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GREEN BUSH

By | January 2005

SUNDANCE SHORT 2005 REVIEW! While many of the players are nonactors whose remarkable faces imbue wordless roles with credibility, the picture ultimately succeeds because of Page’s winning performance…

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GREEN BUSH

A charming slice-of-life piece about a low-rent radio station in Alice Springs, Australia, “Green Bush” is more effective at defining a fictional world...

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IT’S LIKE THAT

This short from Australia’s SLAG (Southern Ladies Animation Group) takes real recordings of refugee children held in detention and puts them in the...

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LET THE GOOD TIMES ROLL

Lost in the desert, searching for the shuttle that’s supposed to take him to a major music festival, a bored man decides to turn his camera on his new...

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A THOUSAND ROADS

A quietly inspiring tone poem from a director previously known for down-to-earth character pieces, “A Thousand Roads” is beautiful enough to be shown...

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THE BOOTLEG FILES: “BRING ME THE HEAD OF CHARLIE BROWN”

BOOTLEG FILES 041: "Bring Me the Head of Charlie Brown" (1985 student film by Jim Reardon). LAST SEEN: We cannot confirm the last public presentation of...

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MIRRORMASK

Welp, I went in expecting a little something like “Labyrinth” and all I got was this crummy movie. Oh, Jim Henson Company has it really come to...

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AMONG THIEVES

In a Sundance overflowing with great shorts, “Among Thieves” stands out as one of the best. A riveting tale of betrayal, loyalty, and compassion,...

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IN THE MORNING

Themes of honor and revenge have rarely been as brilliantly explored than in the short “In the Morning”. Based on a true, Danielle Lurie’s bold and...

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IN TIME

In the uneven and somewhat shapeless short “In Time,” Bisi (co-director Adetoro Makinde) is a Nigerian American torn between the ancient traditions of...

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SPELLING BEE

Maybe it’s the lack of sleep or the thin Park City air, but I’m simply compelled to give the highest star rating to a farce featuring Charlie Sheen. ...

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