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Posted inFilm

Chappaquiddick: How to spin a movie about spin?

by J.R. Jones April 19, 2018August 18, 2021

A new drama about the Ted Kennedy scandal seeks a mass audience in a politically polarized climate.

Blood Ties
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Blood Ties and Gambit: Two genre films for the grown-ups

by Ben Sachs July 9, 2014August 18, 2021

Blood Ties and Gambit: two genre films from the “disappearing middle” of American cinema

Posted inBlogs

Local Burroughs doc coming to theaters, PBS

by Ed M. Koziarski June 2, 2010August 19, 2021

Beastie Boy Adam Yauch’s Oscilloscope Laboratories will release local filmmaker Yony Leyser’s documentary “William S. Burroughs: A Man Within.”

Posted inBlogs

AMPAS announces documentary short list

by J.R. Jones November 19, 2008August 19, 2021

The Oscar race for best documentary has begun.

Posted inBlogs

“Road” to be ruined?

by J.R. Jones March 30, 2007August 19, 2021

Can Sam Mendes ruin Richard Yates’s Revolutionary Road?

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Village Voice poll moves to IndieWire

by J.R. Jones November 29, 2006August 19, 2021

Former Village Voice film editor Dennis Lim will continue the paper’s annual critics’ poll on the Web site IndieWire.

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