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B-MOVIE FESTIVAL CELEBRATES LOW-BUDGET FILMS

By | February 2000

The festival defines a “B-Movie” as a low-budget film which provides a level of entertainment which surpasses big-budget mainstream pictures…

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B-MOVIE FESTIVAL CELEBRATES LOW-BUDGET FILMS

Filmmakers seeking to carry on the rich tradition of the B-Movies are being invited to submit their features and short films to the second annual B-Movie...

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ENTER

A friend of mine, trying to explain Los Angeles' drabness and its lack of a soul relative to so many other cities, once described that endlessly sprawling...

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So you want to watch a movie but you just don't have the time? Well, director Josh Ferrazzano has perfected a filmmaking technique that makes movies to fit...

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Borrowing text from Thomas Pynchon's novel "Gravity's Rainbow," "Descent" purports to be a "visual journey across the theater of war." Perhaps, but this...

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I love it when films do this. All we ever see in David Rosenthal's "Absence" are shots of an old man (Benjamin Feuer) running through the woods in apparent...

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Mike Figgis is a soft-spoken but passionate man who, with his composer's mane of untamed curly hair and wire-rimmed spectacles looks as if he might be an...

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HERE WE ARE WAITING FOR YOU

The title is taken from the gate of a cemetery located in a small Brazilian town; its message a grim bit of humor that somehow seems appropriate for the...

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