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Jan Komasa, and his team, have taken six hours of original newsreel footage from the Warsaw Uprising of 1944, shot…

McCraney’s startling trilogy “The Brother/Sister Plays’, a poetic gumbo of African American tropes, susurrate idioms and Yoruba storytelling, makes a…

Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland (“Quinceanera”) make the most of a small budget in their fascinating “The Last Of Robin…

There are enough ideas in Ari Folman’s brilliant “The Congress” to fuel two films.The film is based in part on…

Jan Ole Gerster’s debut feature, “A Coffee in Berlin” (originally titled “Oh Boy”) is another unbe-coming of age flic. Gerster’s…

Documentarian Steve James (“Hoop Dreams,” “The Interrupters”) was championed by Roger Ebert. He collaborated with Ebert and wife Chaz to…

Los Angeles Filmforum is thrilled to present the feature-length first entry in George Kuchar’s monumental Weather Diary series, which eventually…

French actress/director Emmanuelle Bercot’s lazy day road movie features the glorious Catherine Deneuve as Bettie, a 60-something one-time Miss Brittany…

Errol Morris is incapable of making a boring documentary. His latest, “The Unknown Known”, based on over thirty hours of…

Chicago historian John Maloof bought a box of negatives at a auction, hoping to use them for a history project.…