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Every winter, millions of people curl up on the couch and press play on the same beloved holiday movies—whether it's "Love Actually," "The Holiday," "The Family Stone" or "Four Christmases." Snowy ...

Amos Poe, the experimental filmmaker whose raw, do-it-yourself films captured the emergence of New York’s punk rock scene and helped define the city’s underground cinema movement of the 1970s, has ...

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Every winter, millions of people curl up on the couch and press play on the same beloved holiday movies -- whether it's Love Actually, The Holiday, The Family Stone or Four Christmases. Snowy towns, ...