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Wednesday

Brad Pitt won the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor for his work in Moneyball and in Terrence Malick's Tree Of Life, in which he plays an authoritarian father. Merie Wallace/Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation hide caption

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Tuesday

British Film Archive Discovers Lost Disney Short

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Monday

Ken Russell (1927-2011) accepts a BAFTA in 1969 for creative contribution to television. Central Press/Getty Images hide caption

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Controversial Film Director Ken Russell Dies

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Bonello's film portrays life in a Paris brothel, defined by the distress and hopelessness of the women who work there. IFC Films hide caption

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IFC Films

Wednesday

Orphan Hugo Cabret (Asa Butterfield and his vivacious new friend Isabelle (Chloe Grace Moretz) marvel at the magic of the motion picture in Hugo. Jaap Buitendijk/Paramount Pictures hide caption

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'Hugo:' A Dazzling 3-D Display Of Movie Magic

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Jason Segel (left) and Walter (voiced by Peter Linz) try to reunite the original Muppets in the new family comedy The Muppets. Disney hide caption

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The Muppet Fans Who Made 'The Muppets' Movie

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Tuesday

A silent-era superstar when we meet him, George Valentin (Jean Dujardin) struggles to keep up after Hollywood falls in love with sound. The Weinstein Co. hide caption

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In Glorious Black And White, An 'Artist' Falls Silent

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'Dangerous' minds? Psychoanalyst Carl Jung (Michael Fassbender) applies the talking cure to Sabina (Keira Knightley) a young woman diagnosed with what was then called hysteria. Sony Pictures Classics hide caption

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A Yankee At Court: In My Week with Marilyn, Marilyn Monroe (Michelle Williams) is on location in England with her then-husband, the celebrated playwright Arthur Miller (Dougray Scott), to film The Prince and the Showgirl with Laurence Olivier. Laurence Cendrowicz/The Weinstein Co. hide caption

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Who, Moi? With a telethon planned to help save the theater, Kermit tries to convince Miss Piggy to give up her Paris fashion-editor job and return to the stage. Scott Garfield/Disney hide caption

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