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A TREE OF PALME

By | May 2003

SCREENING AT THE EGYPTIAN THEATRE IN LOS ANGELES, MAY 9TH! “A Tree of Palme” is, strictly speaking, a remake of “Pinocchio.” Luckily, its striking alien setting keeps it from becoming just another retread…

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A TREE OF PALME

In a remote corner of the planet Arcana, an aging botanist lives a solitary existence with his puppet, Palme, who has been inert since the death of Xian,...

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A MIGHTY WIND

Let’s face it. Christopher Guest is obsessed with obsessive people. In “Waiting for Guffman,” the obsession was small town community theatre. In...

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PRINCESS ARETE

Akin to this year’s Academy Award-winning animated film “Spirited Away”, “Princess Arete” concerns the adventures of a particularly resourceful...

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THE SAGA OF ANATAHAN

By the early 1950s, the great filmmaker Josef von Sternberg found his Hollywood career at a dead-end. Although hailed in the 1920s and 1930s for a series...

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WELCOME SINNERS! THE VELVET HAMMER STORY

In this charming and poignant documentary, filmmakers follow the girls responsible for single-handedly reviving the age-old art of burlesque performance in...

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THE TRIP

Music by America? NOOOOOOOOOO! Didn’t anybody see what those guys did to "The Last Unicorn"? Sure, "The Last Unicorn" was destined to go down in...

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FEAR AND DESIRE

Fifty years ago, a small and strange film called "Fear and Desire" debuted at New York's Guild Theater. It was the first feature directed by 24-year-old...

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GARMENTO

The majority of movies made today are geared towards the 18-25 year old age bracket. Apparently, they go out the most, spend the most money on movies, and...

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FRAZETTA: PAINTING WITH FIRE

“Frazetta: Painting With Fire” is a lovingly crafted look at the great fantasy artist Frank Frazetta. If you’ve never heard the name, then I’m sure...

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VELVET AND RAT SKINS

What’s that you say, little feral boy? You want to leave the squalid city floor and your friendly rats behind and climb that mutated beanstalk? What...

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