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Book pick: 'Never Coming to a Theater Near You' by Kenneth Turan

by Kerri Miller, Minnesota Public Radio

11:55 AM, May 8, 2012

Kerri's book Pick of the Week is Kenneth Turan's "Never Coming to a Theater Near You." Turan calls his book "a guide for the perplexed."

If you know you want to discover new movies and are tired of the Hollywood blockbusters, Turan has assembled a list of old, new, foreign and domestic films that probably never got a screening at your local multiplex. From "Living in Oblivion" to "The Dream Life of Angels."

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