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Readers’ Poll: Arts

by The Staff March 13, 2013

Best Movie Theater 1. Spectrum 8 Theatres 2. Regal Colonie Center Cinema 13 3. Bow Tie Cinemas Movieland Your love for the Spectrum has only gotten stronger with age: The venerable arthouse won by more than 300 votes this ...

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Fall Film Preview

by Shawn Stone September 13, 2012

Let’s forget the recently ended, thoroughly dismal summer movie season. From the horror in Colorado (which had a genuine effect on film attendance), to the generally dismal parade of actual product, the cinema summer of ...

Artists and Aliens

by B.A. Nilsson March 29, 2012

If, like me, you’re an insomniac, and/or you enjoy the early antemeridian hours, you’ve tuned in to the radio program Coast to Coast AM. Which means you’ve heard the callers, the people phoning in from ...

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onedotzero

by The Staff September 28, 2011

The last time the onedotzero international touring film festival visited EMPAC, audiences were well pleased. This explains tonight’s (Thursday’s) return of onedotzero with two distinct—and separately ticketed—programs. The onedotzero shows are noted for presenting explorations of ...

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Film Socialisme

by The Staff June 22, 2011

To many cinephiles, it’s a better world just because filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard is still in it. To others, the 79-year-old Godard is a pain in the ass. The French New Wave stalwart’s latest, Film Socialisme, ...

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Legion of Dumb

by Ann Morrow February 16, 2011

The Eagle starts as a rip-roaring adventure story about the fabled Ninth Legion, a band of battle-tested Roman centurions who disappeared after being sent into the highlands of Caledonia (Scotland), a barbarian-infested territory so ferocious ...