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THE SHIPPING NEWS

By | January 2002

IN THEATERS IN WIDE RELEASE! “The Shipping News” is a passive film, playing it quiet and safe, hoping that the viewer will extend some good will towards it…

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THE SHIPPING NEWS

A couple of weeks ago, I had the distinct pleasure of attending a screening of one of director Lasse Hallström's most energetic and entertaining films....

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E-DREAMS

The world of the dotcom crash is ripe for material for a great documentary, however, "E-Dreams" misses the boat by essentially acting as a positive press...

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ORANGE COUNTY

When put together, the words "January" and "teen comedy" are enough to strike fear in the most hardened of moviegoers. After all, it took those three...

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C-FLAT

A brief "poetry video" to a text by Dadaist poet David Gascoyne, dating from the early 1900s. A series of nonsensical yet evocative relations between...

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ROCK STAR

Set to haunting, lovely, lyrical music for piano, strings, and winds, this video shows footage of alternative rock bands performing in clubs in New York...

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HOPE

Park calls her video an "image-based video-poem" and that is exactly what it is. Like a poem, "Hope" explores a series of related feelings by creating a...

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ABADDON

John, a young heroin addict, receives a fatal overdose from his companions, who abandon him to die in an alley outside of a New York club. As he lies...

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SHORT VIDEOS OF ELIZABETH HALL

THE FAT GUY AND THE PINK HOUSE trt: 1 minute (2002) A brief video haiku of scenes from the beach. Swimmers, a pink house, lightning, a sudden...

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TEARS OF A BLACK TIGER

Before its first screening in the 'Un Certain Regard' sidebar, the sales agent Fortissimo (who are specialists at selling Asian movies to Western buyers)...

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PORNO

There are lots of places one could spend Christmas Eve. Hanging out at an adult bookstore, however, probably wouldn't be way up there on the list. Yet,...

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