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Dr. Strangelove - 40th Anniversary Special Edition (Two-Disc) (1964) |
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12:38 pm EDT, Oct 10, 2004 |
"You can't fight here! This is the war room!" DVD Features: "No Fighting in the War Room or: Dr. Strangelove and the Nuclear Threat": new documentary including interviews with Bob Woodward, Robert McNamara, Roger Ebert, and Spike Lee; "Best Sellers: Peter Sellers Remembered"; Interview with Robert S. McNamara, Secretary of Defense under President Johnson; Collectible scrapbook with original production photos and an essay written by Roger Ebert Dr. Strangelove - 40th Anniversary Special Edition (Two-Disc) (1964) |
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Truth Stranger Than 'Strangelove' |
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12:33 pm EDT, Oct 10, 2004 |
"Dr. Strangelove," Stanley Kubrick's 1964 film about nuclear-war plans run amok, is widely heralded as one of the greatest satires in American political or movie history. For its 40th anniversary, Film Forum is screening a new 35 millimeter print for one week, starting on Friday, and Columbia TriStar is releasing a two-disc special-edition DVD next month. One essential point should emerge from all the hoopla: "Strangelove" is far more than a satire. In its own loopy way, the movie is a remarkably fact-based and specific guide to some of the oddest, most secretive chapters of the Cold War. Truth Stranger Than 'Strangelove' |
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5:56 pm EDT, Aug 21, 2004 |
Three interconnected stories about the different strata of life in Mexico City all resolve with a fatal car accident. Octavio is trying to raise enough money to run away with his sister-in-law, and decides to enter his dog Cofi into the world of dogfighting. After a dogfight goes bad, Octavio flees in his car, running a red light and causing the accident. Daniel and Valeria's new-found bliss is prematurely ended when she is injured in the accident. El Chiro is a homeless man who cares for stray dogs and is there to witness the collision. Amores Perros |
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1:37 am EDT, Aug 18, 2004 |
American Airlines subjected its passengers to this movie on a recent coast-to-coast flight. It was easy enough to plug my headphones into my iPod and avoid the audio. It was considerably harder to keep my eyes open and get some real work done without having this fake-80's-hair Kurt Russell continually popping into my field of view. (Go to the Photos section and see for yourself.) Boeing and Airbus should incorporate electronic voting systems for the proper democratic selection of in-flight movies. Miracle (2004) |
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The Resurrection of 'Donnie Darko' |
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2:16 am EDT, Jul 22, 2004 |
On Friday a director's cut of "Donnie Darko" will open in New York. To prevent the events of that world from happening in this one, Donnie must turn back time or watch it turn back around him. "It's designed to be this puzzle, There's a lot to chew on." The resolution, such as it is, involves the complexities of time travel wormholes, tangent universes and so forth in a way that asks larger questions about free will. The Resurrection of 'Donnie Darko' |
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9:16 pm EDT, Jul 18, 2004 |
Marlon Brando, who was considered by many to be one of the greatest actors in American movie history, died on July 1st, at the age of eighty. Here, from 1957, is a long Profile of Brando by Truman Capote. The Duke In His Domain |
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A Mule's Long Trek in Search of the North American Dream |
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1:25 pm EDT, Jul 17, 2004 |
This gripping Colombian film, written and directed by Joshua Marston, follows the desperate plunge of Maria Alvarez (Catalina Sandino Moreno) from a dead-end job as an assembly-line worker in a Colombian flower factory into the drug-smuggling underworld. Maria's journey from Bogotá to New York in a plane with three other smugglers is one of the tensest flights ever filmed. "Maria Full of Grace" sustains a documentary authenticity that is as astonishing as it is offhand. Even when you're on the edge of your seat, it never sacrifices a calm, clear-sighted humanity for the sake of melodrama or cheap moralizing. Even the airport interrogators aren't monsters, just everyday officials efficiently carrying out their duties. A Mule's Long Trek in Search of the North American Dream |
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12:27 pm EDT, Jul 4, 2004 |
Enter the name of an actor or actress. The Oracle of Bacon |
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Marlon Brando, Oscar-Winning Actor, Is Dead at 80 |
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12:33 pm EDT, Jul 3, 2004 |
Marlon Brando, the rebellious prodigy who electrified a generation and forever transformed the art of screen acting but whose obstinacy and eccentricity prevented him from fully realizing the promise of his early genius, died on Thursday at a Los Angeles hospital. He was 80. Simply put, in film acting, there is before Brando, and there is after Brando. And they are like different worlds. Marlon Brando, Oscar-Winning Actor, Is Dead at 80 |
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10:40 am EDT, Jun 24, 2004 |
Ben Sanderson, a hard-core alcoholic, drives to Las Vegas after being fired from his film production job and divesting himself of all possessions. He plans to drink himself to death within four weeks. He meets Sera, a prostitute; they fall in love and he moves in with her. Each pledges not to try to change the other's chosen destiny, and they carry on a romance over Ben's last weeks. Leaving Las Vegas |
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