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TALKING PICTURES: BOOK CLUB

By | April 2003

Writer David Templeton takes interesting people to interesting movies in his ongoing quest for the ultimate post-film conversation. This week, author Lorna Landvik discusses addictive lit, writing prolifically, and the new documentary “Stone Reader…”

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TALKING PICTURES: BOOK CLUB

Inside a tiny upstairs theater within the Rafael Film Center, in San Rafael, California, Stone Reader, the stirring new documentary film by Mark Moskowitz,...

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TALKING PICTURES: HIT MEN

Dennis Hensley is not talking. Not much. Not yet. That’s good for the other popcorn-clutching theater bums scattered about the cineplex this sunny...

IS “DARK BLUE” REALLY “BLACK & BLUE?”

I went to "Dark Blue" with no big expectations and I left the theater feeling no different. While Kurt Russell is interesting throughout the film, there...

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