The ivory-billed woodpecker was thought to be extinct since the 1920s, so when sightings of the bird were reported in eastern Arkansas in 2004 and verified by the ornithology lab at Cornell University, environmentalists responded with something approaching ecstasy.
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Jim Jarmusch's seventh narrative feature (1999) focuses on a solitary inner-city maverick and hit man (Forest Whitaker) who lives on a rooftop with pigeons and has trained himself as a samurai according to the 18th-century book Hagakure: The Way of the Samurai, pledging loyalty to a New Jersey gangster (John Tormey) who once saved his life, whom he communicates with mainly by carrier pigeon.
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French director Rene Clair made his English-language debut with this 1936 Alexander Korda production, about an American millionaire (Eugene Pallette) who ships an old Scottish castle to his estate in Florida for reassembly and finds that he's acquired the family ghost (Robert Donat) along with the family home.
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When directors Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor (Crank, Gamer) are firing on all cylinders—which, in this Marvel Comics adaptation, is about half the time—they make movies that look like no one else's.
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When directors Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor (Crank, Gamer) are firing on all cylinders—which, in this Marvel Comics adaptation, is about half the time—they make movies that look like no one else's.
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Directed by Zhao Dayong, this 2008 documentary presents Zhizilou, a small town in Yunan province, as evidence that the Chinese economic miracle has eroded once-thriving rural cultures by drawing villagers to large cities.
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Filmmakers Asger Leth and Milos Loncarevic plunged into Haiti's most desperate, dangerous slum in February 2004, as President Aristide was losing his grip on power, and came back with a powerful human story about two brothers on the wrong side of history.
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With its eccentric mix of realism and mannerism, London locations and stylish sets, John Ford's 1958 adaptation of a John Creasey novel is decidedly un-Hollywood.
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Jara (Horacio Camandule) works as a night security guard in a Montevideo supermarket and moonlights on weekends as a bouncer in a bar that needs one.
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Set in the 1930s, this film from Luxembourg stars Emmanuelle Devos as a mother of three young children who slowly comes to suspect that her foundry-worker husband (Clovis Cornillac) is having an affair with her beautiful younger sister.
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Small but bursting with energy, this indie comedy follows a pair of teenage taggers from the Bronx over two days as they hustle for the $500 they need to realize their dream of spray-painting the giant apple at Citi Field.
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The title of this 2003 domestic drama refers to a bookshop once owned by the protagonist (Claude Rich), now an elderly cardiac patient consigned to a nursing home by his grown daughter (Sandrine Bonnaire).
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