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Dec 20, 2002
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A struggling academic (Olaf Lubaszenko) decides to make some money on the side by writing people's thesis papers and finds himself falling for one of his clients, the girlfriend of a powerful gangster.
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Aug 3, 2007
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This 2006 video comedy by Adedapo Akisanya may be short on budget and technique, but its concept is refreshingly original.
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Jul 2, 2009
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A digitally altered version of Steven Spielberg's 1982 feature that includes scenes shot for but not used in that release, enhances or alters several details (including a substitution of the word “hippie” for “terrorist”), and deletes a few others (such as the guns carried by policemen).
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Oct 26, 1985
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A program of experimental film and video paired with electronic sound, featuring work by Doug Lussenhop, Anthony Mathile, Jason Ajemian, Chris Clepper, Jeff Economy, and Carolyn Faber.
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Oct 30, 2014
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During the Balkan conflict, Human Rights Watch created the "Emergencies Team" to plunge into war zones and investigate unfolding atrocities; according to HRW veteran Fred Abrahams, a harrowing photograph taken by the E-Team in Serbia and published in the New York Times transformed the debate over the conflict in the Clinton White House.
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Aug 14, 1985
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Steven Spielberg's 1982 film achieves the level of decent, middling Disney—Old Yeller, for example, rather than Snow White or Pinocchio—which is to say that the childhood myths being promulgated here are rather basic and unadorned, without the baroque touches and psychological penetration Disney could muster at his best.
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Aug 10, 2007
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Legendary exploitation filmmaker Doris Wishman died in 2002 with this not-so-scary horror video mostly shot; it was completed four years later.
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Oct 26, 1985
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One of the best essay films ever made on a cinematic subject, Thom Andersen's remarkable and sadly neglected hour-long documentary (1974) adroitly combines biography, history, film theory, and philosophical reflection.
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Dec 3, 2004
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A young woman diagnosed with cancer tries to orchestrate a romantic union between her boyfriend and her cousin in this 2003 feature by Xavier Giannoli.
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Oct 26, 1985
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Rudolph Valentino is an aristocrat turned outlaw in a ponderous 1925 costumer adapted rather liberally by Clarence Brown from Pushkin's Dubrovsky.
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Nov 27, 2014
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The eagle is a decorated World War I flying ace (Fredric March) increasingly haunted by all the men he's shot down; the hawk is his fierce copilot (Cary Grant), who doesn't mind killing German parachutists in the air on the theory that every fatality gets them closer to victory.
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Jun 7, 2018
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There’s no narrative punctuation in this Japanese nautical adventure (1957), though director Umetsugu Inoue generates a sense of spectacle in a rousing climactic set piece shot during an actual typhoon.
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Sep 18, 2008
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Working in the finest tradition of brain-dead blockbusters, director D.J. Caruso (Disturbia) and executive producer Steven Spielberg take a script riddled with absurdities and throw millions and millions of dollars at it.
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Oct 26, 1985
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Michael Caine leads a gang of Nazi paratroopers in a last-ditch attempt to win World War II by kidnapping Winston Churchill.
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Nov 10, 2016
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Otto Bell makes an impressive directing debut with this stirring documentary, about a 13-year-old Kazakh girl who becomes the first eagle huntress in 12 generations of her family and only the second competing huntress in the modern history of Kazakhstan.
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