ALIVE

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ALIVE

This is the story of a young woman's struggle to live on following a brutal gang-rape. It's also French. Knowing that, you'd expect the movie could have...

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RAIN

Katherine Lindberg's "Rain" starts off in high-flown indie-artsy territory and ends up thrashing in the gutter of trash melodrama. If Douglas Sirk had been...

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PUMPKIN

Yes people, nothing is sacred in film any more. Boldly and hysterically going where the Farrelly Brothers have barely tread, I present to you Adam Larson...

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SOFT FOR DIGGING

"Soft for Digging" is an inventive little creeper shot in rural Maryland by a twentysomething director for very little money. While it may not banish...

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MY FATHER, THE GENIUS

Architect Glen Howard Small wanted his daughter, Lucia, to write his biography. Instead, she made a documentary about him. The result is "My Father, the...

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I KNOW WHERE I’M GOING

"I Know Where I'm Going" begins with a striking handheld closeup of a young woman on hold with her credit card company. Other mundane images follow: her...

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THE MAN WITH A DV CAM

Just because you have a DV camera doesn't mean you can actually use it. Maybe "The Man with a DV Cam" is intended as a send-up of pretentious art-school...

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VESSEL WRESTLING

Filmmaker Lisa Yu depicts a simple domestic tableau - a woman cooking dinner for her man - as a bizarre, sensual freakshow. She describes her film as...

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SASTUN: MY APPRENTICESHIP WITH A MAYA HEALER

Despite the unwieldy title, this is a fascinating and poignant documentary, efficiently packing reams of information into just 20 minutes. "When you are...

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ISRæL IN EXILE

"Isræl in Exile" is nominally the story of a Mexican boxer who has run from a painful past and settled, "in exile," in Chicago. The film repeatedly...

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