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Rover Rover found this 8/19/2008 on blog.spout.com [flag]
According to Jeff Wells , Larry Charles and Bill Maher’s Borat -style religion doc Religulous is playing this week in Claremont, CA in order to meet the Academy’s rule stating that non-fiction films must screen for one week in a commercial theater in both New York and L.A. in order to qualify for a Best Documentary nomination. “That means Religulous is probably playing in ... [link]

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Links for the Day (August 20th, 2008)
Published 8/20/2008 by Keith Uhlich (noreply@blogger.com) at The House Next Door
... 4. Karina Longworth notes that the Bill Maher/Larry Charles collaboration Religulous is now playing an unadvertised, awards-qualifying ...

Religulous reviews begin to trickle in.
Published 8/23/2008 by noreply@blogger.com (Peter T Chattaway) at FilmChat
Religulous doesn't come out until October 3, but it recently played in a couple of theatres near New York and Los Angeles, to qualify for the Academy's award for Best Documentary Feature, and a few reviews and comments have begun to surface. Robert Koehler, Variety: Skeptics unite: You only have to lose your inhibitions. That, in sum, is the underlying message of Bill Maher and Larry Charles' brilliant, incendiary "Religulous," in which comedian/talkshow host Maher inquires of the ...

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