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Summer Sequels: The Good, the Bad, and the Good
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Douglas Howe
The summer movie season officially kicks off (are you ready for this?) a week from Friday! May 4th brings us Spider-Man 3—the summer’s first movie release, the first anticipated blockbuster, and the first sequel. Movie sites such as Moviephone and Premiere and papers led by USA Today seem to agree that this is the Summer…
It’s Tribeca Time!
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mkress
One of the true joys of living in New York these days is the Tribeca Film Festival, started in the wake of 9/11 by none other than Martin Scorsese. This year’s extravaganza opens on Wednesday, and as always, the festival’s line-up includes a significant number of films that explore faith and spirituality, matters of the…
‘The Hoax’: A Giant Leap of Faith (or Fraud)
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Donna Freitas
If you haven’t already seen it, make time for “The Hoax,” a riveting film about Clifford Irving that’s based on a true story. In 1971 Irving almost fooled publishing house McGraw-Hill into putting out his utterly fictionalized “authorized autobiography” of reclusive billionaire Howard Hughes. Watching Mr. Irving conceive the idea of the fake autobiography and…
‘Into Great Silence’: An Experiment in Movie-Meditation
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Donna Freitas
Audiences will either find director Philip Gröning’s “Into Great Silence“—an almost three hour film chronicling the silent lives of the Carthusian monks at Grande Chartreuse, a stunning but austere monastery perched high up in the French Alps–a masterpiece or the most boring movie they ever saw. Like the days and nights of this tiny group…
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