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Weekend Movies: Heart Of A Dog, Andy Warhol’s Star System, The Assassin, and more

Heart Of A Dog is a uniquely constructed documentary from the multi-talented musician and moviemaker, Laurie Anderson, as she abstractly pieces together substantial grief and loss she’s faced throughout her life: the passing of both her cherished dog Lolabelle as well as her mother, her feelings towards America’s post-9/11 state, and the absence of her late husband, Lou Reed, which she cannot bring herself to discuss, all of which unfold throughout this breath of cinematic fresh air.

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Nothing Special: Andy Warhol’s Star System acts as a time capsule that takes viewers back into the time of Warhol’s 1960’s film collective: a series of experimental glamour productions that, although seemingly amateur, features an entertaining selection of innovative film techniques and stars worthy of today’s day and age of Hollywood.

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Nasty Baby tells the story of a performance artist offering up his partner to be a sperm donor for their female best friend, whom they hope will help them conceive a baby, but leads to a conundrum of awkward circumstances.

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Our Brand Is Crisis is a political comedy with a political strategist, played by Sandra Bullock, swooping in to save the Bolivian presidential candidate (Joaquim de Almeida)’s campaign as it begins to unravel. 

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Victoria is a film that unravels around the overly-adventurous Spanish woman, Victoria, who is lured in by four bank robbers she encounters at a Berlin dance club, and is recruited to aid them in their next robbery, all of which viewers take in in one continuous shot. 

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Truth is a mystifying film on investigative journalism that features a dynamic duo who put their journalism skills to the ultimate test to uncover how George Bush abused his influence during Vietnam to avoid the war. The question remains as to whether or not the journalists will fight through the challenges and pitfalls of investigative journalism in order to bring their story to light.

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The Keeping Room looks like a feminist western in the way that women are taking charge of the male-dominated population during the Civil War, but is actually a film that uncovers a home invasion, where a girl and the house slave are up for the fight of their lives against Union soldiers.

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Burnt features Bradley Cooper as flamed-out chef extraordinaire working his way back to the top after the fall of his career and some time spent in rehab. His goal: turning an average London bistro into the impossibly-achieved 3 Michelin star restaurant he believes it could be, at the expense of the jobs and livelihoods of many others.

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The Assassin is an enriching take on the Chinese wuxia genre featuring a young woman who is trained in their form of sword-fighting in order to murder her cousin, a powerful governor of the province of Weibo. 

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Suffragette is the story of a 20th century woman who, tired of her status in life as a laundress, turns toward the Suffrage movement as an escape from her problems, but is unfortunately rejected by her husband in doing so. While the fight for freedom may seemingly stop there, the protagonist, played by Carey Mulligan, suffers through much more than rejection through this telling film.

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Fat is a touching semi-autobiographical film by director and producer Mark Phinney who highlights his personal battle with weight gain and depression through the film’s protagonist, Ken. The story is told through the eyes of an addict’s rock-bottom hit, and the circumstantial relapses that similarly follow Ken as he tries to avoid junk food (his guilty pleasure) for good. 

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