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Film Interview: A Talk with Filmmaker John Sayles and Actor Edward James Olmos

November 15, 2013
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“It’s easier to make a movie now but it’s harder to get it distributed in a way that people will see it.”

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Film Review: “The Broken Circle Breakdown” — Hang on for the Second Half

November 14, 2013
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The first half of “The Broken Circle Breakdown” is directed in the most conventional way. In the better second half, the leads dig deeply into their characters, sing bluegrass wonderfully.

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Fuse Film Review: “Medora” — Dreaming the Impossible Dream

November 11, 2013
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Director/producers Andrew Cohn and Davy Rothbart have constructed a film that ties the desperation of Medora’s shrinking ambitions to the struggle of its scrappy team to win a single game that could suggest a small hope for the future.

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Film Review: “The Last White Knight” — A Vision of Racism Perpetuated

November 7, 2013
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In the mesmerizing “The Last White Knight,” documentary filmmaker Paul Saltzman chronicles a five-year dialogue with the man who assaulted him during the civil rights movement.

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Film Review: “Let the Fire Burn” — An Important Political Film

November 6, 2013
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em>Historic footage—from newsreels, TV stations once-live coverage, from several investigating commissions- has been edited, brilliantly into a coherent, important political film.

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Film Review: The Stone Roses Bloom Again — “Made Of Stone”

November 4, 2013
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This is a movie that one Stone Roses fan made for other Stone Roses fans to enjoy. There’s nothing wrong with that though, and judged in this way, it’s a winner.

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Film Review: Another Plea for Cormac McCarthy/Ridley Scott’s “The Counselor”

November 2, 2013
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This is one fine neo-noir, expertly directed by Ridley Scott with a host of superlative star turns from Michael Fassbender, Cameron Diaz, Javier Barden, Penélope Cruz, and Brad Pitt.

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Film Review: “The Counselor” — Filled with Dark and Troubling Poetry

October 28, 2013
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Cormac McCarthy’s rambling but brilliant screenplay is given vigorous direction by Ridley Scott, whose elegant visual style captures the tense downward spiral of the film’s doomed characters.

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Movie Review: “12 Years a Slave” — The First Masterpiece of the New Black Cinema?

October 20, 2013
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With 12 YEARS A SLAVE, Steve McQueen, the brilliant British director of HUNGER and SHAME, has probably created the first masterpiece of the new black cinema.

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Film Review: “I Used to be Darker” — A Delicate, Compassionate Story

October 17, 2013
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I Used to Be Darker is a movie of small pleasures, lots of them.

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