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Elbert Ventura

Elbert Ventura is managing editor of Democracy: A Journal of Ideas.

Articles By Elbert Ventura

Down and Out, Not in Beverly Hills

Frozen River, Wendy and Lucy, and other great new movies about America's poor.

Elbert Ventura | CULTUREBOX | Thursday, Jan. 29, 2009, at 6:49 AM ET

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Bush on Film

Hollywood's eight-year romance with the 43rd president.

Elbert Ventura | CULTUREBOX | Thursday, Oct. 16, 2008, at 6:57 AM ET

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Candid Camelot

Robert Drew's documentaries captured the Kennedy mystique—and changed presidential politics forever.

Elbert Ventura | DVD EXTRAS | Tuesday, Aug. 5, 2008, at 5:53 AM ET

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Zodiac

File it under: serial killer flick/brief on behalf of a just, liberal society.

Elbert Ventura | DVD EXTRAS | Monday, Jan. 7, 2008, at 7:33 AM ET

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Go East, Young Man

Two-Lane Blacktop was supposed to be the next Easy Rider. But it went in a different direction.

Elbert Ventura | DVD EXTRAS | Wednesday, Dec. 26, 2007, at 12:02 PM ET

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The Original Tarantino

How Sergio Leone ushered in our borderless pop culture.

Elbert Ventura | SUMMER MOVIES | Wednesday, June 27, 2007, at 12:47 PM ET

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