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‘Pictures’ reminds that mainstream cinema is the same ol’ beast

1968. Can there be anything new to say about that evocative year? Mark Harris’s intelligent, addictive book, “Pictures at a Revolution,” proves there is. He examines five very different Best Picture nominees that encapsulated a moment of political strife and cultural flowering: “Bonnie and Clyde,” “In the Heat of the Night,” “The Graduate,” “Guess Who’s […]

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