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Boston Globe -- Movie stories
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Social climbers
The Reel Rock Film Tour , a traveling showcase of extreme climbing footage, stops in Arlington tonight. It's basically a chance for you to see people hanging off mountains and icy Arctic walls. Better them than you, right? These stories of daring climbs look brilliant on the big screen, and if you're into the outdoors, you're bound to meet some ...
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A five-letter word spells trouble
LOS ANGELES - Kevin Smith made a movie with such a bothersome title he cannot even place ads for it in some places.
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Grieving the personal and political losses of a revolution
Many a man has spent a movie searching for a lost love. Few have wound up telling the story of revolutionary South America in the process. But when Juan Mandelbaum went looking for an old college girlfriend back in Buenos Aires, he came back with "Our Disappeared," a tender documentary that recalls how a decade of political upheaval wrecked families, ...
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'Twentieth Century'
Oct. 19 Warning: The dizzying pace and rapid-fire banter of this hysterical 1934 screwball comedy may cause whiplash. John Barrymore's megalomaniacal producer transforms lingerie model Mildred Plotka (the luminous Carole Lombard) into diva supreme Lily Garland. Director Howard Hawks keeps this moving faster than the speeding locomotive of the title. 5:30 and 9:30 pm. $9.50. Brattle Theatre, 40 Brattle St., ...
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It all ads up
File this under "We don't get it, but it's funny." Here are two 2007 TV ads that will screen at British Advertising Films - see if you can guess the products. One is a man in a gorilla suit drumming to "In the Air Tonight" by Phil Collins. The tagline is "pure enjoyment." The other ad features pieces of Play-Doh ...
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Young director sees film on grand scale
Five years ago, Gil Kenan was an unknown university student with a video camera; today he is an Oscar-nominated director strolling around one of the largest indoor film sets ever made. And it's his.
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Making room for art
Thanks to the Cambridge Center for Adult Education, you can get a sneak-preview tonight of a film about women who are driven to make art even though they're busy doing (and paying for) other things. Pamela Tanner Boll, who produced "Born Into Brothels," made the documentary "Who Does She Think She Is?" to show how women across the country have ...
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Taking a 'Risk'
Navigating the business and arts world can be hard enough on its own. But when you're a gender fluid individual like Océan Leroy , a Parisian born performance artist and drag king living in Berlin, it can be even harder to balance to pressure. The film "Risk, Stretch, or Die" looks at what it takes to maintain this precarious balance ...
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Collection of British television ads has many bright spots
Think of it as reverse TiVo : Instead of skipping past the commercials to get to the programming, the 90-minute evening of "British Advertising Films of 2008" starting tomorrow at the Museum of Fine Arts offers commercials as programming.
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'Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom'
"Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom" is the second installment in the Indiana Jones series, but since it's a prequel, it's really where Indy's adventures began. You can see the hatted hero in "Doom" tonight at the Mattapan Branch of the Boston Public Library, which is showing the entire Jones series on Tuesdays throughout the month. Next week, it's ...
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Hobbit forming
The Brattle Theatre, which has been screening films about Middle Earth all weekend, shows the director's cut of the last film in the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy twice today. "The Return of the King" puts a moderate amount of closure on the tale of the hobbits and a crazy ring. Just be sure to hit the bathroom first - ...
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'The Secret Life of Bees'
The Boston Public Library is giving free passes to young adults for a Thursday afternoon sneak-preview screening of "The Secret Life of Bees," a film adaptation of the popular book that's set to open Friday. All teens have to do is pick up a pass in the Young Adult Room at the Central Branch of the Boston Public Library. The ...
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New releases
DVD - TV/ANIMATION Lil' Bush: Resident of the United States, season 2 A few may remember that President George W. Bush and his family first got the Comedy Central treatment in the short-lived sitcom "That's My Bush," which aired from April to June 2001. Its satire, however cheeky about the commander in chief, was mild compared to the insolent, scatological, ...
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The 1 thing
THE 1 WELCOME USE FOR SPAM Gratuitous junk mail usually leads to cursing and mass deletion. But for British illustrator Linzie Hunter, the bizarro subject lines of these offending e-mails inspire letter art prints. In Hunter's hands, "No girls laugh at me now. Ha-ha. I laugh at them." becomes a graphic pink-and-black speech bubble. I guess one man's spam is ...
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He's back
Welcome home, Jonathan Demme. We've missed you. "Rachel Getting Married" is the 64-year-old director's 22d theatrical release, give or take, and his seventh in a decade. Yet it's the first movie in years to showcase his vision of America as a lovely but fraught emotional playground. Demme didn't go anywhere but his sensibility did, and only with this new work ...
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