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Perhaps the most influential film of all time is Vittorio de Sica's Bicycle Thieves. This Italian neo-realist masterpiece is the story of a poor man and his two children who gets a job putting up posters.

The Telluride Film Festival is a miracle that happens once a year over the Labor Day weekend in a small town in a box canyon of the San Juan Mountains of southwestern Colorado.A high school gymnasium, a Masons hall, a banquet hall, the town park are transformed into state-of-the-art screening venues

In the final installment of our Here, There series on abortion, we return to the divisive struggle over reproductive matters in the United States.

It is one of the most famous and enigmatic words uttered in film: as he dies, Charles Kane, wealthy newspaper baron, whispers his last word, "Rosebud."

This is a story of spin and how works of art travel in our media-sick culture. Terrence Malick's film, The Tree of Life is a truly great film in my view, a masterpiece. It’s by no means a difficult film. Its narrative is straightforward.

Terrence Malick’s grand ambition for his film, The Tree of Life, is to look at man’s connection to the universe.