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Anthony Kaufman is a film journalist and critic, who has written for the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune, the Village Voice and Slate, and contributes regularly to Variety, indieWIRE, the Wall Street Journal Online and the Utne Reader.
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The Political Monologue of the Year: Angela Davis

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November 3, 2011 3:06 AM
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November 2, 2011 5:20 AM
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In the last few weeks, the media has made mountains out of the economically topical movies to hit movie theaters, from "Margin Call" (obviously set during Wall Street's collapse) to "In Time" (Andrew Niccol's more sci-fi vision of haves and have-nots, battling it out for more time to survive). With their critical examinations of the corruption of wealth and power, some are arguing that there's never been a more socialist agenda at work in the movies.

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November 1, 2011 12:35 PM
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I first met Matthew Modine at the Apple Store in 2008 to discuss his work as a burgeoning filmmaker--not as the actor most known for his role in "Full Metal Jacket" and as one of the villains in the much anticipated "The Dark Knight Rises." He was showing a film called "I Think I Thought," which played at some festivals that year, and now he's back with another film, the provocatively titled 16-min short "Jesus Was a Commie," which is starting to get some major press, after winning best short film at the Traverse City Film Fest, and getting picked up by conservative media as evidence of the Hollywood Left (I heard Glenn Beck talking about it this morning on talk radio).

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