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FILM COMMENT SELECTS

February 9 through 24

Walter Reade

Samurai slaughter and political journeys collide at a cinemaniacs' annual playground date

PULP AND CIRCUMSTANCE

For the fifth year in a row, the staff of America's leading-make that only-non-academic magazine about movies reassembles its favorite festival movies from the recent past. As erratic as the judgments emitted from any locked roomful of cinemaniacs, "Film Comment Selects" is distinguished by its unflagging movie love-the only criterion is that someone's socks were somehow knocked off.

Often, the series revisits films that have slipped through the carelessly flung distribution fishnet, but this year half of the choices are ...

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