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The Village Voice: Sundance Film Breakouts Best Movies of 2013

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If France’s master post-structuralist filmmakers Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet had directed Flight, it might look something like this utterly unclassifiable whatsit screening in Sundance’s New Frontier section (devoted to works of the avant-garde). Charlie Victor Romeo consists of six dramatizations of real-life airline emergencies, performed on a spartan set by a small rep company of actors, using transcripts of the actual “black box” cockpit voice-recorder transmissions as the script. Now, CVR is a movie, albeit one shot—in 3-D.

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Can airliners really fly upside down?

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Sometimes life produces real events that rival Hollywood’s wildest imaginations. That’s what happened in 1989, when the crew of United Airlines Flight 232 achieved the nearly impossible.

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