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Oct 26, 1985
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Sidney Lumet returns to his special stomping ground—the workings of the New York Police Department and justice system, and how they're affected by racial antagonisms and ethnic loyalties—in a richly detailed, caustic thriller, adapted by Lumet himself from a novel by Hispanic judge Edwin Torres.
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Mar 14, 2008
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A competitive screening of student works on “queer” and LGBT themes.
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Dec 19, 2003
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A frenetic 1939 spy spoof starring two of Britain's greatest actors, Ralph Richardson and Laurence Olivier.
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Aug 20, 2004
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A Ray Harryhausen-ish remake of The Giant Claw from exploitation maestro Larry Cohen (God Told Me To), about a winged serpent of Aztec legend that terrorizes New York and encamps at the top of the Chrysler Building.
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Oct 26, 1985
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Mas'ud Kimiai's highly influential and reportedly neorealistic 1996 Iranian feature was supposedly seen by almost half the population of Tehran upon its release.
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Jan 14, 2005
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Leon Uris's novel about a Jewish doctor mistakenly implicated in Nazi war crimes was produced as a miniseries in 1974, with Anthony Hopkins in the lead role.
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Oct 26, 1985
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Franc Roddam's 1979 film of the Who's rock opera aligns sociological observation and romantic fantasy to create an extravagant, involving teenpic with a responsible intellectual grounding.
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Mar 21, 2003
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The skillful writer-director Henri-Georges Clouzot is mainly known for his corrosive misanthropy.
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Oct 26, 1985
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A 2004 independent feature about two graffiti artists living in San Francisco's Mission District.
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Aug 22, 2003
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A middling program of aggressively self-indulgent videos that focus on the sleazy side of life.
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Nov 6, 2008
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A few years back, the easy sexism and narcissism of the James Bond series looked dated to the point of obsolescence, but Quantum of Solace proves that a revenge motive is just what's needed to rejuvenate all the Bond cliches.
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Nov 6, 2008
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A few years back, the easy sexism and narcissism of the James Bond series looked dated to the point of obsolescence, but Quantum of Solace proves that a revenge motive is just what's needed to rejuvenate all the Bond cliches.
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Oct 9, 2008
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Jennifer Carpenter used to get typecast as a preppie, but after hurling herself about as the title character in The Exorcism of Emily Rose, she's graduated to a more remunerative gig as a horror scream queen.
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Oct 26, 1985
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Somewhere in South Africa, fate tempts a man already wanted for an unspecified crime (John Lynch) to kill a minister on the way to a new post in an isolated town.
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May 10, 2016
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Four films about love by four African-French directors.
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