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The Golden Voyage of Sinbad March 14, 2011 The second of special-effects wizard Ray Harryhausen’s three Sinbad epics, this film finds the titular hero played by John Philip Law, while the principal villain, Koura, is portrayed by future ...

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Oklahoma! March 14, 2011 Rodgers and Hammerstein’s 1943 Broadway musical was considered revolutionary for a multitude of reasons, not least of which were the play's intricate integration of song and storyline, ...

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Finian’s Rainbow March 14, 2011 Nearly 20 years after it opened on Broadway, the E.Y. Harburg/Fred Saidy musical Finian’s Rainbow was committed to film. Set in the mythical southern state of Missitucky, the story involves the ...

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The Passenger March 14, 2011 The mutual admiration between actor Jack Nicholson and director Michelangelo Antonioni resulted in the psychological drama The Passenger. Nicholson plays David Locke, a disillusioned American ...

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Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger March 14, 2011 Famed stop-motion animator Ray Harryhausen concocts a collection of fantastic creatures — including a saber-tooth tiger, a chess-playing baboon, a giant walrus and three banshees -- for ...

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Ma Vie en Rose March 14, 2011 Boys will be boys and girls will be girls, but one child isn’t so sure in this Belgian comedy drama. 7-year-old Ludovic (Georges DuFresne) is happy, healthy, and good-natured, but ...

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Jesus of Montreal March 14, 2011 A modern-day Passion Play becomes a reenactment of the life and death of Jesus Christ in more ways than one with this critically acclaimed drama from Quebec filmmaker Denys Arcand. Lothaire ...

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The General March 14, 2011 John Boorman, who won the 1998 Cannes Film Festival’s Direction award for this film, previously won the same Cannes award almost three decades earlier for his Leo the Last (1969) about an ...

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Ushpizin March 14, 2011 The insular world of Orthodox Jews in Jerusalem comes to the screen (with their blessings) in this warm comedy drama. Moshe (Shuli Rand) was once a secular Jew, but he rediscovered his faith and ...

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Dancing At Lughnasa March 14, 2011 Irish director Pat O’Connor helmed this adaptation of Brian Friel's 1990 play which won three Tony awards in addition to UK Olivier and Evening Standard awards. Friel's portrait ...

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The Sound of Music March 14, 2011 One of the most popular movie musicals of all time, The Sound of Music is based on the true story of the Trapp Family Singers. Julie Andrews stars as Maria, a young nun in an Austrian convent who ...

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Offside March 14, 2011 A handful of girls struggle to make their way into the man’s world of an Iranian soccer stadium in this comedy from writer and director Jafar Panahi. World Cup season is just around the corner, ...

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Gandhi March 14, 2011 It was Richard Attenborough’s lifelong dream to bring the life story of Indian political and spiritual leader Mahatma Gandhi to the screen. When it finally reached fruition in 1982, the ...

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The Color of Paradise March 14, 2011 Director Majid Majidi, whose Bacheha-Ye Aseman/Children Of Heaven was the first Iranian film to be nominated for an American Academy Award, returns with another compassionate story of children in ...

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Butterfield 8 March 14, 2011 A woman who has long been short on feelings falls in love with a married man in this emotional drama. Gloria Wondrous (Elizabeth Taylor) is a model and party girl who lives for pleasure and is ...

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To Sir, With Love March 14, 2011 Sidney Poitier, who in 1955 played a student in a tough inner-city high school, portrays a teacher assigned to a similar institution in To Sir, With Love. Unable to find work as an engineer, ...

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Five Easy Pieces March 14, 2011 A disaffected man seeks a sense of identity in one of the key films of Hollywood’s 1970s New Wave. Once a promising pianist from a family of classical musicians, Bobby Eroica Dupea (Jack ...

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The Bicycle Thief March 14, 2011 This landmark Italian neorealist drama became one of the best-known and most widely acclaimed European movies, including a special Academy Award as "most outstanding foreign film" seven years ...

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The Bicycle Thief March 14, 2011 This landmark Italian neorealist drama became one of the best-known and most widely acclaimed European movies, including a special Academy Award as "most outstanding foreign ...

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Days of Wine and Roses March 14, 2011 In this addiction melodrama, Joe Clay (Jack Lemmon), a promising adman, meet his future wife Kirsten (Lee Remick) at a party. Once married, the pressures of his business lead Joe to seek solace ...