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MICROCINEFEST: UNDERGROUND FILMS WITH BITE!

By | December 1999

Microcinefest presented a wide range of works with a substream/psychotronic bent with emphasis on the festival motto, “Big ambition on a little budget”…

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MICROCINEFEST: UNDERGROUND FILMS WITH BITE!

Film and video makers and watchers gathered in Baltimore, Maryland for the third annual Microcinefest. Screenings took place at the G-Spot (a loft space...

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BICENTENNIAL MAN

I love surprises, especially when presented with something that looks like a piece of schlock crap but turns out to be a gem in the rough. It doesn't...

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STUART LITTLE

"From the co-director of The Lion King" comes this lightweight tale of a mouse adopted into a human family. Based on the series of children's books by...

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THE CIDER HOUSE RULES

Novelist John Irving wrote the screenplay based upon his novel because he felt it was important and didn't want some hack to screw it up like most of the...

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ANNA AND THE KING

Here's another shot by a studio at the sweeping, epic romances that they used to make. This time it's based upon the time King Mongkut of Siam (Chow...

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THE THIRD MIRACLE

On the heels of faith questioning flicks "Stigmata" and "Dogma," this miracle seeker from the director of "Europa Europa" and "The Secret Garden" is more...

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MISS JULIE

In Figgis' last film, "The Loss of Sexual Innocence," the angular Saffron Burrows played a longing soul who seizes the fruit of forbidden passion at the...

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HOME PAGE

The year was 1996 and 43-year-old documentary filmmaker Doug Block couldn't escape the buzz surrounding the World Wide Web. Intrigued, Block dropped his...

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PERFECT BLUE

Okay, word association time. Name a "Japanimation" movie currently in release which starts with the letter "P." Nope, not that one. In fact, leave the...

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SLEEPY HOLLOW

What we have here is the product of two men. After his screenplay for "Seven" was produced, Andrew Kevin Walker's retelling of this Washington Irving story...

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