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What's Showing In Independent, Foreign & Documentary Films

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It's not every day you can have a coherent conversation on topics ranging from "Seoul-crushing" monsters to daytime vampires and a movie about making a movie, but Up To Date's film critics manage to pull it off. Today, they review a very wide array of indie, foreign, and documentary cinema, including Graduation, The Transfiguration, After the Storm, The Lost City of Z, Cézanne et Moi, Free Fire, Their Finest, Tommy's Honour, Colossal, and T2 Trainspotting. They also remember the career of Jonathan Demme, the Academy Award-winning director behind The Silence of the Lambs, who died on Wednesday.

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