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‘John Adams,’ ‘The Greatest Game’ lead a stellar list of Blu-ray titles

by Doug Nye [McClatchy-Tribune News Service (MCT)]

[17.Jun.09] :. One of the best miniseries of all time, “John Adams” (HBO, 2008, $79.98), and a terrific film about a historic golf match, “The Greatest Game Ever Played” (Walt Disney, 2005,...

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Independent Lens: Wonders Are Many: The Making of Doctor Atomic

by Cynthia Fuchs

[16.Dec.08] :. The challenges of portraying the Manhattan Project form the core of the excellent documentary Wonders Are Many: The Making of Doctor Atomic.

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Maximum minimalism

by David Patrick Stearns [The Philadelphia Inquirer (MCT)]

[3.Sep.08] :. Contradictory as it sounds, minimalist music is arriving in an avalanche this fall. But since minimalism is, by definition, minimal, one envisions creatures from some musical Lilliput engulfing...

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Paul Giamatti stars in HBO series about a misunderstood Founding Father

by Ellen Gray [Philadelphia Daily News (MCT)]

[17.Mar.08] :. They’ve lived their lives a couple of hundred years apart apart, but you could say that John Adams and Paul Giamatti became leading men at about the same time. For Adams, it was the 2001...

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John Adams by David McCullough

by Michael Patrick Brady

[17.Mar.08] :. A quintessentially American story about common heroic acts, and the impact one person can have when they throw their whole selves into a cause they believe in.

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