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PACIFIER

By | February 2000

SLAMDANCE SHORT FILM REVIEW! Like this film’s director O. Perez, I too thought the Penthouse Forum letters were real, right along with Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny…

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PACIFIER

Like this film's director O. Perez, I too thought the Penthouse Forum letters were real, right along with Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny. As I moved into...

SURVIVING FILM SCHOOL: ONE VETERAN'S STORY

What is the attraction of film school? Buoyed in part by the well-publicized tales of the scholastic paths forged by elder statesmen such as Spielberg and...

THE LIGHT IN THE PICTURE: AN INTERVIEW WITH MIKE FIGGIS

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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CRASH PAD AND THE ONE-ARMED BANDIT

Richard Allen pulled a fast one. By combining "Crash Pad" and "The One-Armed Bandit" onto a single tape, the crafty director managed to sneak TWO shorts...

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THE ROOSTER

"Sometimes," according to the press blurb in the program, "the rooster crows, sometimes he just walks around looking for worms." 'Kayyyy. I don't know what...

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CAN'T SPEAK

I took two years of French in high school and another two in college. Yet when I actually met people who spoke French for real, I couldn't understand a...

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TONITE

Two modern day urban cowboys face off in a duel over a beautiful woman. In a deliberately cheesy, Peckinpah-influenced spray of fake blood and exploding...

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THE LAST DANCE

Growing old, as the old saying goes, is a lot better than the alternative. Even with all of the aches and pains that come with aging, just the ability to...

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BUM SPANGLED BANNER

Just as Jimi Hendrix' screeching Woodstock rendition of the "Star Spangled Banner" became a counter culture icon for the flower power generation, this...

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