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SEPTEMBER TAPES

By | November 2004

IN LIMITED RELEASE! If the Afghanistan footage is impressive, Lars’ voiceover throughout the film is stilted, at best, intensely annoying at worst…

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SEPTEMBER TAPES

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It's one of the oldest stereotypes of war, backed up, I suppose, by reams of anecdotal evidence, that a dying soldier will call out for his mother. (I...

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Sub Rosa has been rescuing a great number of odd low-budget independent movies of late, getting the most for their money by combining features related by...

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