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.
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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.
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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).
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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