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• Meet the Minneapolis Movie Bears
  More than 80 bears turned up at a Twin Cities movie theater the other night. These bears were not true ursines, but members of a human social group, the Minneapolis Movie Bears.December 4, 2008
• Holiday movies with the Movie Maven
  Minnesota Public Radio's Movie Maven Stephanie Curtis talks about new releases for the holidays. She also presents her list of favorite movies from the Great Depression in the '30s.Midday, November 28, 2008
• Remembering Harvey Milk
  In the late 1970's Harvey Milk became a national symbol as the first openly gay man to win a major political election. In the new film "Milk," Gus Van Sant looks at Harvey Milk's life. One Twin Cities woman knows the Milk story very well, because she was there.November 26, 2008
• Minneapolis neighborhood becomes a movie set
  Local filmmaker Eric Howell spent a week in Minneapolis' Cedar-Riverside neighborhood shooting the film, 'Ana's Playground.'November 22, 2008
• Paul Feig celebrates the geek in all of us
  Paul Feig has made a career out of making TV shows and films which examine the lives of geeks. His show "Freaks and Geeks" launched the careers of several people who are now big names in Hollywood. Now, Feig has now turned his talents to writing children's books.November 18, 2008
• Director of new documentary wanted to get inside Garrison Keillor's head
  A new documentary about Garrison Keillor starts a weeklong run at the Oak Street Cinema tonight. "Garrison Keillor: The Man on the Radio in the Red Shoes" follows the humorist and radio host through many months of writing and performing.October 31, 2008
• Lance Hammer's 'Ballast' makes a splash
  Lance Hammer's film "Ballast" won awards at the Sundance and Berlin film festivals this year. It's drawn rave reviews from critics all over. Now Twin Cities audiences will get what may be the only chance to see the film on a big screen in Minneapolis.October 29, 2008
• Marcus and Haynes reconsider Dylan
  Cultural critic Greil Marcus, who has written for Rolling Stone for decades, and is an expert on Bob Dylan is teaching a special course at the U of M this fall. Later today in the first of two public lectures Marcus will interview film director Todd Haynes.October 28, 2008
• Dracula through the ages
  A lawyer has turned his obsession with Victorian times and its most prominent characters into a new book that catalogues everything one might hope to know about Dracula.Midmorning, October 28, 2008
• MIA exhibit showcases modern art from India
  We've all heard about India as a burgeoning economic power, but what do we really know about its people and its culture? This weekend the Minneapolis Institute of Arts is opening an exhibition of photography and video from the fast-developing country.October 24, 2008
• Louis Sachar celebrates 10 years of 'Holes'
  Louis Sachar has written many books for children in his career that have been enjoyed by adults too.October 24, 2008
• Film festival celebrates bad video
  For the last 15 years Nick Preuer and Joe Pickett have scoured garage sales, thrift shops and even garbage cans looking for bad videos. They present the best of the worst, complete with commentary, in the Found Footage Festival.October 23, 2008
• Director Mike Leigh looks for realism without a script
  British film director Mike Leigh says his course in life was set very early on.October 21, 2008
• New movie 'Fritz' tells the Mondale story
  A new documentary about the life and career of Walter Mondale will get its world premiere at the Minnesota History Center tonight.October 16, 2008
• Twin Cities surrounded by composer Portman's music
  Academy Award winning composer Rachel Portman may live in London, but her work is all over the Twin Cities right now. She wrote music for "The Duchess", the Kiera Knightley period drama showing at area movie theaters.October 9, 2008

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