Sundance audiences are notorious for their optimism, embracing mediocre indies that quickly flop in the real world. But occasionally, festival fans get it exactly right, shining the spotlight on small, special films that need the extra boost. Last year's recipient of those well-earned accolades was "Precious." This year, it's Lisa Cholodenko's "The Kids Are All Right."
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Kids across America are hiking, boating, practicing archery and doing arts and crafts today, as they're well into their second week of summer camp. I never went to overnight camp, so all I know of it is what I've seen in the movies: Meatballs, Friday the 13th, The Parent Trap, Little Darlings, Sleepaway Camp, Addams Family Values, Ernest Goes to Camp. These and more showed me what I was missing a
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Chaplin may have enjoyed being regarded as the premier film artiste and the silent era's great artist for much of the 20th century, but everyone knows by now that he was a winkingly clever, crass, desperate populist compared to Buster Keaton. Though only moderately successful in his heyday, and ruined with the coming of sound, Keaton has emerged unchallenged as the greatest American filmmaker tha
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Strand Releasing has acquired all US rights to Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s “Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives.” The deal was negotiated between Strand’s Jon Gerrans and Michael Weber of “Boonmee” sales agent The Match Factory.
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