12 Years a Slave dominated the KCFCC awards, winning six of the twelve total categories, while Gravity and Her picked up two awards each.
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December 2013
The Kansas City Art Institute and Alamo Drafthouse have joined forces to bring you Film School, a weekly student curated film series. This week – A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) – Sunday, December 15th.
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If you love exploitation films at their gritty and allegorical best, then you must go and see Abel Ferrara‘s Ms. 45 tonight, December 13th, at Alamo Drafthouse KC.
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Of course, the film is full of familiar characters and cutting-edge computer-animated action scenes, yet at times this two-and-a-half-hour middle chapter lacks urgency and its easy to feel the running time.
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The fantastic Big Star documentary is opne of the best documentaries of the year, and ‘Smash & Grab: The Story of the Pink Panthers’ tells the story of a ring of international jewel thieves.
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Although it’s far from Frears’ best work, Philomena is a solid film that offers the chance for Coogan and Dench to spend much of their time alone together onscreen in discussion of everything from trashy romance novels to the existence, and nature, of a higher power.
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Out of the Furnace is one of those movies that spends so much time building mood and character that by the time the plot really kicks in, you realize it was in the service of nothing terribly special.
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All is Lost is a stranded-at-sea survival story with almost no dialogue and a soulful lead performance from 77-year-old Robert Redford.
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The ’83 US Festival was the second of two festivals Steve Wozniak put on in the hills near San Bernadino, California. A new DVD from MVD Visual is a pretty lame best-of compilation of this massive show.
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