In the 1950s, five young North American Christian missionaries and their families went to the Amazon region of Ecuador to…
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The New World consists mostly of heroic vistas of the Virginia woods and coastal swamplands, of English sailing ships of…
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Germany has never been noted for its comedic output. In all the history of Germany theater, only the comedies of…
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Born in 1938 in Berlin, German film director, writer, actor, and producer Michael Verhoeven is best known to English-speaking audiences…
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Film school graduate Robert Thalheim’s first feature-length narrative film, Netto, casts a loving, yet not at all blind, eye on…
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A sumptuous epic and war drama, The White Countess marks the end of the Merchant-Ivory collaborative endeavor, which began in…
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In Following Sean award-winning documentary film maker Ralph Arlyck starts from a simple proposition: whatever happened to Sean, the four-year-old…
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In 2004 Pixar brought viewers the middle-aged super-hero in their hit animated film, The Incredibles. Now the Weinstein Company brings…
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After years of slowly dying on the vine under the beating glare of annoyed film critics and frustrated fans, Woody…
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Shot over a three-year period and exploring the demise of the American Dream, Roger Weisberg’s documentary about four minimum-wage workers…
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Before Oscar Wilde there was the Marquis de Sade, and before him there was John Wilmot, second Earl of Rochester….
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A ringer is an impostor, specifically someone who enters a sports competition under false pretenses. In Barry Blaustein’s rude, raucous,…
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