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Apr 2, 2004
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Readers of Erik Larson's The Devil in the White City already know about Holmes, the "Monster of 63rd Street" whose Englewood mansion concealed numerous torture chambers and who murdered countless people before he was discovered and hanged in 1896.
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Oct 26, 1985
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Robert Young is the New England businessman looking back at his youth in King Vidor's 1941 adaptation of John P. Marquand's best-seller.
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Oct 26, 1985
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H-bomb tests in the Pacific create oozing radioactive creatures that attack and dissolve humans in this Japanese sci-fi flick from 1958, directed by Ishiro Honda (Godzilla).
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Oct 26, 1985
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Shot clandestinely over three and a half years, Stephanie Black's documentary about the exploitation of Jamaican and other Caribbean sugarcane workers in Florida is a good example of investigative reporting of outrages that occur under our very noses—good enough to win the prize for best documentary at the 1990 United States Film Festival.
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Apr 15, 2005
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This 2003 Venezuelan feature suffers from a strange disconnect between its first and second halves.
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Oct 26, 1985
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Directed by Detlef Sierck shortly before he became Douglas Sirk, this Nazi-era vehicle (1937) for superstar Zarah Leander evokes the semiracist ambience of an Esther Williams-Fernando Lamas musical of the 50s.
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Oct 26, 1985
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An experimental Argentinean feature (1989) by Jorge Acha about torture at a clandestine detention center in the late 70s and early 80s.
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Nov 10, 2016
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With a title that translates as "Foam Bath," this feature-length animation (1979) by Hungarian painter and filmmaker György Kovásznai reveals a gift for jazzy, kaleidoscopic storytelling.
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Apr 25, 2013
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This American-Palestinian coproduction paints a vivid picture of daily life in the occupied territories, though it's fairly heavy-handed as drama.
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Oct 26, 1985
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This is-she-or-isn't-she-a-vampire movie is efficient enough at digesting genre tropes.
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Oct 26, 1985
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In his powerful and original video Fast Trip, Long Drop (1993), Chicagoan Gregg Bordowitz examined his life since learning that he was HIV positive; this eye-opening sequel (2001, 52 min.)
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Aug 18, 2011
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A professor (Richard Gere) forges a bond with an abandoned dog in this 2009 drama by Lasse Hallstrom.
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Apr 11, 2003
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Set in Chicago, Ricardo Islas's 2002 video is a tiresome pseudodocumentary about the making of his earlier epic, a Spanish-language horror flick called Amor Brujo.
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Nov 7, 2003
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Janusz Zaorski, whose feature A Happy New York played in the 1997 Polish Film Festival in America, directed this 2002 feature about two kids who get into trouble as computer hackers.
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Aug 28, 1995
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Without being any sort of miracle, this engaging and lively exploitation fantasy-thriller (1995) about computer hackers, anarchistic in spirit, succeeds in representing computer operations with some visual flair.
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