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DVD Review: Au Hasard Balthazar
One of the greatest films of all time defines why art can reach into areas, and elucidate things, no other human activity can come close to.
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DVD Review: Borat
Sacha Baron Cohen's minor comedy classic just may have more staying power than suspected.
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DVD Review: High And Low
A reissued masterpiece by Akira Kurosawa scores high in the Criterion Collection pantheon.
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DVD Review: Vampyr
Carl Theodor Dreyer's horror classic gets the treatment from the Criterion Collection folks, and it's a winner!
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DVD Review: Rescue Dawn
Werner Herzog's triumphant return to fictive filmmaking in over a decade.
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Movie Review: The Chronicles Of Narnia - Prince Caspian
A disappointing sequel that suffers from too many familiar Hollywood ills.
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DVD Review: Autumn Sonata
Ingmar Bergman's oddly neglected chamber piece is the work of a master.
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Book Review: The Philosopher At The End Of The Universe by Mark Rowlands
A romp through sci fi films to get at the deeper questions that propel them.
A collection of short stories on losers that is written the way a loser would....
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Book Review: The Race Card — How Bluffing About Bias Makes Race Relations Worse by Richard Thompson Ford
A Stanford law professor pens a classic on how to approach racism in a world where the very notion is passé.
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