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Bad Teacher: Cameron Diaz Wishes She’d Done Bridesmaids Instead
Bad Teacher focuses on a school year in the life of Elizabeth (Cameron Diaz), an aging party girl,…
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Conan O’Brien Can’t Stop: The TV Host Manages His Dark Side
“I am angry,” Conan O’Brien admits in Rodman Flender’s tour doc. “I’m trying not to be . . . but sometimes I’m…
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Beautiful Boy: Maria Bello in a Columbine Grief-Fest
One of two current films dealing with the familial fallout of a teenager’s school shooting spree (Lynne Ramsay’s…
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Angel of Evil: An Italian Gangster With “More Balls Than Brains”
After Carlos and Mesrine, it seems European directors can’t get enough of those those bloody ’70s, that bell-bottomed…
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Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives: The Latest Strangeness From Apichatpong Weerasethakul
The acme of no-budget, Buddhist-animist, faux-naive, avant-pop magic neorealism, Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Uncle Boonmee is a movie in which…
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!Women Art Revolution: A Documentary Chronicle of Feminist Art
Like Joan Braderman’s 2009 doc The Heretics, Lynn Hershman Leeson’s lionizing chronicle of the birth, in the late…
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The Tree of Life: Brad Pitt Is Sean Penn’s Father!
Including glimpses of Sleeping Beauty in her glass coffin, the rings of Saturn, and a roadside Texas barbecue,…
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The Trip: Steve Coogan on a Quest to Eat
Director Michael Winterbottom had so much fun making the 2005 Tristram Shandy with comic stars Steve Coogan and…
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Viva Riva!: Crime in Congo
“Your country is the worst shit pile I have ever seen,” César (Hoji Fortuna), an Angolan crime boss,…
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Super 8: J.J. Abrams Creates a Nifty Sci-Fi Mystery
A big-bang demolition derby, J.J. Abrams’ much-anticipated, greatly enjoyable Super 8 seems bound for box-office glory. Set in…
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Beijing Taxi: This City Portrait Leaves a Few Things Out
You know the place: a Neorealist set populated by the young, restless, and dazed of all ages, all…
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Submarine: A Cute Coming of Age in Wales
Oliver Tate (Craig Roberts), a rampant 15-year-old only child, has two presiding preoccupations, detailed in rapid voiceover throughout…
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SIFF Week 4: 15 New Picks & Pans
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 8 Sevdah for Karim 4:30 p.m., SIFF Cinema Ostensibly the story of a tense love triangle…
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YellowBrickRoad: A New Hampshire Hike Into Horror
Eight people venture into the remote woods of northern New Hampshire. Care to guess how many get out…
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SIFF: Week 3 Picks & Pans
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 1 Johan Primero 7 p.m., Everett Ritual is at the heart of Johan Primero, a routine…
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Mia and the Migoo: Knock-Off Miyazaki From France
A plucky young heroine, a mystical quest to save the environment (and a missing father) from callous corporate-military…
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Midnight in Paris: Woody Allen in Warmly Nostalgic Mode
A deceptively light time-travel romance, Woody Allen’s Midnight in Paris uses fairy-tale devices as a way to get…
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True Legend: All the Wuxia You Can Handle. And More
Famed martial arts choreographer Yuen Woo-ping (The Matrix, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon) melds his trademark wirework with gonzo…
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My Perestroika: Sadness in the Old CCCP
Eight-millimeter home movies and statist hymns from the Soviet past haunt Robin Hessman’s documentary of a contemporary Russia…
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L’Amour Fou: Remembering Yves Saint-Laurent
Pierre Thoretton’s documentary opens with unbroken footage from designer Yves Saint-Laurent’s 2002 speech announcing his retirement from fashion,…