I haven't seen David Henry Hwang's much-praised play, based on an implausible-but-true story, but it's easy to see how the audience's imaginative participation in the central premise could make it work.
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The late John Holmes stars in this X-rated 3-D and 'Scope porn film directed by one “Norm Deplume,” with Hal Walker, Brenda Ram, and Heather Grant.
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You'd think a movie with this much copulating would be erotic, but writer-director Christophe Honore's graphic adaptation of Georges Bataille's novel is so clinically detached it borders on absurd.
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The winsome male lead of this romantic comedy, Vincent Elbaz, is a safety examiner for a French airline who tests pilots in a giant cockpit simulator but is himself afraid to fly.
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Trevor Graham's 1997 documentary follows the battle of Eddie Mabo to reclaim the Murray Islands, in the Torres Strait north of Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, for the islanders.
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This sensitive and at times beautiful 1995 feature by Japanese documentary filmmaker Hirokazu Kore-eda focuses mainly on the second marriage and new life of a young mother whose first husband inexplicably committed suicide.
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John Turturro stars in his own impressive if occasionally rambling first feature (1992), based on his own father, a carpenter who became a contractor, and his Italian immigrant New York family.
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A ten-year-old boy becomes friends with a lost boy from the planet Iapedus in a new fantasy-adventure written by Stewart Raffill and Steve Feke and directed by Raffill.
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This 1996 debut by African director Jose Laplaine provides an insightful view of urban dislocation and the new communities that form in a changing Africa.
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Josef von Sternerg attempted to re-create the ambience of his 1930s Paramount period for this 1952 RKO production; there's no way of knowing whether he succeeded or not, because the film was recut by producer Howard Hughes, with additional scenes directed by Nicholas Ray.
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