Film
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NANOOK, NANOOK
Robert Flaherty’s pioneering documentary “Nanook of the North” (1922) is screened at two theaters this weekend as part of different film series. It is first shown in a series on “Essential Cinema” (Saturday, 4 p.m., Anthology Film Archives, 32 Second Ave. at 2nd Street, 212-505-5181, $8 general, $6 seniors and students, $5 members). The next day, it is part of the kickoff weekend of a series focusing on the history of reality-based film and television (Sunday, 2 p.m., Museum of the Moving Image, 35th Avenue at 36th Street, Astoria, Queens, 718-784-0077, $10 general, $7.50 seniors and students, free for members). In that series,TV is represented by old episodes of “Candid Camera” (Saturday and Sunday, 1 p.m.) and the 1983 PBS documentary show “An American Family” (Saturday, 2 p.m.).
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