Minority Report

It’s not easy being a minority group and launching a film festival in a town as packed as this one is with high-profile, well-funded,…

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Street Fighting Woman

After four decades of historical reductivism and revisionism, the incendiary student protests of 1968, here and in Europe, have been neatly placed in a…

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Bastard Out of England

After growing up in England, writer Linda Robertson moved to the city, suffered through our unique brand of hell, and ended up Miss Accordion…

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The Great Beyond

Leaving home to find work, and the emotional baggage dragged along, is the theme of the stronger offerings in this year's Berlin & Beyond…

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Flamenco Navidad

If you're feeling the holiday-induced urge to throw a little yuletide gathering but haven't gotten a single response to your Fred Claus movie party…

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No Man's Land

The outspoken German director Helmut Käutner made his first movie in 1939, but he never toed the party line. As war raged and Germany…

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Career Opportunities

It's a bit of a shock to discover there's nary a song by the Sex Pistols or the Clash, the bands who denounced Margaret…

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Bike Rodeo Clowns

A tall bike is a thing of beauty. Entirely unsuited to cross-town travel, the homemade monsters, in which a second (and sometimes third and…

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