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Undiscovered Country

By Joshua Rothkopf

The typical complaint goes something like this: Why open a huge, gleaming multiplex if three of those screens are going to be devoted to a single “prestige” picture—Seabiscuit, say —and the rest to wannabe contenders of even lesser ambition? Happy exceptions aside, I fully sympathize. New waves of cinema have come and gone, from countries we should be learning more about… return to article

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