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AUDITION

By | April 2000

LOCAL HEROES INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL REVIEW! The pace is not fast, not slow, the characters seem straight out of any corporate culture, but right around the half-way mark there is a slight mood shift…

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AUDITION

Part of the reason this new film from The Bird People of China director Miike Takashi is so alarmingly creepy is that the first 50 minutes of the picture...

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JUHA

Aki Kaurismäki, the Finnish director behind Leningrad Cowboys Go America and last year's Drifting Clouds, has created a movie more ambitious than Eyes...

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READY TO RUMBLE

David Arquette, Scott Caan, Oliver Platt and Martin Landau star in one of the worst films of the millennium, "Ready to Rumble". Gordie (Arquette) and Sean...

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RULES OF ENGAGEMENT

One of the most damaging developments to Hollywood in recent years isn't that indie films are selling out, or that all the filming's been relegated to...

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28 DAYS

It's hard to think of two topics more weighed down by dogma in our popular culture than 'religion' and 'drugs' (ok, maybe race and family). Various vices...

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RULES OF ENGAGEMENT

Once upon a time, William Friedkin made good movies. This is not one of them. As late as the mid-'80's, the man behind "The Exorcist" and "The French...

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THE BALLAD OF RAMBLIN' JACK

Ramblin' Jack Elliott couldn't find his old house. This unheralded protege of Woody Guthrie, major influence on a young Bob Dylan, and relatively unknown...

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ORIGINAL DINER GUYS

Not to be a stick in the mud amidst all the male-bonding and tough-love going on here, but who really cares? Yes, Barry Levinson's directorial debut...

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THE WEDDING COW (DIE HOCHZEITSKUH)

Nominate "The Wedding Cow" for next year's Academy Awards. The category: Best German Romantic Comedy Starring A Bovine. Sure it's a stretch, but this...

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THE KILLER STORM

It's The Weather Channel on the big screen! Actually, this interesting and (melo)dramatic, if unfocused documentary about the freakish 1991 Halloween...

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