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Beautiful Ruins
The Short Version: During the filming of Cleopatra, a young actress’ life changes drastically and irrevocably in a town on the Italian coast. In the relative present, the players from that fateful...
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Night Film
The Short Version: After a misguided attempt to take on reclusive filmmaker Stanislas Cordova, Scott McGrath’s journalism career is verging on washed-up. But when Cordova’s daughter turns up dead...
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BookClub: Labor Day
(the bookshot – note the silks, with which you could tie someone up) Greetings, faithful readers, and welcome to what might be a one-off and might be a recurring new feature on the site: recaps from...
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The Humbling
The Short Version: Simon Axler, a famous and aging actor, has lost his gift. Unable to perform anymore, he begins to question his own existence – until Pegeen, the daughter of an old friend, comes into...
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Not That Kind of Girl
The Short Version: Lena Dunham, writer and actress and director and twentysomething provocatrix, tells you a little bit about what she’s “learned” in essays and lists and stories that are heartfelt,...
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The Making of Zombie Wars
The Short Version: Joshua lives in Chicago and has a decent enough life. He teaches ESL, comes up with ideas for screenplays in a screenwriting group (although rarely actually commits to writing them),...
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The Absolution of Roberto Acestes Laing
The Short Version: A journalist comes to meet with Roberto Acestes Laing, a near-mythic figure in film culture who worked for major directors and who, as a film librarian, destroyed the only copies of...
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We Don’t Need Roads: The Making of the Back to the Future Trilogy
The Short Version: One of the greatest trilogies of all time, Caseen Gaines takes a look behind the scenes of the Back to the Future films – unexpected recasting, thematic issues, splitting films in...
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The Last Samurai
The Short Version: After a one-night stand, Sibylla – an American first studying at Oxford and then surviving on odd jobs in London – finds herself raising Ludo, a precocious young boy with a hunger...
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