Free Oscar nominated documentaries at the Balboa
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All the Oscar nominated short and feature length documentaries will be shown again today (wed. feb 21).
Full schedule with links to more info on films at
FFF 2011 movie review: Bobby Fischer Against the World
The revealing HBO documentary “Bobby Fischer Against the World” is largely but not wholly based on David Edmunds’ fascinating book “Bobby Fischer Goes To War.” It peaks as Fischer did, when Fischer and the American Way routed the Russian Boris Spassky in the world chess championships in the mid-70s in Iceland, taking from the Soviets […]
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Filmmaking is Win Win for McCarthy
share: digg facebook twitter First out of the gate was the elegiac The Station Agent, the touching story of a lonely dwarf who inherits an abandoned train depot. For an encore, McCarthy made The Visitor, which netted the underappreciated Richard Jenkins an Oscar nomination for his heartbreaking portrayal of a bereaved widower who befriends illegal immigrants squatting in his New York apartment …
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