| September 2 |
- News roundup: Coens, Coco, John and Che
- The Coens' "Burn After Reading" sets critics ablaze; Chanel and Lennon, together at last? Plus, Soderbergh's Guevara opus finds a home (maybe).
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| September 4 |
- Indie film's new, globalized realism
- Do low-budget American films like "The Pool" (made in Hindi) and "August Evening" (made in Spanish) signal a new wave of cultural exploration, or just hipster tourism?
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| September 5 |
- A Jewish family's hidden shame
- Claude Miller's wrenching "A Secret" distills the French nation's Nazi-era guilt into one family's incredible-but-true wartime story.
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| September 6 |
- A lovable pervert at your window
- Weekend roundup: The noble peeping Tom hero of "Mister Foe," Truffaut's delectable Parisian noir "Shoot the Piano Player" and more.
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| September 10 |
- Gone fishin'! Back soon -- here's what awaits
- Alan Ball, the Coens, a re-release of the greatest film of the '70s and a tribute to Britain's most important filmmaker -- and I'm on vacation!
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| September 11 |
- Arab-American beauty
- En route from "Six Feet Under" to "True Blood," TV genius Alan Ball snuck in "Towelhead," an earnest drama about race and sexual awakening in '90s suburbia.
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| September 12 |
- No country for human beings
- Tastes bad! Less filling! Brad Pitt's quasi-closeted gym boy and George Clooney's beard star in the Coen brothers' bizarre, coldblooded spy farce, "Burn After Reading."
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| September 19 |
- Wayne Wang isn't missing
- Peripatetic Asian-American indie-film hero is back from J.Lo exile with a double bill of intriguing new low-budget films -- and YouTube distribution. (A podcast and interview.)
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| September 22 |
- Coppola, Spielberg, Hammer Films and you
- News roundup: I'm back, and so is New York's oh-so-cultured fall fest. Plus: Coppola's controversial "restoration," Hammer Films reborn, and 12 movies you haven't seen (but should have).
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| September 25 |
- Angelina, Mickey Rourke and disco madness
- From Clint's "Changeling" to Soderbergh's "Che" and beyond, the New York Film Festival sets the table for the fall's Oscar hopefuls, art-house maybes and wild-eyed cinematic rebels.
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| September 26 |
- Chokin' on Chuck
- Sam Rockwell and director Clark Gregg render Palahniuk's "Choke" as madcap sex farce. Plus: The man who destroyed American culture! Filipina ladyboys in Iceland!
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