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The Ultimate Guide To Film, Video and Entertainment In New York City

  He may not walk away with the trophy for Best Director at this year's Oscar ceremonies, but David O. Russell's film THE FIGHTER will certainly go down for the count as one of the important...

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Museum of the Moving Image
David O. Russell
THE FIGHTER

  How fortunate are we film-crazy New Yorkers to have such a cinematic treasure as the Film Forum in our midst. The three-screen arthouse complex in the West Village neighborhood of...

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Film Forum
THE LEOPARD
BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN
IF I WANT TO WHISTLE
I WHISTLE

  Films that feature well known figures from history are always intriguing, whether they reflect actual fact or are mere figments of the director's feverish imagination. In the delightfully...

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MAHLER ON THE COUCH
Gustav Mahler
Sigmund Freud

  The fine arts have always had a solemn embrace with the art of film since the days of silent movies. As the "art form of the 20th century" began to cement its reputation in the first two...

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Jacob Burns Film Center
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  You cannot talk about world cinema of the 1970s and 1980s without mentioning (and lionizing) the name of Peter Weir. A key innovator of the Australian New Wave of those decades, and one of...

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Film Society of Lincoln Center
Peter Weir