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Ken Burns, daughter team up for justice in 'Central Park Five' ★★★ 1/2
"The Central Park Five" is an unusually good documentary about an outlandish miscarriage of justice. On an April night in 1989, Trisha Meili was beaten, raped and left for dead not far from a path in Manhattan's Central Park. Five boys between the...
Tags: New York City Police Department, Clarence Thomas, Ken Burns, Manhattan (New York City), Crime, Law and Justice
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Reel Critics: This 'Playing' is no keeper
"Playing for Keeps" employs every cliché in the PG-13 romantic comedy playbook. But the comedy is in short supply as the laughs prove to be few and far between. The end result is a big, steaming bowl of romantic mush with little connection to the...
Tags: Abusive Behavior, Uma Thurman, Movies, Entertainment, Sports
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Movie awards, TV spoilers, local theater
Well, it'll be a while before we get to see the film that was voted best picture of 2012 by the New York Film Critics Circle on Monday: Kathryn Bigelow's "Zero Dark Thirty," which deals with the hunt for O. bin Laden. It doesn't open in wide circulation...
Tags: Celebrities, Matthew McConaughey, Sally Field, Anjelica Huston, Arts and Culture
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'The Central Park Five' review: Upsetting doc recalls another inconvenient truth
*** (out of four) Hindsight can be awfully depressing and frequently chilling. You may already know the story of the five people in “The Central Park Five.” On April 19, 1989, a woman jogging in New York’s Central Park was beaten and...
Tags: Ken Burns, Ed Koch, Documentary (genre), Central Park, The New York Times
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Ken Burns Visits The Avon Theatre For a Screening of His New Documentary, 'The Central Park Five'
Ken Burns is a documentary making machine. His created series like Baseball, The Civil War and Jazz, all of which were immensely popular with the PBS crowd. He'll be at the Avon Theatre Sunday night for a screening of his film The Central Park Five...
Tags: Ken Burns, Documentary (genre), Arts and Culture, Stamford
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Telluride Film Festival lineup: 'Hyde Park,' 'Iceman,' 'Argo'
Movie fans trekking to Telluride, Colo., for the resort town’s annual film festival this weekend are set to see some of the fall’s most anticipated performances, including Bill Murray as FDR in “Hyde Park on Hudson,” Michael...
Tags: Celebrities, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Jane Campion, Vincent Price, Central Intelligence Agency
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Ken Burns, Alex Gibney, others headline Toronto documentary lineup
Ken Burns, Alex Gibney and Julien Temple headline the Toronto International Film Festival's documentary lineup this year, a program that also features work by Marina Zenovich and Matthew Cooke. Fans of nonfiction film can take in movies on everything...
Tags: Religion and Belief, Abusive Behavior, Movies, Barry Levinson, Susan Sarandon
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Cannes 2012: Ken Burns' 'Central Park Five' explores famous crime
24 Frames“The Central Park Five,” a devastating new documentary directed by Ken Burns, David McMahon and Sarah Burns that is premiering out of competition at Cannes, examines the truth around the savage beating and rape of a New York jogger. Five black...
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