| November 1 |
- A Holocaust movie unlike any other
- French screen legend Jeanne Moreau will make you weep in Israeli director Amos Gitai's breathtaking and unconventional "One Day You'll Understand."
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| November 4 |
- Movies to avoid exit polls by
- Need some cinematic therapy while waiting for election night? Here are 10 thrillers intense enough to break your 538.com addiction and get you through the long afternoon.
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| November 8 |
- The meta-Muscles from meta-Brussels
- Van Damme goes pomo Hamlet in the odd, ingratiating "JCVD." Plus: A wrenching divorce flick, Truffaut's great "Wild Child" and a gay zombie, lost in Berlin.
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| November 12 |
- Thrill ride through a "maximum city"
- Danny Boyle talks about shooting his Dickensian quiz-show saga "Slumdog Millionaire" on the streets of Mumbai (a podcast and interview).
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| November 14 |
- It's the "feel-strange" family movie of the season!
- Director Arnaud Desplechin talks about Hitchcock, Bergman, "Knocked Up," the "Scranton" of France and the superstar French cast he assembled in "A Christmas Tale."
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| November 15 |
- Teen tarts, sleeping nubiles -- and Harry
- A wrenching, sexy marriage drama from the new Ireland. Plus: Potter fans go berserk, and a dose of arty, self-indulgent Euro-erotica.
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| November 18 |
- Oscar's documentary problem, cont.
- Herzog, "Man on Wire" and "Trouble the Water" make Academy shortlist, but "Order of Myths," "Unforeseen," "Roman Polanski" and "Gonzo" are out.
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| November 19 |
- Was this the greatest football game ever?
- OK, maybe not. But "Harvard Beats Yale 29-29" still spins an improbable, Fitzgerald-meets-Updike yarn about two elite schools, a turbulent year and an unbelievable ending.
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| November 20 |
- What's behind the "WALL-E" cult?
- Is Pixar's Chaplin-meets-Kubrick robot romance really the best animated film ever? Plus: Answers to our "Sukiyaki Western Django" quiz revealed!
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| November 21 |
- Strangers in a strange land
- Shot over 23 years, Ellen Kuras' haunting Oscar contender "The Betrayal" follows a Laotian immigrant family's agonizing American odyssey.
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| November 24 |
- Drinks, dancing, dinner, self-loathing
- Director William Friedkin talks about revisiting his pre-Stonewall lightning rod "The Boys in the Band" -- and his peculiar role in the history of gay film.
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| November 26 |
- The man who blew up America's closets
- Sean Penn leaps to the front of the Oscar race with his uncanny invocation of the slain gay-rights leader. Gus Van Sant's vibrant biopic meets the challenge -- almost.
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