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    Jan 10 2013
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    The not-entirely-pure evil of "The Birth of a Nation"

    By Glenn Kenny Auteurs, Criticism, Current Events, Some Came Running by Glenn Kenny
    "The Little Colonel" (Henry B. Walthall) performs a stupid and futile but nevertheless rousing gesture in Griffith's film. In his December 2012 interview with Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Quentin Tarantino…
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    Jan 09 2013
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    Cinematica 3/13: Do you hear the actors “sing”?

    By Dan Slevin Audio, Cinematica
    Steve Gray, former film reviewer for TV's Good Morning show and blogger at therealstevegray.com joins us: Steve and Simon wrestle over Les Misérables, Tom Cruise is back in Jack Reacher…
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    Jan 09 2013
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    Review: Summer Holiday Roundup (2012/13)

    By Dan Slevin Cinema, Reviews
    As I sit here typing, I can hear the sounds of a Wellington summer all around me - the rain pouring on to the deck outside and the wind howling…
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    Jan 09 2013
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    Gallagher/Tarantino/Tavernier/Lyttelton

    By Glenn Kenny Asides, Some Came Running by Glenn Kenny
    "Ford was fond of telling how he played a bespectacled Klansman in The Birth of a Nation, fell off his horse, and woke up with Griffith bending over him. 'Are…
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    Jan 06 2013
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    Riefenstahl/Sontag/Nabokov/Monty Python

    By Glenn Kenny 20th Century history, Affinities, Criticism, Some Came Running by Glenn Kenny
    Adolf Hitler in Triumph des Willens (Triumph of the Will), Leni Riefenstahl, 1934. "Triumph of the Will and Olympia are undoubtedly superb films (they may be the two greatest documentaries…
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    Jan 03 2013
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    Cinematica 3/12: Faith Rewarded

    By Dan Slevin Audio, Cinematica
    Kailey tells us about going to the movies in Canada’s winter darkness and we review Wreck-It Ralph, Dustin Hoffman’s Quartet and the stunning epic Life of Pi by Ang Lee.
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