Dune: Part Two + Bye Bye Tiberias + Four Daughters
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Where the Crawdads Sing + Paper City
enJuly 21, 2022
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About this Episode
Olivia Newman talks about directing the film adaptation of the global bestselling phenomenon Where the Crawdads Sing, and filmmaker Adrian Francis on his moving doc about three survivors of the 1945 bombing of Tokyo.
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