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Paltrow and Black suck together.

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Mass hypnosis

Big bellies fail to elicit belly laughs.

McDormand in her '80s hairstyle days.

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Blood Simple

Have the Coen brothers infected our cinema?

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A director and his demon

Talking to Bill Condon, director of 'Gods and Monsters.'

The Fabulous Moolah (left) gets tough.

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Lipstick & Dynamite

Also: My Summer of Love and Mysterious Skin.

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Fresh product

Two films straight from the filmmaker to you.

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Seattle Human Rights Film Festival

Hard truth and soft rhetoric at a political film fest.

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SIFF diary

Crowds, transit tips, sightings, and best bets.

Flower girl Michiko Hada ponders her circumscribed existence.

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Flowers of Shanghai

Stunning beauty from Taiwan's Hou Hsiao-hsien.

The decomposing animator profiled in Ryan.

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Academy Award–Nominated Shorts

Also: Dear Frankie, Downfall, Nobody Knows, and Up and Down.

Ice-cold Kitano.

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Immigrant song

Mobsters arrive, rise, and fall.

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The Usual Suspects

THE USUAL SUSPECTS (SPECIAL EDITION) MGM Home Ent., $24.98 QUENTIN Tarantino influenced the vocabulary of countless ’90s crime…

Stab or Scream? Posey, Cox, Arquette, and Arquette.

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Scream 3 Preview

What's to come...

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Videodrome

Criterion Collection, $39.95

The Marx Brothers Collection

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The Marx Brothers Collection

Warner Home Video, $59.92

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Comedian

Buena Vista Home Ent., $29.99

What's the French word for schmuck? Charles Berling reproached by Arielle Dombasle.

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L’Ennui

May-September romance, from France.

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In the spotlight

Director explores dissonance between singer and song.

Silverman on the street.

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Sarah Silverman: Jesus is Magic

Runs Fri., Dec. 2–Thurs., Dec. 8, at Varsity.

AfroReggae finds a voice.

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Favela Rising

Showing at Grand Illusion, Fri., July 14–Thurs., July 20. Not rated. 80 minutes.

Director/star John Cameron Mitchell in Hedwig.

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SIFF Strategy

Festival can't win every battle—can it?