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NEIL SOTIRAKOPOULOUS: A DIGITAL SNOW JOB

By | September 2001

One of the most conspicuous film-related failures in recent years is the presentation of films on the Internet. However, one enterprising young filmmaker may have found part of the elusive solution to presenting online films…

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NEIL SOTIRAKOPOULOUS: A DIGITAL SNOW JOB

One of the most conspicuous film-related failures in recent years is the presentation of films on the Internet. Indeed, many of the original dot-bombs that...

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THELMA AND LOUISE

"You bitches from hell. You're gonna pay for this!" - Earl the harried truck driver. "Thelma and Louise" is grade A propaganda of the first order, sort...

NOTHING TO DECLARE: MY SHORT TIME NEAR THE TORONTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL

First, I would like to send my deepest sympathies to those who have loved and lost in New York and my full respect to those volunteers working day and...

WHY WE STILL NEED MOVIES

As of last Tuesday, I still owed Film Threat some movie reviews. But after the destruction of the World Trade Center and what looks to be the death of at...

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BOXING’S BEEN GOOD TO ME

The promotional material for the short film "Boxing's Been Good to Me" carries a quote attributed to Billy Wilder, who praises the work as a "masterpiece"...

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TUVALU

Veit Helmer's "Tuvalu" is cinematic proof that imitation may be the sincerest form flattery, but it is also the most disappointing form of filmmaking....

WHY WE STILL NEED MOVIES (part 2)

It felt as if the world was somehow ending, but all that had really happened is that America has now been placed on the same level as the rest of the...

NEIL SOTIRAKOPOULOUS: A DIGITAL SNOW JOB (part 2)

When did SaS Films begin? And why did it begin? ^ SaS Films basically started up in the winter of 1999-2000 when my parents got me a video camera for...

NEIL SOTIRAKOPOULOUS: A DIGITAL SNOW JOB (part 3)

SaS Films is notably absent of advertising or commercial endorsements. What plans are there for bringing revenue into this operation? ^ If there is one...

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FIVE LINES

Residents and visitors to Washington, D.C., might get a travelogue kick out of watching parts of "Five Lines," a new independent feature shot around the...

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