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The T.A.M.I. Show

Teen-Age Music International, as played by the Rolling Stones, Marvin Gaye, Gerry and the Pacemakers, Chuck Berry, James Brown, the Supremes, Jan and Dean, Smokey Robinson and the Miracles, and Lesley Gore, captured live at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium in the summer of 1964. more...

• by Dave Kehr

T.N.T. Jackson

Jeanne Bell plays a karate master searching for her brother in this 1974 blaxploitation item. more...

T-Men (NR)

This crisp 1948 thriller marked Anthony Mann's emergence from B movie obscurity, setting him on the path that would lead to his great westerns of the 50s. more...

• by Dave Kehr
• Tags: Crime drama

Ta Dona

Adama Drabo's 1991 Malian feature follows a young forestry-commission employee who leaves his village in search of a plant with mythical healing powers. more...

Ta Ra Rum Pum

A family tries to adjust to the father's injury in an auto race. more...

Taare Zameen Par

An eight-year-old misfit is sent off to boarding school, where his world is opened up by a lively art teacher. more...

Table for Five

Once Kramer vs. Kramer set the style, family melodramas became more and more concerned with the elimination of the mother; this one, directed by Robert Lieberman from a script by David Seltzer (Six Weeks), takes a brutally explicit tack, bumping off mom in a car wreck in order to allow estranged father Jon Voight to reconquer the affections of his three children. more...

• by Dave Kehr

Table One

Michael Scott Bregman directed this 2000 comedy in which Stephen Baldwin and friends open a bar in the hope of picking up lots of women. more...

Tableau Ferraille

Moussa Sene Absa's 1996 French-Senegalese film comments on the problems of a developing Africa. more...

• by Fred Camper

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Tabloid (R)

Errol Morris must have needed a break from life's misery after taking on capital punishment (Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr.), the U.S. debacle in Vietnam (The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons From the Life of Robert S. MacNamara), and the torture at Abu Ghraib (Standard Operating Procedure). more...

• by J.R. Jones
• Tags: Documentary

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Taboo

Poetry and style aren't qualities one ordinarily associates with writer-director Nagisa Oshima, but this dreamlike tale of a beautiful and narcissistic military recruit (Ryuhei Matsuda) in 1865 training to become a samurai warrior, bewitching the men around him, is a triple-distilled example of poetic style. more...

• by Jonathan Rosenbaum

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Tabu

The last film of F.W. Murnau (1931, 82 min.), probably the greatest of all silent directors (he didn't live long enough to make sound films, dying in an auto accident only a few days after work on the synchronized musical score for this masterpiece was completed). more...

• by Jonathan Rosenbaum

Tabu

Based on a Finnish novel by Timo Mukki, Andrzej Baranski's 1987 Polish film focuses on an intense erotic triangle that forms between a young widow, her nearly grown daughter, and a young farmhand. more...

Tabu

Miguel Gomes (The Face You Deserve, Our Beloved Month of August) directed this Portuguese drama (2012) about a woman who seeks out a mysterious figure from her past. more...

The Tactics of Interference

Most of these seven videos advocate resistance to mainstream authority and culture in humorous and inventive ways. more...

• by Fred Camper