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REFRIGERATOR ART: MY FAMILY

By | January 2004

Billy’s crayon created stick people come to life as he tells the story of his wonderful family, which includes an abusive father and an alcoholic mother, who drinks her magic potion that makes her dance and pass out…

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REFRIGERATOR ART: MY FAMILY

Billy’s crayon created stick people come to life as he tells the story of his wonderful family, which includes an abusive father and an alcoholic mother,...

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BROADWAY: THE GOLDEN AGE

"Broadway: The Golden Age" is a well-intended but hopelessly ill-focused documentary which wants to be the "That's Entertainment!" for the New York theater...

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PHILADELPHIA, HERE I COME (DVD)

Brian Friel's drama "Philadelphia, Here I Come!" was created with a rather fey novelty: the central character, a young Irishman preparing to leave for a...

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GUIDELINES FOR PUBLIC SPEAKING

When I was in film school, there was a professor who was well-liked because he always got the best possible prints of old movies for his classes, sincerely...

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NO MAN’S LAND

Like a stage play, this acclaimed Bosnian film keeps its drama very tightly focussed: it's basically three characters and one location. And it's riveting...

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FALLING

A rapid collage of images, including a rollercoaster, an airplane, a temptress in dark glasses eating an apple and other foods, the same woman in another...

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TOTALLY BLONDE

The tag line for this film is “Meg finds out if blondes really do have more fun.” Well Meg may have found out but we the viewers are left in the cold...

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TOKYO GODFATHERS

I don’t usually go out of my way to see Japanese animated films. There’s a subset of people out there who hate Anime films because A) They’ve...

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PRISONER OF PARADISE

"Prisoner of Paradise" is a documentary that details the curious life of Kurt Gerron, a German-Jewish actor and filmmaker who is barely remembered today...

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ON THE KILLING FLOOR

This budgetless handheld documentary details the daily process in a tiny New Jersey slaughterhouse. It sounds like an instant winner, and “On the Killing...

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