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Never Apologize
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10 Rillington Place
Walker
Wolfsbergen
A Wonderful World
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Envisioning Russia
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Inspired by a horrific true story about a Chinese Ph.D. candidate who ran amok on the University of Iowa campus, this elegant debut feature by the distinguished opera director Chen Shi-Zheng premiered at Sundance three months prior to an Asian student's tragic campus killing spree in April 2007. Needless to say, the events at Virginia Tech made Dark Matter a hot potato, and distribution of this critically acclaimed festival highlight became problematic. Rising Chinese star Liu Ye is moving and convincing as a humble but brilliant student of advanced physics, Liu Xing, who makes a bumpy transition into American life with the help of a wealthy university patron (Meryl Streep) who takes him under her wing. Liu becomes a protégé of his hero, famous cosmologist Professor Jacob Reiser (Aidan Quinn), but the student's original ideas put him at odds with his mentor...
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