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Apr 12, 2016
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A modern take on the The Book of One Thousand and One Nights tale, written, directed, and starring Adam Green.
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May 7, 2010
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German silhouette animator Lotte Reiniger is best known for this enchanting 1926 film—the earliest surviving feature-length animation—that she adapted from one of the stories in 1001 Arabian Nights.
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Dec 23, 2011
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Whenever Steven Spielberg works in his self-conscious blockbuster mode—as in the Indiana Jones or Jurassic Park movies--his action sequences are staged with such precision that they feel like the work of a sophisticated computer program.
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Apr 10, 2009
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Welsh novelist Sarah Waters specializes in Victorian tales of lesbian romance: her debut novel, Tipping the Velvet was adapted into a rollicking BBC miniseries in 2002, and her third novel, Fingersmith, yielded a second series three years later.
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- by J.R. Jones
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Tags: Drama
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Jun 9, 2011
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In this 2010 drama, three Rwandan kids walk the 3,000 miles to South Africa for the 2010 World Cup, gathering a ragtag crew that helps them surmount some obstacles.
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Nov 18, 2010
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Alberto Rodriguez directed this 2009 Spanish drama about three middle-aged friends who reunite for a wild night on the town.
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Feb 23, 2012
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A dysfunctional couple struggle to stay together in this 2011 drama from director Eric Schaeffer.
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Aug 31, 2017
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A recent study by the Pew Charitable Trusts found that, in 2015, about half of adult Chicagoans had never been married, up from 42 percent a decade earlier.
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- by J.R. Jones
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Tags: Drama
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Apr 9, 2015
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As proven by Olivier Assayas (Something in the Air), Bernardo Bertolucci (The Dreamers), and several hundred other European art film directors, there's no political upheaval so important that it can't be turned into a backdrop for the adolescent anger and desire of beautiful middle-class kids.
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May 30, 1985
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The most elegant title for a sequel in film history belongs, happily, to one of the most elegant sequels (1934).
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Mar 24, 2011
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The title of this 2009 indie drama refers to the nimbus left by a complete solar eclipse at the climax, and that turns out to be a pretty good symbol for the film, which promises more illumination than it delivers.
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- by J.R. Jones
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Tags: Drama
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Nov 18, 2010
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Feng Xiaogang directed this Chinese drama, which is based on the true story of a major earthquake in 1976.
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Oct 19, 2015
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Two strangers meet on Haifa's Mount Carmel and change each other's lives in this Israeli comedy.
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Oct 21, 2010
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Documentary maker Vikram Jayanti scored an enviable media "get" when record producer Phil Spector granted him an extended interview in March 2007, a month before he was scheduled to stand trial for the murder of actress Lana Clarkson.
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Jul 15, 2010
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Rachel Weisz stars as Hypatia, a fourth-century philosopher whose school in the famous Library of Alexandria is the only ecumenical institution in a city riven by sectarian violence among pagans, Jews, and Christians.
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