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From "Leap Year at the Movies": How Martin Ritt Debut Helped Introduce Brazen Sidney Poitier

How do some motion pictures both entertain and enlighten?

How might they elicit both personal memories and select historical events?

What if you spent an entire year where you viewed one film a day?

. . . Here’s another excerpt from

Leap Year at the Movies: 366 All-Time Greatest Films (of the Past 104 Years). . . .

By William R. Boyer

#309 (FEBRUARY 28)

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