For Our Consideration

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  For Our Consideration Is an indie television movement on the verge of breaking through?

  Scenes from the 2012 New York Television Festival.

  October 30, 2012 | 10:30am -

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  For Our Consideration Two massive new comedy box sets reveal the three joys of archive-plundering

  Mel Brooks, Ernie Kovacs, and the pleasures of overstuffed DVD compilations.

  October 23, 2012 | 11:00am -

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  For Our Consideration Why Syfy’s superhero series Alphas is TV’s best show about mental illness

  The science-fiction drama turns superpowers into metaphorical illnesses, and crime-solving into group therapy.

  October 22, 2012 | 10:00am -

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  For Our Consideration Googling Sugar Man: Is it possible to remain unknowable in the Internet age?

  How Rodriguez’s comeback illustrates the difficulty of maintaining mystery in the current day.

  October 18, 2012 | 12:00am -

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  For Our Consideration A Wrinkle In Time, Scholastic, and why kids are the future of comics again

  Bam! Pow! Comics are for kids again?

  October 17, 2012 | 12:00am -

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  For Our Consideration Do documentaries need to be fair to both sides of an issue?

  Why one-sided issue docs undermine their own arguments and betray journalistic standards.

  October 10, 2012 | 12:00am -

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  For Our Consideration Dial M for 3-D: Hitchcock’s primer for depicting the third dimension

  What an almost 60-year-old movie can teach modern filmmakers about shooting in depth.

  October 9, 2012 | 12:00pm -

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  For Our Consideration What was the quintessential Charlie’s Angels undercover guise?

  Trucker? Moonshiner? Porn star?

  October 3, 2012 | 9:30am -

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  For Our Consideration Where are all the blue-collar sitcoms? 

  The working class used to be the center of many comedies. Now, it’s all but gone.

  October 2, 2012 | 12:00am -

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  For Our Consideration Why Louie is the next stage in the evolution of the TV sitcom

  Is Louie the Sopranos of television comedy?

  September 27, 2012 | 10:00am -

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  For Our Consideration Bad at 25: Looking back at how a lost, lonely Michael Jackson found his way 

  The triumphant album that doubles as the beginning of the end.

  September 26, 2012 | 12:00am -

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  For Our Consideration Should some movies be taken more seriously than others?

  Sometimes it’s okay not to look back.

  September 20, 2012 | 12:00am -

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  For Our Consideration Rich, poor, deadly, or pure: Who deserves to be the subject of a movie?

  This year’s Toronto International Film Festival raises questions about class representation.

  September 19, 2012 | 11:00am -

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  For Our Consideration In 1992, Bill Plympton made history by drawing an entire film on his own

  The Tune was an early example of what can happen when an independent animator has the means and motive to create art with no outside interference.

  September 14, 2012 | 11:00am -

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  For Our Consideration The under-the-radar 1992 crime film One False Move drew on tension in the air

  Race is at the center of a superb Carl Franklin thriller.

  September 13, 2012 | 12:00am -

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  For Our Consideration 1992: The year college rock died 

  Nirvana’s breakthrough wasn’t without some casualties.

  September 12, 2012 | 12:00am -

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  For Our Consideration How Sons Of Anarchy blew a chance to say something meaningful about race 

  In season four, Kurt Sutter’s show looked relevance in the eye and blinked 

  September 11, 2012 | 12:00pm -

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  For Our Consideration In 1992, Mudhoney made a halfhearted attempt to go mainstream

  Selling out with a shrug.

  September 11, 2012 | 12:00am -

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  For Our Consideration The Powers That Be marked a sitcom missing link 

  New feature: This short-lived sitcom was one of Norman Lear’s last. 

  September 10, 2012 | 10:00am -

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  For Our Consideration What should a sports recap show be in 2012? 

  The ‘Lights might be a step in the right direction. 

  August 29, 2012 | 12:00am -

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  For Our Consideration The promise and disappointment of the TV “mallpisode” 

  On television, malls are the paradises that turn into purgatories. 

  August 23, 2012 | 10:00am -

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  For Our Consideration The beautiful artificiality of the American mallscape 

  Appreciating the utopian dreams and weird realities of the shopping mall. 

  August 22, 2012 | 11:00am -

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  For Our Consideration Every mother’s son: Why Lynyrd Skynyrd has survived 

  Saddled with the “redneck” label, Skynyrd transcends the South by being inseparable from it. 

  August 21, 2012 | 12:00am -

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  For Our Consideration How movie malls double as accidental time machines 

  Malls are in decline, but they used to be places where everything their era wanted was gathered under one roof. 

  August 20, 2012 | 12:00am -

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  For Our Consideration Cosmopolis’ lesson about the subversive power of superstardom 

  How David Cronenberg is using Robert Pattinson to teach the Tiger Beat set a lesson about the cruelty of capitalism. 

  August 17, 2012 | 12:00am -

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  For Our Consideration How much should business affect our considerations of art? 

  Why doing something free or cheaply doesn’t entitle creators to a pass. 

  August 16, 2012 | 10:00am -

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  For Our Consideration Dance Moms and the broken promise of reality television 

  Even if it can’t be real, it doesn’t have to be like this. 

  August 15, 2012 | 12:00am -

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  For Our Consideration The telling silences of Breaking Bad 

  The show’s characters say the most when they don’t say anything at all. 

  August 14, 2012 | 12:00am -

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  For Our Consideration How Matthew McConaughey got his groove back 

  The star’s comeback couldn’t have happened without some self-reflection. 

  August 10, 2012 | 10:00am -

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  For Our Consideration You’re watching it wrong: Threats to the image in the digital age 

  High def isn’t always the same as high fidelity. 

  August 9, 2012 | 12:00am -