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By | September 1998
Telluride celebrates its 25th Anniversary…
The Telluride Film Festival, the venerable cinema smorgasbord set in the unlikely setting of the San Jacinto mountains of Colorado, has come under...
I could be a smartass and crack that this dreamy and poetic film by Christopher Munch was neither brisk nor in color, but I won't. It wasn't exactly...
Clumsily executed piffle. "If Only" is a one-dimensional film covering similar territory to Sliding Doors (apparently both films were shot during the same...
Commercial director Sandra Goldbacher's first feature is beautifully filmed and covers interesting thematic ground. Unfortunately, it also suffers from a...
Director Mark Christopher's "54" tells a shining part-fact/part-fiction tale of life in the world's most star-studded club of the 1970's. From the closing...
I took my girlfriend to see this film based on George Orwell's 1936 novel, "Keep the Aspidistra Flying". She thought she was watching a depression era...
All bad movies of 1998 step aside, we have the worst film of the year: "Why Do Fools Fall in Love"! In his follow-up to "Selena," Gregory Nava takes...
[ THE FILM: "GREEN (AKA WHATEVER)" ] ^ 16mm b/w, color, animation. Four slackers in Phoenix explore their internal problems while under the influence of...
"Return to Paradise" (based on the 1990 French film "Force Majeure") is a complex, yet thought provoking film about three college grads, Sheriff (Vince...
A lot of people love the John Irving novel, "A Prayer for Owen Meany." Luckily, I haven't read it, so I can't mourn for the atrocities performed on it by...