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  • Oct 26, 1985

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    This Super-8 feature by Boston-area filmmaker Luther Price is at once an essay on failure and a barely coherent mess, its violations of narrative grammar so consistent that they become a statement. more...
    • by Fred Camper

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  • Jul 19, 2005

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    A.I. Artificial Intelligence (PG-13)

    A collaboration between the living Steven Spielberg and the late Stanley Kubrick seems appropriate to a project that reflects profoundly on the differences between life and nonlife. more...
    • by Jonathan Rosenbaum

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  • Apr 28, 2006

  • A Is for Auschwitz

    Sixteen-year-old Zach Smilovitz of suburban Detroit interviews his grandparents, both Holocaust survivors. more...

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  • Nov 22, 2002

  • A la mode

    A retooling by Miramax (new beginning, new ending, new title) of a 1993 French movie called Fausto—a first feature by Remy Duchemin about a 17-year-old orphan whose life changes when he becomes the apprentice of an eccentric Jewish tailor (Jean Yanne). more...

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  • Mar 30, 2007

  • A Lawyer Walks Into a Bar . . .

    Too slick and sound-bitey for its own good, this documentary about U.S. lawyers aims for the smart-aleck tone of its title while throwing out punchy statistics as if it were a PowerPoint presentation. more...
    • by Jonathan Rosenbaum

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  • Jul 2, 2004

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    A nous la liberte

    Rene Clair's 1931 satire on industrialization was overshadowed for many years by Chaplin's Modern Times and then forgotten, though its recent release on DVD has given it a second—and well-deserved—lease on life. more...
    • by Jonathan Rosenbaum

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  • Feb 1, 2016

  • AAIC: Leonardo da Vinci (NR)

    Art & Architecture in Cinema presents an exploration of the works and personality of one of the most inventive artists in the world. more...

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  • Mar 14, 2016

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    AAIC: Monet to Matisse (NR)

    Phil Grabsky (In Search of Beethoven) directed this documentary about artists' use of the garden as revealed in exhibits at the the Cleveland Museum of Art and the Royal Academy in London. more...

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  • Oct 8, 2004

  • Aaltra

    Benoit Delepine and Gustave de Kervern's 2004 Belgian comedy in black-and-white 'Scope follows a couple of feuding farmers paralyzed in a tractor accident who travel together to confront the company that built the machine. more...
    • by Jonathan Rosenbaum

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