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The Nun's Story
This 1959 film starring Audrey Hepburn is a rare example of Hollywood taking the rigors and struggles of religious faith seriously. Religious stories go...
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The Cathedral
A portrait of a normal seeming American family, with a subversive style revealing its inherent dysfunction. The Cathedral, the remarkable sophomore feature by Ricky...
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Payday
A hidden gem from 1973 tells of an alcoholic country singer’s much too complicated life. Often in discussions of that brief period in the...
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Alcarràs
A family peach farm in Catalonia must face its end, in this gorgeous evocation of people’s bond with the land. Our connection to the...
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Life Is Sweet
Mike Leigh’s comedy of lower middle class English characters became a template for much of his later work. Mike Leigh, the British writer and...
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A New Old Play
The fictional account of a Chinese opera troupe covers, in epic and satiric style, the course of Chinese history from the 1920s through the...