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JULIE & JULIA

By | August 2009

Julie’s setbacks are dealt out like the hand in a game we don’t want to play anymore. We want to drop the cards and stay over at Julia’s winning table.

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JULIE & JULIA

A Different Kind of Internet Stalking Here's an entry in what we could call “Streep camp”: recent films in which the longtime star drops vocal and...

BLISS

Abdullah Oguz’s “Bliss” focuses on a contemporary Turkey that is straddling the modern world while still retaining barbaric old customs. In this...

LADY TROJANS

Catalina High School in Tuscon, Arizona wasn’t that much different than any other American high school in the 90’s. That’s what makes the true story...

BORN WITHOUT (NACIDO SIN)

Jose Flores, the subject of this documentary which screened at this year’s LAFF, was born in Mexico without legs and some missing toes. He makes his...

THE PERVERT’S GUIDE TO CINEMA (DVD)

Alright, calm yourselves, you pervs – and head over to your favorite tubeporn site if that's what you're thinking. What we have here is a solid piece of...

BATTLING THROUGH SIFF 2009’S “FLY FILMMAKING CHALLENGE”

Each year, the Seattle International Film Festival invites four local filmmakers to go head-to-head in what is called the Fly Film Challenge. The challenge...

BERGMAN ISLAND: CRITERION COLLECTION (DVD)

Near the end of his life, the legendary Ingmar Bergman granted documentarian Marie Nyreröd several interviews from his home on Faro Island. He lived there...

PAPER MAN

Jeff Daniels is Richard Dunn, a middle-aged writer — aka "Paper Man" — with a nasty case of writer’s block. His last book bombed, his marriage to a...

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