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  Chantal Akerman's New York
  By Melissa Anderson
  Wed Oct 23, 2013

  In 1971, at the age of 21, Belgian-born filmmaker Chantal Akerman, after stints in Paris and Jerusalem, moved to New York because, as she... More >>

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  Aziz Ansari: Dudes, the Number of Dick Pics You Send is Startling
  By Inkoo Kang
  Wed Oct 23, 2013

  "Imagine if marriage didn't exist, and you're a guy and you ask someone to get married," proposes comedian Aziz Ansari in his new Netflix... More >>

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  Podcast: Comparing the New Carrie to the Old and Bad Grandpa's Emotional Terror
  By Village Voice Staff
  Wed Oct 23, 2013

  On this week's Voice Film Club podcast, Stephanie Zacharek of The Village Voice and Amy Nicholson of L.A. Weekly discuss Kimberly Peirce's... More >>

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  Five Films and Four Different Takes on Your Favorite Violent Nomads in 'The Middle Ages on Film: Vikings!'
  By Alan Scherstuhl
  Wed Oct 23, 2013

  Five films, four flavors of the ol' pillaging-in-leathers routine. Twilight-of-the-studio-era extravaganzas Richard Fleischer's The Vikings... More >>

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  Celebrating the Late Karen Black at BAM
  By Stephanie Zacharek
  Wed Oct 16, 2013

  With those off-kilter features and that bold, confident carriage, she might have stepped out of Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon: Karen Black... More >>

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  Podcast: Go See 12 Years a Slave, All is Lost, and Avoid CBGB
  By Village Voice Staff
  Wed Oct 16, 2013

  On this week's Voice Film Club podcast, Village Voice film editor Alan Scherstuhl and L.A. Weekly film critic Amy Nicholson disagree on Steve... More >>

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  Podcast: Danny Trejo in Machete Kills is Pure Charm and Scar Tissue
  By Village Voice Staff
  Wed Oct 9, 2013

  In this week's Voice Film Club podcast, our critics discuss Captain Phillips and Machete Kills, both out on Friday. In Captain Phillips,... More >>

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  It's a Good Time for Bruce Willis, Action Star, to Die Hard
  By Vern
  Wed Oct 9, 2013

  Something's seemed different about No. 1 American action hero Bruce Willis lately. His action movie output in recent years has mostly been stunt... More >>

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  How Zero Charisma's Creators Got Geek/Gamer Culture Right Onscreen
  By David Konow
  Wed Oct 9, 2013

  There are definitely some geeks out there who are worried about Zero Charisma. Does the movie take a lot of cheap shots, or does it for once... More >>

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  The killer punk flicks at the CBGB Festival are All Better than CBGB
  By Peter Gerstenzang
  Wed Oct 9, 2013

  Hilly would have been delighted. As rock 'n' roll bands celebrate CBGB's 40th anniversary, a film festival is also occurring this week, a... More >>

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  Ten Disneyland Tips From the Director Who Secretly Shot a Horror Sex Movie There
  By Amy Nicholson
  Wed Oct 9, 2013

  What's illegal at Disneyland? Dogs, drugs, alcohol, pamphlets, flags and large coolers. Not listed? Secretly shooting a feature-length... More >>

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  The Invisible Woman: Ralph Fiennes' Magnificent Dickensian Tale of Secret Love and Loss
  By Nick Schager
  Wed Oct 9, 2013

  Discarding the Greengrass-ian shaky cam of his directorial debut, 2011’s Coriolanus, Ralph Fiennes employs a magnificently classical touch... More >>

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  The Cheap Epiphanies and Unexplained Fortitude of Cassadaga
  By Chris Packham
  Wed Oct 9, 2013

  These days, affluent baby boomers get their cheap epiphanies from This American Life and TED talks, whose disruptive entrances into the market... More >>

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  NYFF: Garrel's Jealousy Is Like a Good Haiku
  By Stephanie Zacharek
  Wed Oct 2, 2013

  Among moviegoers who try to keep up with French cinema, the more recent pictures made by post-New Wave avant garde-type Philippe Garrel tend to... More >>