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Sunday

An Unlikely Explorer Stumbles Into Controversy

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Director Cristian Mungiu on the set of his new film, Beyond the Hills. As in his earlier 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days, the filmmaker focuses on two young women adrift in the post-Soviet wilderness of Romania. Sundance Selects hide caption

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Saturday

"It's about being here in the moment, accepting one another and allowing creativity to flow." - Stefon Harris Alan Klein/TED hide caption

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Stefon Harris: Are There Mistakes In Jazz?

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Friday

Jean (Vincent Rottiers) assists his ailing father, the artist Pierre-Auguste Renoir (Michel Bouquet), in his studio on the French Riviera. Samuel Goldwyn Films hide caption

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A Film So Sumptuous, 'Renoir' Himself Might Have Helped Out

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Over the past three decades, Arthur and Cynthia Wood turned their four-story home into a work of art. They purchased the brick tenement at the intersection of Downing and Quincy streets in 1979 for $2,100 in cash. Courtesy of Chris Wood hide caption

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In director Danny Boyle's upcoming film Trance, James McAvoy plays Simon, an art auctioneer whose gambling problem pushes him into an awkward relationship with a group of criminals. Fox Searchlight Pictures hide caption

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Why Actor James McAvoy Almost Turned Down 'Trance'

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The bewildered Dolph (Jack Plotnick) is just as baffled about the bizarro plot of Wrong as most of the audience will be. He's searching for his missing dog — or something like that. Drafthouse Films hide caption

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Rodney Ascher, director of the experimental documentary Room 237, leads an exploration of differing interpretations of Stanley Kubrick's classic horror film The Shining. IFC Midnight hide caption

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