'Black Pinocchio' Tells of Dreams and Desperation
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Some Italians want African illegal  immigrants deported, others want them arrested, but theater  director Marco Baliani believes one way to ease Italy's refugee  crisis is with a long-nosed wooden puppet.
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To play an evil-doer convincingly, Ben  Kingsley says, you must first understand the pain that turned  that person into what they are.
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In this age of âShrekâ and âEnchantedâ comes âThe City That Cried Wolf,â a theatrical take on fairy tales that conjures its own magic.
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Alexander Payne's heart-piercing new film about a writer on the verge of disappointment is a reason to maintain hope in the film industry.
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The enduring theme of William Friedkinâs 1980 film âCruisingâ is the reality of evil and its uncomfortable proximity to sex.
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A familiar underdog story told with unusual sensitivity, Davis Guggenheimâs âGracieâ depicts the obstacles faced by a young girl who dreams of playing on her high school soccer team.
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Many still recall how some sensitive viewers swooned or had to leave screenings before the end of his now classic gut-wrenching story of love and death pierced by fishing hooks.
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A dark fairy tale from Russia, âThe Italianâ pulls you into a richly atmospheric, persuasively inhabited world teeming with foundlings and pathos.
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"Pan's Labyrinth" is a political fable in the guise of a fairy tale. Or maybe it's the other way around.
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The recent death of poet Czeslaw Milosz robs the world of one of its most prophetic and powerful voices.
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A bluntly heart-tugging city-mouse, country-mouse fable from Iran.
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Other kids dreamed of being Batman, Zorro, Davy Crockett. Maybe, if they were a little more sophisticated, one of &quot;The Three Musketeers.
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The literature of the American theater is chockablock with dysfunctional-family dramas, stories about fathers loathing mothers, wives resenting husbands, brothers and sisters who care too much
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ThereÂs a strange sublime and stupendous stir of echoes reverberating across the universe. ItÂs the sound of Sanjay Leela BhansaliÂs Black.
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The journey of Henry Winterstern is a classic tale of Hollywoodâs irresistible lure and the hubris that so often leads to a sudden demise.
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Buddhadeb Dasgupta's film has a dream opening in Toronto.
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Black might be a brave effort at cinema but the booking charts at Liberty scream otherwise.