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December 7th, 2014: High and Low — a.k.a. Tengoku to jigoku (1963)
Best known for his historical epics (including Ran and Seven Samurai), Akira Kurosawa started his career with some gripping detective films. In High and Low, adapted from the novel King's Ransom by Ed...
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December 8th, 2014: Eastern Promises (2007)
Anna, a young British woman of Russian descent, witnesses the death of a pregnant Russian teenager. Eager to find her family and a home for the posthumous newborn, she ends up in contact with various...
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December 9th, 2014: Serpico (1973)
Serpico (Al Pacino) is a cop who won’t take bribes and desperately tries to find someone, anyone, who he can report the practice to, aided only by Bob Blair (Tony Roberts), a cop attached to the...
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December 13th, 2014: Inside Man (2006)
Cast and Crew: Spike Lee (Director); Denzel Washington, Clive Owen, Jodie Foster, Christopher Plummer, Willem Dafoe, Chiwetel Ejiofor What It’s About: A police detective and hostage negotiator, Keith...
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December 19th, 2014: The Chase (1994)
Cast and Crew: Adam Rifkin (Director), Cassian Elwes (Producer); Charlie Sheen, Kristy Swanson, Henry Rollins What It’s About: Truth in advertising is the word of the day here: all but the first five...
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December 20th, 2014: The Hebrew Hammer
Mordecai Jefferson Carver (Adam Goldberg) allies with the Kwanzaa Liberation Front to save Hanukkah from the schemes of Santa Claus's demented son Damien (Andy Dick).
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December 24th, 2014: Tokyo Godfathers (2003)
Cast and Crew: Satoshi Kon (Director, Writer); Shôgo Furuya (Director); Keiko Nobumoto (Writer); Tôru Emori, Yoshiaki Umegaki, Aya Okamoto, and Shôzô Iizuka What It’s About: A trio of homeless people...
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December 26th, 2014: Diva (1981)
Cast and Crew: Jean-Jacques Beineix (Director); Irene Silberman (Producer); Frederic Andrei, Wilhelmenia Wiggins Fernandez, Richard Bohringer, Thuy An Luu What It’s About: Diva is a purely aesthetic...
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December 27th, 2014: Touch of Evil
Mike and Susie Vargas (Charlton Heston and Janet Leigh) find their honeymoon on the US-Mexico border interrupted by an assassination. "Mike" is Ramon Miguel Vargas, a Mexican Narcotics Officer, and...
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December 31, 2014: Strange Days (1995)
Strange Days is a disturbing dystopian vision of the near future from 1995. The anarchic 1999 Los Angeles it depicts is an over-the-top depraved riot of leather and goth and Sony MiniDiscs. With...
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