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  • Oct 26, 1985

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    This Super-8 feature by Boston-area filmmaker Luther Price is at once an essay on failure and a barely coherent mess, its violations of narrative grammar so consistent that they become a statement. more...
    • by Fred Camper

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  • Jul 19, 2005

  • A.I. Artificial Intelligence

    A collaboration between the living Steven Spielberg and the late Stanley Kubrick seems appropriate to a project that reflects profoundly on the differences between life and nonlife. more...
    • by Jonathan Rosenbaum

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  • Apr 28, 2006

  • A Is for Auschwitz

    Sixteen-year-old Zach Smilovitz of suburban Detroit interviews his grandparents, both Holocaust survivors. more...

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  • Nov 22, 2002

  • A la mode

    A retooling by Miramax (new beginning, new ending, new title) of a 1993 French movie called Fausto—a first feature by Remy Duchemin about a 17-year-old orphan whose life changes when he becomes the apprentice of an eccentric Jewish tailor (Jean Yanne). more...

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  • Mar 30, 2007

  • A Lawyer Walks Into a Bar . . .

    Too slick and sound-bitey for its own good, this documentary about U.S. lawyers aims for the smart-aleck tone of its title while throwing out punchy statistics as if it were a PowerPoint presentation. more...
    • by Jonathan Rosenbaum

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  • Oct 26, 1985

  • A Nos Amours

    A 15-year-old French girl (Sandrine Bonnaire, extraordinary) finds refuge from her troubled family in a series of casual sexual encounters. more...
    • by Dave Kehr

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  • Jul 2, 2004

  • A nous la liberte

    Rene Clair's 1931 satire on industrialization was overshadowed for many years by Chaplin's Modern Times and then forgotten, though its recent release on DVD has given it a second—and well-deserved—lease on life. more...
    • by Jonathan Rosenbaum

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  • Oct 8, 2004

  • A tout de suite

    In Benoit Jacquot's excellent Sade (2000), lissome French ingenue Isild Le Besco gave a seductive performance as a teenage girl corrupted by the legendary marquis. more...
    • by J.R. Jones

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  • Oct 8, 2004

  • Aaltra

    Benoit Delepine and Gustave de Kervern's 2004 Belgian comedy in black-and-white 'Scope follows a couple of feuding farmers paralyzed in a tractor accident who travel together to confront the company that built the machine. more...
    • by Jonathan Rosenbaum

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  • Nov 22, 2002

  • Aardvark

    A “mockumentary” video by Ken Hegan about two actors trying to stage a play. more...

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  • Oct 26, 1985

  • Aaron's Magic Village

    A 1995 animated musical based on stories by Isaac Bashevis Singer, this tale takes place in a village where the wise men make bad puns, the craftsmen rationalize shoddy work in repetitive solos, and a golem conjured by an evil sorcerer threatens the bumblingly righteous populace with mindless destruction. more...
    • by Lisa Alspector

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