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One of several timely films offering a personal and global perspective on Covid-19, Hannah Olson’s medium-length documentary The Last Cruise is a stirring personal account of a tiny but consequential microcosm of Covid: the Diamond Princess cruise, which quickly saw its infections grow from one to eventually 691, 33 days after it set sail. A canary in the coal mine, the Diamond Princess should have offered global health organizations a blueprint for what not to do, and the film quietly makes its outrage known throughout the horrific ordeal.

Capturing the early days of Covid when so much was unknown––prior to jurisdictions throughout the world making mandatory modifications––the film is largely told through the cell phone footage of American passengers and international crew. Starting off like any other vacation home video, we learn the ship sets sail on the day when there had only been four confirmed cases in the world,...

On January 20, 2020 the Diamond Princess cruise ship set sail from Yokohama, Japan. By February 26, the ship accounted for more than half of all the documented coronavirus (Covid-19) cases outside of China, with 700 people on board infected. The cruise ship and its dire predicament — unable to dock or let its passengers […]

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Three years after its last installment, The Girlfriend Experience is finally back: The Starz anthology drama will return for Season 3 on Sunday, May 2, it was announced Wednesday.

As seen in the newly released trailer above, the latest edition stars Julia Goldani Telles (The Affair) as neuroscience major Iris and is set in the London tech scene. “As she begins to explore the transactional world of The Girlfriend Experience, Iris quickly learns that her client sessions provide her with a compelling edge in the tech world and vice versa,” per the official synopsis. “She then begins to question whether her actions are driven by free will,...

March 2021 has been full of reminders of the one-year anniversary of the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic. “The Last Cruise” trailer invokes one of the earliest indicators that something was about the change — the Diamond Princess Curse ship.

The HBO documentary follows one of the earliest Covid outbreaks outside of China. Using footage shot by passengers and the crew, “The Last Cruise” chronicles the moment in time where a cruise ship when from a simple vacation to a fully-fledged nightmare.

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"If we're still reporting this many cases, how are we ever gunna get off the ship?" HBO has revealed the official trailer for the documentary short The Last Cruise, which will be available to watch on HBO later this month. The Last Cruise is a 40 minute doc that's premiering at the SXSW Film Festival this week in the Documentary Shorts Competition section. A terrifying origin story of the pandemic, the film chronicles the first & largest outbreak of the novel coronavirus outside China: the Diamond Princess cruise liner. Through never-before-seen footage from passengers and crew, we watch class divisions erupt as humanity misses its chance to contain Covid-19. It looks like a harrowing film about the coronavirus and how authorities tried to contain it. Probably best as a 40-min short because I don't think anyone can watch a full 90 mins of this. Here's the official trailer (+ poster) for Hannah Olson's doc The Last Cruise,...