PAUL SOLDNER: PLAYING WITH FIRE (DVD)

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PAUL SOLDNER: PLAYING WITH FIRE (DVD)

Paul Soldner isn’t your cranky old ceramics teacher from high school. Paul Soldner is a mastermind of modern ceramic sculpture. During the 1950s,...

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EXCESS HOLLYWOOD: REGRETS — I’VE HAD A FEW

The other day I started thinking about movies I couldn’t believe I actually paid to see in the theatre. If you watch a lot of films, you know exactly...

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MPAA ON TRIAL: JESUS VS. BILL

In this week’s episode of "MPAA on Trial", I decided to take a look at two films released less than a year apart from each other. Both films are only...

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SHOWDOWN IN WHISTLER

The legendary Filmmaker Showdown is calling for pro and amateur filmmakers to shoot, edit and produce a three to five-minute masterpiece in a frenzied...

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VERA DRAKE

The brilliantly textured and human story of Mike Leigh’s Vera Drake can be summed up in one word. Feeling. Beautifully rendered, layered feeling. The...

BROOKLYN UNDERGROUND REVEALS 2005 PROGRAM

The Brooklyn Underground Film Festival has announced its 2005 program. This year's festival includes films from Australia, Japan, Germany, Poland, and, of...

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SHARKSKIN 6

The second least appealing monetary crime is kidnapping (the first is bank robbery). Holding people for ransom just never seems to work out like you hope....

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MORE OVERLOOKED FILMS IN ILLINOIS

Roger Ebert's film festival features overlooked films, or at least that's what the title, Roger Evert's Overlooked Film Festival, suggets. Well, here's...

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MALCOLM X (DVD)

Watching “Malcolm X,” I was struck by an article I read recently in the San Francisco Chronicle. The writer had seen Rush Limbaugh speak in San Jose...

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IN THE REALMS OF THE UNREAL

The not so subtle irony of the documentary In the Realms of the Unreal is that the film’s very existence would probably be its subject’s worst horror...