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'Come Back, Africa' powerfully presents 1959 apartheid

As an historical record, the recently restored 1959 film Come Back, Africa is stunning. Secretly made to reflect the ...

'First Position' strikes a sloppy pose

In the sloppily made documentary First Position, producer/director and co-editor Bess Kargman follows six aspiring ba...

'Bernie' charms Carthage, Texas and the audience

As his films show, Richard Linklater has an offbeat take on people in general and humor in particular. His characters...

Cinematography Present & Future, a Master Class

The digital revolution in filmmaking has caused a lot of changes within the past few years and cinematographers have ...

2012 Doc Challenge Finalists Announced

Twelve finalists have been announced for the 2012 International Documentary Challenge.

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Superman won't rush to the rescue

In the first minutes of Davis Guggenheim's Waiting for "Superman," educator Geoffrey Canada says that one of the worst days of his young life occurred when his mother told him that Superman didn't exist.

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A pleasant romp through Soul Kitchen

Soul Kitchen starts off energetically, sporting high production values and establishing immediate conflict in several areas: work, romantic relationships and among family members. The story centers on the Hamburg, Germany, warehouse turned into a rather wildly disorganized eatery called Soul…

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Alamar dives deep into different lives

As much an ethnographic study as a feature film, Alamar (To the Sea) finds father Jorge Machado picking up his son Natan from his Italian ex-wife Roberta. A brief introduction explains the idyllic Caribbean romance that produced Natan before Roberta…

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Jack Goes Boating and reels in emotional complexity

Jack Goes Boating takes a snapshot of four fairly ordinary, New York working-class people, warts and all. Clyde and Lucy have some history buried in their relationship which enters a precarious phase. Jack and Connie have just begun their involvement,…

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Screening Room: Israeli Doc Challenge 2010

The Israeli Doc Challenge has wrapped up for 2010! Twelve short films with subjects ranging from the search for an Israeli superhero and a questionable modern day messiah to overcoming loneliness and facing your garbage man. All made in 5…

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Cinephilia series: Nightmares in Red, White, and Blue

Webster University's Cinephilia series continues with Nightmares in Red, White and Blue: The Evolution of the American Horror Film. In it, writer/director Andrew Monument traces the changes exhibited in the horror genre over the course of cinematic history.

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