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Documentary explores culture of fear after Indonesian mass killings
Joshua Oppenheimer returns to Indonesia and the aftermath of the mass killings of the 1960s in The Look of Silence.
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Oklahoma Humanities Council is now accepting grant applications
Organizations seeking grants from Oklahoma Humanities Council must turn in their application drafts by Aug. 1.
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Film review: Force Majeure
Early in Force Majeure, a young, good-looking family — father, mother, son and daughter — is having lunch at an outdoor restaurant of a ski resort in the French Alps. The vista, a gleaming and snow-packed mountain, is almost overwhelmingly spectacular. A controlled explosion in the distance triggers an avalanche that commands the attention of […]
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With her breakthrough documentary, Mitra Farahani paints her portrait with a virtuoso’s precision — not an easy task given the complexity of her subject.
With her breakthrough documentary, Mitra Farahani paints her portrait with a virtuoso’s precision — not an easy task given the complexity of her subject.
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Anderson brings passion to OKCMOA film program
Small-town life and sheer boredom had Anderson going through the lists of the great L.A. blockbusters, foreign works, art films and repertory masterpieces.
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The swooning of critics over Boyhood has reached near-embarrassing levels. But there’s no getting around it; this is a remarkable movie.
The swooning of critics over Boyhood has reached near-embarrassing levels. But there’s no getting around it; this is a remarkable movie.
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Film review: Life Itself
Roger Ebert had a wonderful life, as Frank Capra might have put it, and one that is beautifully recounted in Life Itself.
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Lockdown
Locking up nonviolent drug users and perpetuating the 42-year-old War on Drugs has become a profitable and political tool used by Oklahoma’s elected officials and the for-profit prison industry. Many of those offenders have a recognized need for treatment or a halfway house setting instead of incarceration, said state Rep. Gus Blackwell (R-Laverne), an advocate […]
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2 Days in New York
According to online language tools, the title Meet the Fockers roughly translates to Rencontrer les Fockers in French. I bring this up only because Parisian-born actress Julie Delpy (Before Sunset) essentially has made a French-flavored version of that comedy with 2 Days in New York, which she directed and co-wrote. 2 Days plays for exactly […]