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Little Big Man

Dir. Arthur Penn
139 min
Getting Real: The Arc of American Screen Acting

Dustin Hoffman ages a century in Arthur Penn's epic picaresque anti-western, the tall tale of 121-year-old Jack Crabb, a white man rescued and raised by the Cheyenne, a one-time snake-oil salesman, gunslinger, and mule skinner under General George Custer.

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Sun Aug 03
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Wed Aug 13
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Husbands

Dir. John Cassavetes
142 min
Getting Real: The Arc of American Screen Acting

Men behaving badly: reeling from the death of a friend, three middle-aged buddies go on an epic drinking binge. It's not enough. They roll home, collect their passports, and take off for a weekend of gambling, women and booze in London.

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Tue Aug 05
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Sun Aug 10
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Nashville

Dir. Robert Altman
159 min
Film Studies Getting Real: The Arc of American Screen Acting

With 26 actors getting more-or-less equal screen time and half of them singing their own tunes, Robert Altman's state-of-the-nation satire on bicentennial USA is a movie that repays multiple views.

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Wed Aug 06
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Sun Aug 10
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Scarecrow

Dir. Jerry Schatzberg
112 min
Getting Real: The Arc of American Screen Acting

A bittersweet, touching buddy movie with Gene Hackman as a volatile tramp, Max, and Al Pacino as "Lion", a drifter now set on returning to the wife and kid he abandoned years ago. Hackman's favourite of his own movies.

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Fri Aug 08
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Sun Aug 10
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The Missouri Breaks

Dir. Arthur Penn
126 min
Getting Real: The Arc of American Screen Acting

This exuberant, wild and wooly western from Arthur Penn features a brazenly transgressive performance from Marlon Brando, while Jack Nicholson underplays masterfully as the cattle rustler he's been hired to eliminate.

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Wed Aug 13
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Tue Aug 19
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Raging Bull

Dir. Martin Scorsese
129 min
Film Studies Getting Real: The Arc of American Screen Acting

In the throes of a near-fatal drug problem Martin Scorsese made what he believed could be his last movie. Its subject: the Bronx Bull, Jake La Motta, a graceless but indomitable boxer who never quits beating himself up. De Niro has never dug deeper.

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Wed Aug 20
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Sun Aug 24
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