'The Exiles' is an excavation

Kent Mackenzie's unearthed 1961 film about Native Americans on L.A.'s Bunker Hill is an excavation itself. Kent Mackenzie's "The Exiles" feels like a snapshot from another era -- not just 1961, when it was completed, but a time when realist filmmaking was not reflexively equated with aimless story lines and haphazard camera work.

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