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'Exiles' on Hill Street Print E-mail
By Robert Hunt   
Posted 3:24 pm Thu., 12.03.09

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The restoration of a nearly forgotten film, "The Exiles," should be a standard for film preservation. What's as interesting: the movie is worth the effort.

 
'The Damned United' is darn good Print E-mail
By Robert Hunt   
Posted 3:18 pm Mon., 11.30.09

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Even if you have no interest in British football or in who won the European Cup, this film succeeds because of a truly extraordinary performance by Michael Sheen as coach Brian Clough.

 
Another Warhol biography: Why? Print E-mail
By Robert Hunt   
Posted 1:33 pm Wed., 11.25.09

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Authors Tony Scherman and David Dalton can't claim to staking new territory, but their book is strengthened by concentrating on Warhol as an artist, seen within the context of the changes that shook the gallery and museum world from the late '50s through most of the 1960s. A time when he also turned toward film.

 
'Death in the Garden' is a transition piece for Bunuel Print E-mail
By Robert Hunt   
Posted 7:02 pm Mon., 11.23.09

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Luis Bunuel's 1956 “Death in the Garden,” just released on DVD by Microcinema, involves a handful of generally mismatched types – a Bogart-like hero, a prostitute (Simone Signoret), an old miner and his innocent, blind daughter and a priest (Michel Piccoli) – thrown together in the jungle with the military on the trail behind them and any number of unknown perils ahead.

 
At the festival on Nov. 20: See 'Old Dog' Print E-mail
By Robert Hunt   
Posted 12:14 pm Fri., 11.20.09

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Even if you aren't familiar with the music of Mama's Pride or Pavlov's Dog -- two local bands that hovered on the edge of "making it" in the '70s, the movies are worth seeing. They give a behind-the-curtain look at the industry that tempts and discards people who want to make music.

 
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We all have our images, impressions of downtown, which makes it all the more interesting to see what catches an artist's eye as he walks around from the river past Union Station.

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