Movie: Altair

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    One of Klahr's masterpieces, Altair is an 8 minute collage color -noir culled from late-40s pages of Cosmopolitan, which induces a sense of claustrophobia and dread through its use of Stravinsky's The Firebird.

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    1994-12-01

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    6.5

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    3.3 starts
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