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Capote
In one of the year's most astonishing performances as diminutive author Truman Capote, Philip Seymour Hoffman catapults from stalwart charactor actor to true movie star, with a fascinatingly detailed portrayal of one of America's more complex celebrities. |
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Nine Lives
These nine glimpses into women's lives are oddly resonant — whether because of, or in spite of, the film's crafty gimmicks and broken narratives. |
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Land of Plenty
German director Wim Wenders provides a socially conscious view of poverty and paranoia in an America somewhat resembling the real one. |
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New York Film Festival
One thing that stands out about this year's New York Film Festival is the arrival in America of what was once a very European form of social-realist cinema.
• Reviews: Bubble, Capote, Don't Move, Regular Lovers, Through the Forest |
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Bubble
Factory employees struggling to get by are the focus of Steven Soderbergh's "Bubble." |
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One Bright Shining Moment
An admiring documentary tells the story of George McGovern — not just the guy who got clobbered by Nixon but the one who inspired a generation and opened the political system to social change. |
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Seattle International Film Festival
Seen and heard at the Seattle Film Festival.
• Reviews: 9 Songs, After the Day Before, Cape of Good Hope, Frozen, Junebug, Land of Plenty, Max and Grace, The Real Dirt on Farmer John, The Syrian Bride, Yes |
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New Directors / New Films
The New Directors / New Films festival delivers unexpected stories from around the world, from the occupied Palestinian territories to the Budapest subway.
• Reviews: The Hero, Junebug, Private, South of the Clouds |
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Philadelphia Film Festival
The Philadelphia Film Festival may leave its mark on you with its bevy of provocative Japanese sexploitation flicks, but you might also have designs on extraordinary offerings from the courtrooms of Paris, the subways of Budapest or the frozen north of England.
• Reviews: Crying Out Love in the Center of the World, Evilenko, Frozen, Land of Plenty, Machuca, Oldboy, Or (My Treasure), Winter Solstice, Woman Is the Future of Man, The World |
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The Real Dirt on Farmer John
A flamboyant, cross-dressing, hippie-loving, third-generation farmer — beaten down by debt, drought and the resentment of his community — saves his farm from the crash by being different. |
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The Definition of Insanity
An actor's comically absurd struggles reveal the humanity behind the hopelessness of creative life. |
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Joint Security Area
An intelligent murder mystery set at the only meeting point between North and South Korea, whose tragic solution reveals the war zone's tension between hate and humanity. |
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Nightingale in a Music Box
A talk-heavy but crisp and tantalizing mind-game involving a woman who finds herself the victim of a top-secret memory-eating bacterium. |
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Private
Elemental fear and the struggle for dignity thicken the air in a Palestinian family's house taken over by Israeli soldiers in this tense thriller. |
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Crying Out Love in the Center of the World
An unabashedly melodramatic but meticulously and sweetly made Japanese story of doomed young lovers. |
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Escape Artists
Houdini-style escape artists, street magicians, fetish performers and other urban adventurers try to handle the angst of life on the Lower East Side. |
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