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REVANCHE

By | November 2008

2008 AFI FEST FEATURE! Filmmaker Gotz Spielmann smoothly transports us from the seedy Vienna red light district to a tranquil farmhouse setting in this tense, and even a little naughty, revenge tale…

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REVANCHE

Uh oh! It’s another hooker in peril film! That’s how “Revanche” begins, anyway. But in two hours, filmmaker Gotz Spielmann smoothly transports us...

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STILL ORANGUTANS (AINDA ORANGOTANGOS)

1 town, 15 characters, 1 take, 0 cuts, 81 minutes long. As succinctly as humanly possible, that sums up Gustavo Spolidoro's film "Still Orangutans." Taking...

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PARADISE

Ever go over to someone’s house and they force you to sit down and watch amateurish home videos they shot or, worse, look through their photo albums? If...

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WENDY AND LUCY

On a sunny day in Oregon, a young girl named Wendy (Williams) and her dog Lucy pull into “Anytown U.S.A.” for the night. Wendy and Lucy are on their...

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BARSTOOL COWBOY

In the tradition of "Midnight Cowboy" and "Drugstore Cowboy" comes another film with the word “cowboy” in the title! I don’t mean to undermine this...

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OF ALL THE THINGS

In the 1970’s through the 1980’s there was no better songwriting team around than Dennis Lambert and Brian Potter. A few of their hit songs included...

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NO PLACE LIKE HOME (DVD)

“I don’t know the distance at all. I feel really uninformed. Like .3 mile or something like that. It’s not quite half a mile, but, you know, it’s...

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THE REPLACEMENT CHILD

"The Replacement Child" protagonist Todd Turnball (Travis Quentin Young) returns to his small hometown after a one-year stay in juvenile detention, where...

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GREETINGS FROM HAVRE DE GRACE

What is grace, and is there enough of it in our world? These are hefty questions, to be sure, and director Mark Scalese tackles them in his sweet...

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CHRONICLE (DVD)

Percussionist Chad Taylor and cornetist Rob Mazurek have been leading proponents of the underground music scene in Chicago for over a decade. They are...

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