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SYLVIA

By | June 2003

This film doesn’t focus on gross-out elements of post-mortem relationships, but rather on the lonely existence of a man who can only befriend dead people…

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SYLVIA

Beautician for the dead, Stan, is the Dr. Dolittle of the mortuary as he talks to the corpses and they talk back while he makes them up. He treats them...

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SONG OF THE ROAD (Pather Panchali)

This first film from cinematic maestro Satyajit Ray is getting a reissue to mark 10 years since his death in April 1992. It is quite simply a movie...

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BEER MUSCLES

The age old agnostic debate that placing monkeys in a room with typewriters would eventually produce the works of Shakespeare is legendary, but easily...

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Entertainment Weakly I hope all of you out there realize what a debt of gratitude we owe to Entertainment Weekly for the cover story it ran on the ‘Top...

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Nature vs. Nurture; a debate over which one influences us more that's raged for years and will continue to do so for years to come. "Manito," the grimly...

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I have to admit, this is the first Seijun Suzuki film I’ve ever seen, even though I’ve heard his name float from the mouths of Asian cinemaniacs over...

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Your typical slasher flick from the 1980s was a morality play, of sorts. The guidelines were always apparent, even before Wes Craven laid them out in...

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GETAWAY

A young couple’s attempt to rekindle their faltering relationship is thwarted by a psychotic, axe-wielding maniac in the ridiculous horror film...

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MICROCINEMA’S INDEPENDENT EXPOSURE: SCHOOL’S OUT EDITION

In this new “Independent Exposure” program, there is a heavier mixture of experimental films as well as animation and it couldn’t be better. The...

NEW YORK IS TURNING JAPANESE

The first annual NEWYORK-TOKYO Film Festival, taking place at the Tribeca Grand Hotel, June 13 - 15, will present the cutting edge of Japanese cinema. So...

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