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Oct 26, 1985
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Robert Wiene's groundbreaking 1919 silent, the most famous and influential work of the German expressionist cinema, involves a mad doctor (Werner Krauss) and the somnambulist who does his bidding (Conrad Veidt).
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Jun 26, 2008
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The parenthetical of the Romanian title--California Dreamin' (Nesfarsit)--translates not only as “endless” but as “unfinished,” and given the film's history, both meanings seem appropriate.
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Oct 26, 1985
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A celebratory primer (2000) by Spanish director Fernando Trueba (Belle Epoque) on Latin jazz, a genre that can range from a Dizzy Gillespie big-band arrangement to a Charlie Haden ballad.
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May 11, 2007
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Anthony Giacchino's dramatic 2006 documentary revisits the 1971 burglary of a draft office in Camden, New Jersey, by Catholic pacifists protesting the Vietnam war.
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Dec 2, 2010
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Olivier Assayas—the brilliant director of Summer Hours (2008), Demonlover (2002), and Irma Vep (1996)—chronicles the 20-year career of international terrorist Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, popularly known as Carlos the Jackal.
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Apr 29, 2010
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Produced on a shoestring by TV journalist Bob Bowdon, this factual and well-reasoned advocacy documentary presents a devastating conservative critique of public education in New Jersey and, by extension, the United States.
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Dec 30, 2010
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Not to be confused with Alex Gibney's recent documentary Casino Jack and the United States of Money, this is the dramatic take on Jack Abramoff's high-rolling career as a Washington lobbyist and his precipitous fall amid charges of fraud, conspiracy, and tax evasion.
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Jan 24, 2003
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A radiant Simone Signoret dominates Jacques Becker's 1952 film, which is based on a Paris underworld incident of 1898 that is, in some ways, the French parallel to the legend of Frankie and Johnny.
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Oct 26, 1985
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Like most people with a cat phobia, Val Lewton, the legendary producer of RKO's horror cycle, was fascinated by them.
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Nov 27, 2012
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Ken Burns steps outside his sepia-toned comfort zone to revisit the savage rape of an upper-class jogger in New York's Central Park in April 1989, and the gross miscarriage of justice that followed.
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May 12, 2003
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Jean-Pierre Melville's austere heist film, made in 1970, was his next to last; it opens with a Buddhist aphorism about fate binding two men to meet again, and ends with a police chief pronouncing all men ultimately guilty.
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Mar 17, 2011
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The title of this 2010 French release translates more precisely as "true or faithful copy," which may give you a better idea where Iranian writer-director Abbas Kiarostami (Taste of Cherry) is going with it.
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Feb 14, 1986
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A terrifically entertaining comedy-thriller (1963), perfectly crafted by Stanley Donen from an ingenious screenplay by Peter Stone.
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Oct 26, 1985
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Don Siegel wants to turn the tables on the paranoid fantasies that have animated some of his best films (Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Madigan, Dirty Harry), but he never lets this get in the way of his impressive sense of humor and undisputed mastery at constructing an action film.
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Apr 12, 1985
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Also known as The Lonely Wife, this relatively early (1964) film by Satyajit Ray (The World of Apu), based on a Tagore novel of Victorian India, may be the first of his features in which he really discovers mise-en-scene, and it's an exhilarating encounter.
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