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Regeneration
In Tuscany's Maremma, an Italian and a French artist try to make life conform to their vision.
The Double
British director Richard Ayoade gets tangled up in noir-bizarre and loses the plot.
Peggy Sue Got Married
Coppola's "Peggy Sue Got Married" still stands out as a top-notch fantasy charmer.
Fat city
If it's breakfast oatcakes you like, ditch the butter and head for duck fat.
One ant
The story of Jesse Lanier Cooper is a deeply moving lesson in a mother's resolute love.
Lame duck III
Intense, mercurial and reform-oriented, Matteo Renzi can't shrug off the unelected label.
Death Sentence (L’Arrêt de mort)
Blanchot's seminal "novel" is about the act of creation itself, and its costs.
Crunched by numbers
IQ and GPA can be the last thing aspiring learners need to develop their minds.
My little pig
Leaping without always looking or analyzing first can make a life more interesting.
Beneath Zeppelins
Novelist Juliet West tracks two dreamers through the London firestorm that is World War I.
Sink the Bismarck!
Lewis Gilbert's 1960 standard sets a high mark for World War II dramatizations.