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The Devil's Own (1997)
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An Awfully Big Adventure (1995)
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Point Break (1991)
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Edward Scissorhands (1990)
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About Last Night... (1986)
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Labyrinth (1986)
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Smooth Talk (1986)
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Angry Harvest (1986)
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Marie: A True Story (1985)
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Argo: A Hollywood ending

Jim Emerson  |  2012-10-20

The story of Ben Affleck's "Argo" concerns the real-life rescue of six fugitive American embassy employees from Ayatollah "Salman Rushdie Fatwa" Khomeini's Iran in 1980. The Canadian ambassador, Ken Taylor, hid them in his home until they were smuggled out of the country 79 days after the takeover of the embassy by Iranian militants. But the movie is more substantially interested in the nature of movies themselves, and how stories get turned into them. Since its premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival last month, "Argo" has been praised as "a crackerjack thriller" (the kind of argot movie reviewers use) and criticized for downplaying the Canadians' considerable efforts and not being, you know, "historically accurate. I'm sore-y, we know it's Based On A True Story and all, but that's not really what this movie is aboot.

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#120 June 20, 2012

Marie Haws  |  2012-06-14

Marie writes: As some of you may know, it was Roger's 70th birthday on June 18 and while I wasn't able to give the Grand Poobah what I suspect he'd enjoy most...

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