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Night Riders and Matinee Movies: The Relationship Between the KKK and American Film
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There's No Resting in Peace in Roger Corman's 'Premature Burial'
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'A Year in Champagne' Is All Fruit and No Acidity
There's plenty of dazzle but little depth in this champagne documentary.
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Revolvers, Redemption, and Yasujiro Ozu’s Silent Film Experimentation With Crime Drama
Like Jean-Luc Godard and other French directors who were later influenced by the American crime film tradition, Japan's own Yasujiro Ozu made the genre his own.
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'The Wild Angels' Lays Out the Rules of the Biker Film
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Through a Lens Darkly surveys the often hidden or forgotten history of African Americans as photographic subjects as well as photographers.
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