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“Youth Without Youth”

Another movie about ancient mysticism directed by another member of the George Lucas family tree has just been widely released, but it couldn't be...
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Rental Unit: “Kurt Cobain: About a Son”

It's startling to hear Kurt Cobain speak in "About a Son," a pseudo-documentary about the late rock star that blends cinematography inspired by his...
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“Goya’s Ghosts”

Looked at from afar, history can seem like merely a series of coincidences, often unfortunate ones. That view prevails in Milos Forman's new film,...
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King of California

In "King of California," a self-reliant teenager (Evan Rachel Wood) holds down the family mortgage without need of parental oversight until her dope-smoking, jazz-playing,...
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“Martin Scorsese Presents: Val Lewton: The Man in the Shadows”

Though "the bus" is now a catch-all phrase for a cinematic fake-out, originally it referred to an actual bus. In Jacques Tourneur's 1942 film...
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Rental Unit: “The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford”

It might sound odd to hear that "The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford" is not a Western. It's a movie...
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“Rocket Science”

The breakthrough success of movies such as "Juno" inspires a legion of titles trying to capture the same fervor. For every "Juno" there are...
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“Klimt”

I wish director Raoul Ruiz had cut the ends off his movie about the painter Gustav Klimt. It wants desperately not to be a...
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Rental Unit: “Reservation Road”

You may wonder why a mainstream movie with such name actors as Mark Ruffalo and as big a star as Joaquin Phoenix never made...
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Rental Unit: “The Heart is a Lonely Hunter”

It seems that Oprah's book club doesn't bring old books back to just the best-seller lists. Her touch may be inspiring the rerelease of...
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