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THE NEW GODS

By | April 1998

When I saw this film’s premise – a poet, his musician friend and a waitress who all hang out at a bar where two of them work and the rocker plays – I cringed…

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THE NEW GODS

When I saw this film's premise - a poet, his musician friend and a waitress who all hang out at a bar where two of them work and the rocker plays - I...

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BARBECUE…A LOVE STORY

I've heard love and romance compared to many things, but barbecue's a new one on me. Yet, that's the metaphor of choice in Stacy Kirk's gritty rural Texas...

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THE NEWTON BOYS

Richard Linklatter's latest film, "The Newton Boys," a western/gangster hybrid, is an exactingly made look at one of the most successful bank robbery...

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DOING TIME FOR PATSY CLINE

This Australian comedy tracks the fantasy and real life adventures of a young outback lad who loves American country and western music. Part western, part...

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WITH FRIENDS LIKE THESE

Director Phillip Messina's With Friends Like These . . . is a Hollywood comedy (in the vein of The Player ) about a group of friends (Robert Costanzo,...

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FUNKYTOWN

"Funkytown" is a documentary filmed in the traditional shaky-handed, Hill Street Blues style about several Minneapolis bands playing in clubs and hoping...

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THE PROPOSITION

Lesli Linka Glatter's "The Proposition" is a beautiful, technically perfect period film set during the 1930's. Kenneth Branagh plays a Catholic priest who...

THE NEW YORK UNDERGROUND FILM FESTIVAL: 1998

The opening night bash was RSVP only -- fest filmmakers and press weren't allowed in without an invite! I knew NYUFF was hip, but too hip for the...

GUNFIGHT IN THE CAPITAL CITY, PART 1!: AN INTRO TO SXSW VS. THE 30TH PARALLEL FE

Scientists drool over opportunities to study rare phenomena as they happen, such as the Shoemaker-Levy comet smacking into Jupiter or the formation of a...

THE SANTA BARBARA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL: 1998

It was cold, wet, and raining as I drove into Santa Barbara for the 13th International Santa Barbara Film Festival. The perfect day to spend inside...

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