her 2017 memoir. The film also contains a multitude of family photos and home videos, of which Tan is a particularly rich source. That fact adds a layer of melancholy to this portrait of Tan, which is built around interviews with the author and with other writers including Kevin Kwan and Isabel Allende. The filmmaker James Redford was just completing this documentary about the writer Amy Tan (“The Joy Luck Club,” “The Bonesetter’s Daughter”) when he died in October at 58.
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MondayĪMERICAN MASTERS: AMY TAN - UNINTENDED MEMOIR 9 p.m. Here are some of the shows, specials and movies coming to TV this week, May 3-9. Between network, cable and streaming, the modern television landscape is a vast one.