| August 1 |
- The stolen election of 2004: Chapter 53
- "Stealing America" airs out the same old questions (and conspiracy theories) about the murky Bush-Kerry election. But it avoids the really scary stuff.
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| August 5 |
- It all started with the Germs
- A loving, low-budget film tries to revive the undead spirit of Darby Crash and L.A.'s most anarchic punk pioneers. But some things aren't easy to resurrect.
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| August 6 |
- Jesus died for somebody's sins ... but not hers
- A dazzling, dizzying documentary captures rock pioneer Patti Smith during her comeback years, surrounded by death and life.
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| August 7 |
- The art world's Pepsi Generation
- "Beautiful Losers" chronicles the art rebels of the '90s, fueled by punk, skateboarding, graffiti and trash culture. Now brought to you by Nike!
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| August 8 |
- "Elegy" for a topless bombshell
- Penélope Cruz gets art-history naked and Ben Kingsley is diamond-brilliant in an overly pretty film adaptation of Philip Roth's "Dying Animal."
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| August 11 |
- Is torture an Olympic event?
- After 33 years of abuse and imprisonment, one Tibetan monk says no to the Beijing Olympics -- and to the Dalai Lama's accommodation with tyranny.
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| August 13 |
- See Tarantino's next movie right now (sort of)
- Eager to catch the ultraviolent WWII shootout "Inglorious Bastards," loaded with blaxploitation beefcake and naked chicks? Come on over!
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| August 14 |
- An actress cut in two
- French sex symbol Ludivine Sagnier on passion, perversion and her new film "A Girl Cut in Two." (Please, don't call it a porn movie.)
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| August 15 |
- Scarlett and Penélope do Barcelona
- Can a sapphic love scene between Scarlett Johansson and Penélope Cruz make Woody Allen seem relevant again?
- A French master's farewell to love
- Eric Rohmer's pastoral Renaissance fantasy, "The Romance of Astrea and Celadon," couldn't be a weirder, or lovelier, way to say goodbye.
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| August 20 |
- Portrait of the artist as a fallen angel
- Indie hero Azazel Jacobs talks about casting his own parents -- and their eccentric, amazing New York apartment -- in his entrancing breakthrough film "Momma's Man."
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| August 21 |
- One devastating home movie
- As the floodwaters rose in New Orleans, "street hustler" Kim Roberts turned on her camera -- and captured a story more thrilling than any Hollywood blockbuster.
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| August 22 |
- The man who rocks sexy Jesus
- A superstar in Britain, comedian Steve Coogan hopes to ramp up his mojo with the high-school-drama farce "Hamlet 2."
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| August 26 |
- Before Bergman and "The Crucible"
- Carl Dreyer's erotic witch-hunt drama "Day of Wrath," made in Nazi-occupied Denmark, resurfaces with shattering clarity after a digital restoration.
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| August 28 |
- The ultimate Japanese Shakespeare spaghetti western!
- Takashi Miike's "Sukiyaki Western Django" offers a spectacular mashup of Kurosawa, Sergio Leone, Tarantino and the Bard -- and it's weirder than that sounds.
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| August 29 |
- I married a Nazi -- the comedy
- Czech master Jirí Menzel's black comedy about a lovable innocent turned Nazi collaborator is a work of nettlesome genius. Will anybody notice?
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