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'The Central Park Five,' 'Paradise: Love,' 'The Sapphires' Making USA Premieres At Telluride 2012

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August 30, 2012 5:33 PM
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A few noteworthy films we've previously covered will be making their USA premieres, including Ken Burns' The Central Park Five, Ulrich Seidl's Paradise: Love, and Wayne Blair's The Sapphires.

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August 30, 2012 4:56 PM
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Congrats to Ugandan Donald Mugisha whose feature film project, The Boda Boda Thieves, continues to attract the right kind of international attention.

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August 30, 2012 3:50 PM
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August 30, 2012 3:10 PM
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August 30, 2012 2:10 PM
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My coffee table is currently packed with September Editions. Come mid-August, the year's largest issues of Fashion magazines arrive, announcing the end of summer, but providing pages full of lust-worthy items for the fall and winter months.

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August 30, 2012 1:40 PM
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One of the most notorious rock concerts ever was the Rolling Stones concert at Altamont, California in 1969. It was supposed to be the West Coast answer to the Woodstock festival, which took place a few months earlier in New York.

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August 30, 2012 1:30 PM
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Today in history, 1983... Guion Bluford, Jr becomes the first African American astronaut in space, blasting off aboard space shuttle Challenger.

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August 30, 2012 12:21 PM
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From Ivorian filmmaker Lonesome Solo (Bamba Souleymane) comes what is being described as "a raw, noir-tinged urban legend set to the cadence of slam poetry and the beat of street dance."

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August 30, 2012 11:43 AM
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Today in history... August 30th, 1967, Thurgood Marshall was confirmed as the first black Supreme Court justice.

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August 30, 2012 11:13 AM
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I want to thank filmmaker Ken Wyatt, the director of Colored Confederates: Myth or Matter of Fact (which we profiled HERE back in June) who told me a few days about the trailer for this 30 minute short film, King of the Bingo Game.

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