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A new PBS documentary explores the dreaded "BRCA" gene mutation, which is leading more and more women to get preventive double mastectomies.
By Jessica Wakeman
October 1, 2008
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Mad respect to the disrespectful, from gold medalist Usain Bolt to the authority-questioning Marines of "Generation Kill" to the thoughtful artists on HBO's "The Black List."
By Heather Havrilesky
August 24, 2008
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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.
By Andrew O'Hehir
August 11, 2008
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A dazzling, dizzying documentary captures rock pioneer Patti Smith during her comeback years, surrounded by death and life.
By Andrew O'Hehir
August 6, 2008
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Andrew O'Hehir interviews the director and subject of "Man on Wire."
July 26, 2008
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An arch, acute and haunting documentary about the segregated Mardi Gras traditions of Mobile, Ala., "The Order of Myths" might be the nonfiction film of the year.
By Andrew O'Hehir
July 25, 2008
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Kent Mackenzie's gorgeous black-and-white film "The Exiles" captures a garage-rock world of urban American Indians in a vanished L.A. Plus: German groupie tells all!
By Andrew O'Hehir
July 10, 2008
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Welcome to the military's Iraq Simulation, where the townspeople are Arab actors, the insurgents come from Arkansas -- and things tend to go horribly wrong.
By Andrew O'Hehir
July 9, 2008
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How the legendary screenwriter of "Roman Holiday" and "Spartacus" defied Congress, broke the blacklist and raised his family.
By Andrew O'Hehir
June 26, 2008
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The Beastie Boys' Adam Yauch on his new documentary, "Gunnin' for That #1 Spot," and tomorrow's NBA superstars.
By Caitlin Shamberg
June 25, 2008
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It's frozen allegory week -- in summer! Guy Maddin reveals the sleepwalking sex secrets of Winnipeg; Werner Herzog chases psycho penguins in Antarctica.
By Andrew O'Hehir
June 19, 2008
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Opening this week: Farmiga's feral femme fatale, Herzog at the South Pole, a true-life gay love story, the amazing "Blue Planet" and more.
By Andrew O'Hehir
June 13, 2008
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We haven't exhausted the kids' movies topic yet, believe me! Meanwhile here's a quickie guide to new films opening this week (that I'm not covering).
By Andrew O'Hehir
June 6, 2008
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A marriage made in Cannes: Two notorious tabloid-fodder Yanks are showered with love on the Riviera.
By Andrew O'Hehir
May 17, 2008
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Nick Broomfield's pulse-pounding "Battle for Haditha" turns the infamous 2005 civilian massacre into a haunting classic about the inhumanity of war.
By Andrew O'Hehir
May 8, 2008
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The filmmakers behind "Chevolution" explain how Che Guevara's face ended up on all those T-shirts, posters, beer bottles and bikini bottoms.
By Amy Reiter
May 5, 2008
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Errol Morris on his film "Standard Operating Procedure," why Lynndie England and others took photographs, and how the infamous images conceal as much as they reveal (podcast and video).
By Andrew O'Hehir
April 25, 2008
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Likable "Super Size Me" director searches for video-game villain (and '80s rapper) Osama bin Laden, yuks it up with Arab citizenry.
By Andrew O'Hehir
April 18, 2008
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Leading Catholic dissident James Carroll talks about Pope Benedict's visit, and the church's failure to confront its anti-Semitic history.
By Andrew O'Hehir
April 18, 2008
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Hot she-wolves of the SS, rescued from the memory hole. Also: Buddhism for murderers, housewife seeks Asian stud and more.
By Andrew O'Hehir
April 11, 2008
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Buddhism without parole, in Alabama's darkest prison. Plus: Hot housewife seeks Asian stud, physics geek goes nutzoid and more.
By Andrew O'Hehir
April 11, 2008
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A new documentary on rock camp for girls. Where was this when we were kids?
By Molly Eichel
March 10, 2008
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Produced by Terrence Malick and Robert Redford, "The Unforeseen" is the "Chinatown" of Texas real-estate documentaries.
By Andrew O'Hehir
February 29, 2008
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Oscar-nominated documentaries as a hotbed of anti-Bush, antiwar ideology? Heaven forfend!
By Andrew O'Hehir
February 23, 2008
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Upcoming releases "Chicago 10" and "Battle in Seattle" make history look hip.
By Salon/IFC
February 8, 2008
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I Like to Watch
Is torture an Olympic event?
Jesus died for somebody's sins ... but not hers
"I am an actor on a very thin stage"
Black and white in color
All-night party in a lost city
Inside the Army's fake Iraq
Dalton Trumbo and American evil
Awesome; I f**kin' shot that basketball movie!
Maddin and Herzog: Brothers of the ice!
Kinky underwear in Antarctica
Che anything
GigaOM Network
Glenn Greenwald