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When you think of exotic parrots, it's unlikely that a major urban center like New York, London or San Francisco comes to mind. And yet, over the past 10 years or so, flocks have flourished in these a...
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Published: Jul 11, 2006
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After watching Alex Gibney's new documentary Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room, one feels the distinct urge to shower. But the grime of white-collar greed, shocking government complicity, and the i...
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Published: Jul 11, 2006
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David Corn says he's "more a journalist than I am an idealogue," but separating the two is not somethng he's likely to do as the liberal token on Fox News' "O'Reilly Factor."
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Published: Jul 07, 2006
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An interview with Russian artist Vitaly Komar, co-founder of the Sots Art movement, who has continually explored the question - 'What is art?'
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Published: Jul 07, 2006
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You might think that when the former U.S. Secretary of Labor writes a play about politics, it's going to be a heavy-handed diatribe against the Radical Right. Not so, according to Robert Reich.
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Published: Jul 07, 2006
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Ballets Russes is not a great work of art itself, but it does document some talented men and women of all different backgrounds who came together for a few decades of ballet .
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Published: Feb 09, 2006
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The new Swiss film Gar�on Stupide is about overindulgence in the meaningless things in life, while denying oneself everything important and human about us.
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Published: Feb 09, 2006
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Pawel Pawlikowski's My Summer of Love is not a perfect film. It starts off sluggish and the pacing is uneven, but the acting is exceptional.
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Published: Feb 08, 2006
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Everything is Illuminated is a rather conventional film in quirky clothing. It has its charm, but the one thing that needs to be illuminated - the main characters - happens too late.
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Published: Feb 08, 2006
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Separate Lies is a complex, thought-provoking piece, but only on an abstract, intellectual level. It isn't really entertaining in the sense of being able to escape into a film and live vicariously thr...
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Published: Feb 08, 2006
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Rodrigo Garcia's Nine Lives is a drama in the most extreme sense. There are no moments of lightness to permeate the darkness of this patchwork quilt of feminine misery and despair.
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Published: Feb 08, 2006
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Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont undoubtedly invites comparisons to the daring Harold and Maude, directed by Hal Ashby in 1971. But while both films center on the relationship between a young man and an ...
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Published: Feb 08, 2006
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After attending the screening with me for George Clooney's new film Good Night and Good Luck, my mother-in-law asked "do you consider that a documentary?" Her question brought to light some interestin...
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Published: Jan 09, 2006
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Bennett Miller's Capote shows us the dual life of Truman Capote during the time when he was writing In Cold Blood, between 1959 and 1965.
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Published: Jan 09, 2006
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I caught up with filmmaker Mary Harron ("American Psycho", "I Shot Andy Warhol") at this year's Provincetown International Film Festival. She shares her thoughts on the subject of her upcoming biopic ...
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Published: Jan 04, 2006
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Grizzly Man is ostensibly a documentary about a wildlife activist who literally lived among grizzly bears in Alaska for 13 summers before being killed by one in 2003. But in Director Werner Herzog's h...
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Published: Dec 27, 2005
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Joe Wright's 2005 film adaptation of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, starring Keira Knightley and Matthew Macfadyen, is an excellent version of this story, incorporating truly cinematic storytellin...
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Published: Dec 16, 2005
