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Critic Robert Denerstein on Foxcatcher and wrestling with a difficult subject

The movie is named for du Pont's Pennsylvania estate and it's partly about the ways in which a deluded rich man tried to buy his way into a fantasy version of himself.

‘Gasland’ misses Oscar bid but NYT story yanks red carpet out...

Actor Mark Ruffalo didn’t win an Oscar for best supporting actor Sunday night for his role in “The Kids Are All Right,” but he did make headlines for his role supporting the anti-natural-gas-drilling documentary “Gasland,” which also came up short during the annual Academy Awards. Josh Fox’s “Gasland” film was up for best documentary – an award that went instead to “Inside Job” – and Ruffalo wore a blue water droplet pin to show his support for clean water and Fox’s investigation of the drilling practice of hydraulic fracturing, including incidents of water contamination in the gas patches of Colorado. The natural gas industry has gone to great lengths to debunk the film.
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