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127 Hours of American Cinema

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Brett Alan Dewing
Feb 01, 2011
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This year’s Academy Award nominees for Best Picture show a marked American viewpoint.  Movies like The Fighter and Winter’s Bone explore very specific American subcultures (what Tina Fey might call “real America”} in ways that Oscar films usually don’t.  They are, in that respect alone somewhat European, like the ironically titled The American.  Films f…

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