Monthly Archives: May 2001

KUBRICK IDEAS ON A CORMAN BUDGET: THE GREATNESS OF MONTE HELLMAN

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MONTE HELLMAN EXCLUSIVE! Monte Hellman was making pictures that were “out there” years before guys like Scorsese, Coppola, and Bogdanovich, and he got his big break the same way they did: through legendary producer Roger Corman…

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KUBRICK IDEAS ON A CORMAN BUDGET: THE GREATNESS OF MONTE HELLMAN

It seems like anyone who's not a major film buff doesn't really have any idea who director Monte Hellman is. It's their loss. Most people can name-check...

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2001 STUDENT ACADEMY AWARD FINALISTS

Thirty-eight students from twenty-two colleges and universities around the country have been selected as finalists in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts...

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"CARVING OUT OUR NAME" CONTEST DIGS DEEP

To help celebrate the launch of their new website, the minds behind the indie feature "Carving Out Our Name" began sponsoring a contest back in February:...

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THE TRUMPET OF THE SWAN

Why is it that the older people get, the more they think they are above animated features? Sure, not all feature length cartoons were intended for an...

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TIME AND TIDE

Free of the dead weight known as Jean-Claude Van Damme, with whom he was saddled in two failed attempts at Hollywood hackwork, Hong Kong action director...

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PAVILLION OF WOMEN

"Pavilion of Women" is quite obviously a labor of love for its star, award-winning Chinese actress Luo Yan. Not only did she produce this adaptation of...

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BREAD AND ROSES

Ken Loach, that champion of the British working class, turns his attention to the voiceless masses in America for the first time--with mixed results. The...

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A KNIGHT'S TALE

If there is one thing Hollywood doesn't need any more of, it's stories that follow that age old "follow your dreams" theme. After all, if there are two...

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STRIPORAMA

Hooray and hallelujah! The "Citizen Kane" of the striptease movies is coming back to the big screen! The 1954 revue "Striporama" is on its way into the...

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'R XMAS

Abel Ferarra films are just plain brutal. No one who watches "Bad Lieutenant" or "King of New York" escapes those films unscathed. They transcend being...

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