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Coppola's newest film shows us how Priscilla Presley was swallowed whole by Elvis and his world, compelled to be the person he wanted her to be at a time when you are meant to be discovering yourself on your own terms.…
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David Farrier’s latest documentary about a strange conman in New Zealand sends the filmmaker down an unsettling rabbit hole.…
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