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GLORIA

By | February 1999

The most annoying thing about this film is that as soon as you say the title, you get that annoying Laura Branigan song stuck in your head. (You’re humming it now, aren’t you?)

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GLORIA

Type-casting is insidious. Leonard Nimoy, for instance, will always be Mr. Spock. Loretta Swift will always best be known as M*A*S*H's "Hot Lips" Hoolihan....

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THE MINUS MAN

Owen Wilson plays "Vann" the ever charming wanderer with a smile the size of Texas. Armed with only his charm and polite air, he proves to be an extremely...

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TWIN FALLS, IDAHO

One of the highlights of the American Spectrum section of the 1999 Sundance Film Festival, Twin Falls Idaho is perhaps one of the most original ideas to...

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HAPPY, TEXAS

Perhaps the most commercial film to ever come out of Sundance, this year's most talked about film is a high concept comedy that owes more to "Some Like It...

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The winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the 1999 Slamdance Film Festival, Heidi Van Lier's "stalkumentary" is a compelling low budget indie film that is as...

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PLAYING BY HEART

Sophomore writer/director Willard Carroll weaves together an all-star cast in interlocking parallel stories about finding love in Los Angeles. The film's...

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STILL CRAZY

Seeing "Still Crazy" has put me in a reflective mood. While I've retained much of my youthful weirdness, if I jump into a mosh pit now I would probably...

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AMERICAN MOVIE

Documentary filmmaker Chris Smith follows up his 1996 Sundance Film "American Job" with another mid-western story, this time entitled "American Movie", and...

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MY FRIEND PAUL

Jonathan Berman was a struggling New York filmmaker who received a call from his childhood friend, Paul. While the two, as children, made super 8 films in...

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IN DREAMS

Here's to the Sherman's March of cinema known as January -- the elephant's secret burial ground of BAD movies. Maybe in the future I can put myself in...

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