Monthly Archives: March 2007

WHEN ADAN COMES HOME

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2007 SXSW DOCUMENTARY COMPETITION FEATURE! After a prison fire leaves him horribly burned, 16-year-old Adnan makes a plea for his family’s forgiveness and aid, despite their resistance to assist their troubled son…

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WHEN ADAN COMES HOME

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2007 SXSW DOCUMENTARY COMPETITION FEATURE! A terrible mistake doesn’t just affect the one who makes it, which is evident when Adnan makes the mistake of...

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EVERYTHING’S COOL

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2007 SXSW SPECIAL SCREENINGS DOCUMENTARY FEATURE! Last year “An Inconvenient Truth” hit theaters and was a huge success at film festivals. For those...

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SKILLS LIKE THIS

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2007 SXSW NARRATIVE COMPETITION FEATURE! Max Solomon (Spencer Berger) isn’t much of a writer. In fact, at the debut of his latest effort, his grandfather...

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GREENSBORO: CLOSER TO THE TRUTH

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2007 SXSW DOCUMENTARY COMPETITION FEATURE! Tragic. That is really the only way I can sum up what happened in Greensboro, North Carolina in 1979. The...

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WHEN A MAN FALLS IN THE FOREST

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2007 SXSW NARRATIVE COMPETITION FEATURE! Ryan Eslinger’s first film, “Madness and Genius,” caused a fair amount of festival buzz in its 2003 debut....

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ORPHANS

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2007 SXSW NARRATIVE COMPETITION FEATURE! Having a sibling can be hard sometimes. Having a crazy sister can be even worse. Yet if you told me I had to...

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SXSW 2007: AND SO IT ENDS…

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Sitting in the convention center, typing away at this blog while the iPod recharges prior to the flight out of town, watching the people line up for music...

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EXCESS HOLLYWOOD: FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION

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I can express some sorrow that the 79th annual Academy Awards are now a moment for the dustbin of history. I watched the event, as I often do, and used...

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CAT DANCERS

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2007 SXSW DOCUMENTARY COMPETITION FEATURE! Roy and Joy Holiday were the number one adagio dance team in the world in the 1960’s. By some strange turn of...

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KING CORN

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2007 SXSW EMERGING VISIONS DOCUMENTARY FEATURE! I hope you don’t hate corn. This review, like the documentary “King Corn,” is full of the talk of...

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