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By | October 2002
This job is an art form rather than a colossal waste of time…
Hitchcock once said that actors are merely cattle. Then an extra must be the cow dung of cattle. Long hours, little pay, you’d think these people would...
When it comes to short films, Bogdan Darev's adaptation of the Hans Christian Andersen tale The Angel is about as close to perfect as you can get. In the...
Here it is, the Microcinema is wrapping up this season of Independent Exposure screenings with their “Halloweird” show and it’s the best collection...
When I was young, there was a show called simply enough, “The 4:00 Movie.” Five days a week they would show old movies to fill time before local news....
The big screen has a very difficult time capturing the talent of James Van Der Beek - literally. The aspect ratio of projected film simply cannot...
"Moonlight Mile" has been touted as an early Oscar contender, and while there are definitely a number of things to admire, the film is curiously hard to...
I'm a huge fan of documentaries because I enjoy learning about new things, and I think film can be a wonderful teaching tool. Until "Breaking the Barrier"...
Everything I'd read in advance of seeing Rick (The Wood) Famuyiwa's new film suggested that it dealt with its lead character's lifelong love of hip hop as...
You know, someone may have taken the suggestion to "make some friends" a little too literally. In Lynn Hershman Leeson's "Teknolust", Tilda Swinton (who...
The visual metaphor couldn't be any more obvious...or accurate. Ana (America Ferrera), an attractive Rubinesque high school graduate with a mind as sharp...
