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  'Restrepo' Co-Director Tim Hetherington Killed In Libya

  By Russ Fischer April 20th, 2011

  Tragic news, as Tim Hetherington (pictured at right, above) who was nominated for an Oscar for the excellent war documentary Restrepo with co-director Sebastian Junger, has reportedly been killed while documenting the rebel conflict in Libya. He and fellow photographer Chris Hondros were both killed in a mortar attack. Much of the news about the…

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  This Week In Trailers: Cropsey, Living In Emergency: Stories Of Doctors Without Borders, Racing Dreams, Distortion, Restrepo

  By Christopher Stipp May 21st, 2010

  Trailers are an under-appreciated art form insofar that many times they’re seen as vehicles for showing footage, explaining films away, or showing their hand about what moviegoers can expect. Foreign, domestic, independent, big budget: I celebrate all levels of trailers and hopefully this column will satisfactorily give you a baseline of what beta wave I’m…

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