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• Oscar-Nominated Shorts: Sweet, Sincere, Cloying, Beautiful

  By Tim Grierson | Wed, February 01, 2012

  Of the five Academy Award-nominated documentaries, Saving Face and God Is the Bigger Elvis were sadly not made available for critics, but the other three address significant moments in recent world history from the perspective of the firsthand wit... More >

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  "Declaration of War": The Art of Emotional Struggle

  By Karina Longworth | Wed, January 25, 2012

  The gorgeously scruffy Juliette (director and co-writer Valérie Donzelli) and Roméo (co-writer Jérémie Elkaïm) — yes, the improbability is noted — move from dive-bar love-at-first-sight to proud parents of a newborn boy in the first few minutes of... More >

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  "Hipsters": A Jazz Musical for the Young Communist Set

  By Karina Longworth | Wed, January 11, 2012

  "Every hipster is a potential criminal," warns a student communist in Valeriy Todorovskiy's musical period piece. These "hipsters" are, in style and substance, the polar opposite of today's artfully disheveled gentrifiers: In a post-war Moscow whe... More >

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  "Outrage": Aestheticized Violence Is Stylish, If Cold

  By Nick Pinkerton | Wed, December 07, 2011

  Takeshi Kitano's latest finds the actor-director returning to the familiar terrain of the yakuza film after recent farces (Achilles and the Tortoise, Glory to the Filmmaker!) dealing with artistic endeavor. Stark and brutal, Outrage is a litany of... More >

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  "The Other F Word": Doc Gives Confusing, Amusing Lessons on Fatherhood

  By Rob Harvilla | Wed, November 16, 2011

  Flea almost cries. Twice. There's your four-word summation of The Other F Word, a half-poignant, half-absurd documentary on punk-rocker dads that thrills to the sight of, say, Rancid's Lars Frederiksen, who looks like a tattoo parlor and a Claire'... More >

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  david.guilmette

  | Wed, June 08, 2011

  Event Review: Contractor’s Routine | Wed, June 08, 2011

  "Contractor's Routine" is as if Quintin Tarantino made "My Dinner with Andre"...with murder and maddness thrown in.

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  arealcoolhand

  | Wed, December 22, 2010

  The home for most of Landmark's calendar film screenings. Specialty cinema from around the globe.

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