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Dag Hammarskjöld was a Swedish diplomat who became Secretary-General of the United Nations in 1953. Some called him a compromise candidate who was…
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Luz comes billed as a horror film, but what gets under your skin has nothing to do with monsters roaring out of the basement, or down from outer space, --…
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Back in 1994, when Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction premiered at Cannes, a publicist for the film said two things about the picture – that it was 20…
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When farce is good, the nuttiness and improbability aren’t quite random. You can feel through the clamor that there’s a point to it, and that the chaos on…
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The Third Wife, by first-time Vietnamese filmmaker Ash Mayfair, moves with the slow but unstoppable force of the river at the start of the film. The…
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On its surface, Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am looks like they typical documentary about a famous person. It’s a mélange of interviews with Morrison,…
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Moe Berg was born in 1902. His Jewish parents had immigrated to the United States from Eastern Europe during the great waves of Italians, Jews and others…
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Martin Scorsese’s reputation tends to fix on his creepy, violent stuff. Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, Shutter Island. Or the great crime films like…
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Pierre-Paul (Alexandre Landry) could be the most worried-looking guy in the history of the movies. At the start of Denys Arcand’s The Fall of the American…
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Echo in the Canyon is a movie for white boys probably over the age of 50. Its subject is the legitimately fabulous concentration of folk-rock music that…