Paul Dano brings his big-eyed woe to the anomalous role of an angry, leather-clad rocker, who arrives in a small town to finalize his divorce settlement and comes face to face with the six-year-old daughter he's blown off for most of her life.
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Judy Garland and Gene Kelly add charm and verve to the great songs and Busby Berkeley's so-so direction in this 1942 romance about two vaudevillians around the time of World War I. Watching Garland and Kelly doing "Ballin' the Jack," "Oh, You Beautiful Doll," "Smiles," and a dozen or so other corny classics is eminently worth the price of admission.
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A band of more than two dozen mentally or physically disabled musicians is the focus of this documentary, which includes interviews and concert footage.
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In this 2011 documentary, a predominantly Arab American high school football team from a Detroit suburb prepares for its crosstown rivalry game during the final days of Ramadan.
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This 2008 feature by Yim Soon-rye tells the story of a group of former Olympian handball players who join a team of younger players and learn about themselves.
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In this drama by William Wedig, a father tries to reconnect with his teenage son after having served a prison term for killing the boy's mother.
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King Vidor turned Ayn Rand's preposterous “philosophical” novel into one of his finest and most personal films (1949), mainly by pushing the phallic imagery so hard that it surpasses Rand's rightist diatribes and even camp (“I wish I'd never seen your skyscraper!”), entering some uncharted dimension where melodrama and metaphysics exist side by side.
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Four tales about Reinette (Joelle Miquel), a country girl who paints and operates according to certain principles, and Mirabelle (Jessica Forde), her less rigorous friend from the city; they meet in the country in the first episode and share an apartment in Paris during the remaining three.
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A supporting role in David Cronenberg's Eastern Promises inspired veteran Polish filmmaker Jerzy Skolimowski to return to directing after a 17-year absence; the result is as creepy and menacing as much of Cronenberg's oeuvre, with a heavy dose of European fatalism thrown in.
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Andrew Jacobs's moving documentary observes a group of elderly eastern European Jews who, 25 years ago, bought a Catskills resort where they spend their summers.
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