Hal Ashby's 1976 biography of Woody Guthrie begins well, with some wonderfully aimless footage of life in the Dust Bowl, and builds detail as Guthrie migrates west to the promised land of California, only to find the conditions there no better than those he's left.
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Agnes Varda's 1991 tribute to her husband Jacques Demy (who died of AIDS about six months before this premiered at the Cannes Film Festival) combines dramatic sequences portraying his provincial childhood, documentary footage shot during his final days, and critical interpolations of scenes from his films.
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A bitter, alcoholic novelist (Morgan Freeman) moves into a lakeside cabin to crank out a long-delayed western but spends most of his time bonding with the woman next door (Virginia Madsen) and her three daughters.
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Studio Ghibli—the Japanese outfit that produced Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away, and Howl's Moving Castle—favors traditional anime style, but this goofy 1999 comedy, its first digital project, features cartoonish characters and minimal, pastel-shaded backgrounds.
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Produced for Japanese TV by the highly regarded animation outfit Studio Ghibli, this 1993 romance tells the story of a Tokyo university student whose return to his rural hometown for a high school reunion stirs up memories of a love triangle between him, his best friend, and a bubbly city girl.
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A steely performance from Robert Duvall anchors this 1974 crime flick, adapted from a Donald Westlake novel and directed by action specialist John Flynn (Rolling Thunder).
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