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WAKE UP! DO THE RIGHT THING RECONSIDERED (part 2)

By | January 2001

It must be admitted that Spike Lee didn’t do much to help his audience understand the film…

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WAKE UP! DO THE RIGHT THING RECONSIDERED (part 2)

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It must be admitted that Spike Lee didn't do much to help his audience understand the film. In fact he was so appalled that it was misunderstood and at the...

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WAKE UP! DO THE RIGHT THING RECONSIDERED (part 3)

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Danny Aiello's Sal argues quite elegantly that insurance money does not replace the sentimental value of the pizzeria that he literally built himself. He...

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THE DUDE'S SUNDANCE LOVE RANT

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Here is the unedited, real e-mail (not that fake crap you read on some film sites) that Jeff "The Dude" Dowd sent out just before the Sundance 2001 Film...

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WHATEVER HAPPENED TO THE "SECAUCUS SEVEN?" (part 3)

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"Acting is cheap," explains Sayles. "I knew I couldn't afford lots of moving cameras, and cranes and dollies, so I needed to get movement into the film,...

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WHATEVER HAPPENED TO THE "SECAUCUS SEVEN?" (part 2)

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It's hard to believe it's been over twenty years since this film came out. Really hard. "Return of the Secaucus Seven" has no real conflict, except the...

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SUNDANCE 2001: BY THE NUMBERS

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There's an old myth that Sundance skeptics like to repeat, "They only show films that already have distribution!" Out of 114 films playing at Sundance,...

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SUNDANCE 2K1: DIGITAL MYTHS AND REALITY

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The introduction in the 1990s of low-cost digital cameras and post-production tools to edit features for professional exhibition was heralded as the...

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WHAT WILL THE TIDE BRING IN "CAST AWAY?"

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THE CRITIC DOCTOR EXAMINES: Roger Ebert (Chicago Sun-Times), Ron Wells (filmthreat.com), Kenneth Turan (Los Angeles Times), MaryAnn Johnson...

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THE DEATH OF THE SPECIAL EDITION DVD (part 2)

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In the beginning... ^ Even in its infancy DVD was a robust, extraordinary film medium. It was cheap enough for the average consumer to afford yet held...

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THE DEATH OF THE SPECIAL EDITION DVD (part 3)

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Money Squabbles ^ But not everything was peachy keen in DVD land. When you have it so good for so long, problems are bound to arise. The phenomenon had...

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