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This Weeks Movie Reviews: The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada Reminiscent of such disparate Westerns as Jim Jarmusch's Dead Man, the great television miniseries of Larry McMurtry's "Lonesome Dove," and Clint Eastwood's Unforgiven, Tommy Lee Jones's directorial debut The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada takes the friendship between two men to that ultimate resting place, the grave. Read more... Ballets Russes A charming, informative look at a most interesting portion of the history of classical ballet: the 20th century competition between two dance companies formed to fill the empty shoes of ballet impressario Serge Diaghilev. With Diaghilev's death in Venice in 1929, the Russian dance company died as well, stranding many dancers in Europe, among them some of his greatest stars. Diaghilev's great successes came not only from his talented dancers but also because of choreographers such as George Balanchine, Michel Fokine, Leonide Massine and from collaborators including artist Pablo Picasso, composer Igor Stravinsky and filmmaker Jean Cocteau. But as war approached Europe in the 1930s, the vast untouched market of the U.S. beckoned. Read more...
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