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THE KNOCKING

By David Finkelstein | November 2008

A highly evocative and poetic collage of images and sounds, Darrin Martin’s “The Knocking” immediately seems as if it is obliquely referring to the Holocaust…

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THE KNOCKING

A highly evocative and poetic collage of images and sounds, Darrin Martin's "The Knocking" immediately seems as if it is obliquely referring to the...

“ONE SERIOUS JOKE” ON EZRA STEAD

It's endlessly debated, and no matter what answers you seem to come up with, there always seems to be a paradoxical counter-view that makes you question it...

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KANIZSA HILL

They come along every so often, and I just don't know what I'm supposed to make of them. Evelyn Lee's "Kanizsa Hill" is an animated experimental film about...

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IRIS SCAN (DVD)

The Index DVD label has provided a great service by making this collection of Mara Mattuschka's short films, spanning a period of 20 years, available to...

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BARSTOOL COWBOY

In the tradition of "Midnight Cowboy" and "Drugstore Cowboy" comes another film with the word “cowboy” in the title! I don’t mean to undermine this...

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FORFEIT (DVD)

I love a good heist movie. Being a middle-class, nine-to-five kind of guy most of the week -- I often times find myself fantasizing about pulling off the...

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REVANCHE

Uh oh! It’s another hooker in peril film! That’s how “Revanche” begins, anyway. But in two hours, filmmaker Gotz Spielmann smoothly transports us...

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STILL ORANGUTANS (AINDA ORANGOTANGOS)

1 town, 15 characters, 1 take, 0 cuts, 81 minutes long. As succinctly as humanly possible, that sums up Gustavo Spolidoro's film "Still Orangutans." Taking...

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PARADISE

Ever go over to someone’s house and they force you to sit down and watch amateurish home videos they shot or, worse, look through their photo albums? If...

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WENDY AND LUCY

On a sunny day in Oregon, a young girl named Wendy (Williams) and her dog Lucy pull into “Anytown U.S.A.” for the night. Wendy and Lucy are on their...

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