Pier Paolo Pasolini's first film is neo-neorealism, set in the slums and back alleys familiar from De Sica and Fellini but directed with a cold dispassion that belongs to Pasolini alone.
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John Davies's Irish feature criticizes the media's treatment of the ongoing violence in Belfast through the story of an English camera crew that arrives to do a TV documentary on a typical Catholic child (1983).
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Sublimely stupid, this collegiate farce plays like a cross between Animal House and Ferris Bueller's Day Off, though the undercurrent of adolescent rage kept reminding me of Wild in the Streets, the 60s trash classic about teenagers taking over the U.S. government.
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This program of ten videos by young, mostly “minority” people, organized by the media activist group Paper Tiger Television, focuses on the familiar themes of personal and group identity.
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Two programs of work by young people: Justice/Police Brutality features documentaries and PSAs about tensions between police and young people, and Methods of Change examines communications media and community organizing.
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A stash of rare World War I photos preserved by a small museum in Prague inspired Chicago media execs Bruce Bendinger and John Iltis to trace the history of the "Czechoslovak Legion," a force of 70,000 Czechs and Slovaks who were instrumental in the Allied victory.
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Lawrence Kasdan's comedy-drama, based on Anne Tyler's novel, reunites the two stars of Body Heat, Kasdan's first feature, William Hurt and Kathleen Turner.
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Jennifer Reeder (White Trash Girl) directed this quiet but commanding story of a frosty publishing executive who moves into her sister's apartment after she commits suicide.
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In Paris during the German occupation an impoverished 20-year-old pianist (Romane Bohringer) goes to work as an accompanist and all-around servant for a famous classical singer (Elena Safonova) who, along with her businessman husband (Richard Bohringer, Romane's father), is a known collaborationist.
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After the battered body of a rent boy is pulled out of the Rhone, two Lyonnaise homicide detectives (Gilbert Melki and Emmanuelle Devos) begin canvassing his teenage peers, sifting through his cell phone records, and tracing his recent online activities.
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