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WILD MAN BLUES

By | April 1998

Academy Award winning documentarian Barbara Kopple (“American Dream”) follows Woody Allen and his New Orleans jazz band on a tour through Europe…

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WILD MAN BLUES

Academy Award winning documentarian Barbara Kopple ("American Dream") follows Woody Allen and his New Orleans jazz band on a tour through Europe. The...

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FRAT HOUSE

Most of us film geeks weren't members of a college fraternity, were never invited to join, and wouldn't have accepted an invitation to join even with a gun...

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GONIN

This little gem from Japan is from 1995 but just now making the rounds of art houses in the U.S. It's not unlike David Lynch directing John Waters script...

DIY FILMMAKERS: THE "VORTEX" OF WADE SHEELER

[ THE SCOOP: ] ^ Drama. A desperate gunman, on the run from a senseless murder, stumbles upon a Modern Day Shaman in the middle of the desert. As his...

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NIGHTWATCH

Hey, what's that smell? Somebody finally cleaned the 'fridge at Miramax (Dimension, whatever) and released this 1996 remake of the 1994 Danish film, both...

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THE TRUMAN SHOW

Peter Weir ("Fearless" and "Witness") directs funny man Jim Carrey in this not so funny oddity. Carrey stars as Truman, a man with the ideal middle...

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TWENTYFOURSEVEN

Recent events have reinforced the maxim that story is irrelevant if the actors and action on the screen look good. With that in mind, Hollywood should eat...

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THE FARMHOUSE

Ho hum. Another psychodrama about people with something to hide, revealed to us via that most tediously overused technique in indie film; the quick-cut,...

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LOVE AND FATE

Even though, as a white guy, it's all too easy to forget that African-Americans have prejudices as well, Kenneth Jones' fine "Love and Fate" does an...

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CONNECT 5

The surprise "find" of the festival, this no-budget, B&W affair uses an anthology structure to blend several separate storylines together into a cohesive,...

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