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    Holiday Music Break - Duke Ellington In "Bundle Of Blues"

    Here's a terrific musical short for your holiday enjoyment. This is Duke Ellington and his band from the 1933 music short film Bundle of Blues.

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    VIDEO ESSAY: MAGIC AND LIGHT: THE FILMS OF STEVEN SPIELBERG, Chapter 5: Father figures

    Steven Spielberg is the product of The Greatest Generation -- a Baby Boomer raised on idealized images of the nuclear family, progress, and American might. He is also a child of divorce -- a dreamer from a broken home. Spielberg’s attempt to reconcile these two biographical facts—the mythic ideal of...

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    Trailer Watch: Ridley Scott's 'Prometheus' Seeks Origin Myth

    Check out the new trailer for the unofficial Ridley Scott prequel "Prometheus"( June 8, 2012). The tagline: "They went looking for our beginning. What they found could be our end."

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    Tristan Wilds & Michael B Jordan Take You Behind The Scenes Of "Red Tails" + New Footage

    I'm sure this film doesn't need much of an intro, so I won't bother with one. Here are 2 of its co-stars, Tristan Wilds and Michael B. Jordan giving us a pair of behind-the-scenes video looks at Red Tails, producer George Lucas' Tuskegee Airmen WWII action/drama, directed by Ant...

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    Wenders Gets Out of His Own Way with Stunning 3-D Tribute To Pina Bausch

    A hand caresses dirt, sheer curtains billow in your face in 3-D. From the first frames of "Pina," you know you are in the hands of a master. With this documentary Wim Wenders deploys his arsenal of skills learned over 40 years of filmmaking, freed from the constraints of the narrative fict...

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    Rita Moreno - An 80 Year Old Dynamo

    She's won an Oscar, Emmy, Tony and Grammy.  She's Fran's mom on Happily Divorced, has her own one woman show, is celebrating 50 years of West Side Story and just turned 80.

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    Teaser Trailer: Game Change on HBO

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    Video Interview: Edward Burns On His Small-Budget Charmer, "Newlyweds"

    Edward Burns’ latest film, Newlyweds, is a delightfully witty, sharply observed romance that comes with its own amazing origin story. Although you wouldn’t guess it from the film’s clear, bright look, it was shot for a pittance  -- around $9,000, yes that’s thousand...

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    Watch Two New Featurettes For Steve McQueen's "Shame"

    Fox Searchlight has released two new video featurettes for Steve McQueen's NC-17 rated drama Shame; which, by the way, I finally got the chance to see last week and highly recommend :-).

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    Watch: 10 Questions With Dee Rees (Writer/Director Of "Pariah")

    More footage from Pariah press day in New York City was a few weeks ago, and, in the rush of it all, I was able to chat with some of its starring cast (Adepero Oduye, Kim Wayans and Pernell Walker), its director (Dee Rees), and producer (Nekisa Cooper).

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