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Editor's Hotseat
By Margaret Wolf Freivogel, Beacon Editor

We aim to give you the highest quality reporting and most interesting commentary. That's why the Beacon has added some new features.

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Everyone has their reasons

Lens: May 2008
By Robert Hunt
Last Updated ( Thursday, 29 May 2008 )

Is Jean Renoir the "best director, ever"? Check out what Peter Bogdanovich says and see whether you agree.

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The week in preview

Lens: May 2008
By Cliff Froehlich
Last Updated ( Thursday, 29 May 2008 )

Cinema St. Louis is springing out of hibernation with a trio of offerings -- and they are free.

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EVERYTHING = CINEMA

Lens: May 2008
By Robert Hunt
Last Updated ( Thursday, 29 May 2008 )

Richard Brody's book, "Everything is Cinema: The Working Life of Jean-Luc Godard," inspires reflection on the work of the intellectually challenging artist.

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Down the YouTube

Lens: May 2008
By Robert Hunt
Last Updated ( Thursday, 29 May 2008 )

Film buff Robert Hunt mines YouTube for long-sought treasures and comes up with a motherlode.

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Mashup that works

Lens: May 2008
By Robert Hunt
Last Updated ( Thursday, 29 May 2008 )

Check out the combination of Michael Jackson and Fred Astaire.

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Transcending reality

Lens: May 2008
By Robert Hunt
Last Updated ( Wednesday, 28 May 2008 )

Recommended reading: Michael Wood on Robert Bresson.

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Cracker Barrel Retaliation is Discrimination

Law Scoop
By William Freivogel
Last Updated ( Tuesday, 27 May 2008 )

The U.S. Supreme Court expanded the law's protection for workers who face retaliation after they complain of race and age discrimination. See the full story.

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Sydney Pollack, 1934-2008

Lens: May 2008
By Robert Hunt
Last Updated ( Tuesday, 27 May 2008 )

Sydney Pollack, director, producer and surprisingly effective character actor, was one of a handful of filmmakers who emerged in the early days of television drama and graduated to a successful career in feature films, establishing himself in the late '60s and '70s as the director-of-choice for some of the most prominent movie stars of the New Hollywood.

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Western roundup

Lens: May 2008
By Cliff Froehlich
Last Updated ( Tuesday, 27 May 2008 )

Our friends at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch are conducting another of their movie-genre shootouts, this time asking readers to vote for their favorite Western. Although the merit of these polls, which the American Film Institute has taken to absurd lengths (and depths) with its 100 Years series, remains debatable, list-making has the undeniably salubrious effect of making us aware of films not yet seen and prompting us to revisit movies we need to see yet again.

Joe Holleman constructs an inarguably respectable Top 20 Westerns, with the acknowledged masters of the genre represented by multiple entries and taking up more than half the list:

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