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The Iraq movie we've been waiting for

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Nick Broomfield's pulse-pounding "Battle for Haditha" turns the infamous 2005 civilian massacre into a haunting classic about the inhumanity of war.

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Saturday, Sep 6, 2008 14:17 EDT
A Jewish family's hidden shame
Claude Miller's wrenching "A Secret" distills the French nation's Nazi-era guilt into one family's incredible-but-true wartime story.
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What I'm Reading

Toronto Watch: Burn After Reading (Variety.com *)
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Thompson on Hollywood, 2008.09.05
Shorts, 9/5.
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Some Came Running, 2008.09.05
Random thought. (Glenn Kenny)
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Bruce Nauman: Make Me Think (noreply@blogger.com (Keith Uhlich))
The House Next Door, 2008.09.05
The Romance of Astrée and Céladon (Nathan Kosub)
Reverse Shot, 2008.09.04
Testing 1-2-3
The Reeler, 2008.09.02

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