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LAY DOWN TRACKS

By David Finkelstein | June 2007

This film could easily be cut by a third or more and still retain all of the essential information as well as it’s leisurely pace…

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LAY DOWN TRACKS

This experimental documentary interweaves the stories of six people whose lives keep them constantly on the road. Bill Crowley, a retired worker from the...

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THE MAN WHO COULD NOT SEE FAR ENOUGH

In a brief prologue, we hear a narrative fable, a kind of mythical generative story for the film. The story concerns a man who is obsessed with seeing...

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THE GEOSOPHIST’S TEARS

This video is a sumptuous celebration of the (to the East Coast eye) astonishing landscape of the American West. The video opens with a shot of an antique...

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ODYSSEUS IN ITHACA

This video is a portrait of an empty circular parking garage. The footage is shown from the point of view of the side of a car, winding it's way down six...

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SHOGUN ASSASSIN 2: LIGHTNING SWORDS OF DEATH (DVD)

"Shogun Assassin 2: Lightning Swords of Death" (one of about eight titles this film has gone under) suffers from some of the same problems as the first...

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OMEN

This odd, affecting film shows a series of visual and sound textures which veer between abstraction and the concrete. Many sequences show a lone figure in...

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The haunted house enjoys a rich cinematic tradition, dating back at least as far as the 1924 silent short “Au secours!” This proud history works almost...

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VOX 13 (DVD)

"Vox 13," a recent DVD collection of film and video by Peter Rose exploring language and the body, is filled with wonders: visual beauty, provocative...

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THE SCIENCE OF SLEEP

Stephane (Gael Garcia Bernal) is a peculiarly awkward young man, raised in Mexico, who has returned to France to live with his French mother. (His father...

SOPRANOS MAKE A KILLING AT WOODSTOCK FILM FESTIVAL

Don’t believe the blank screen! Tony Soprano and his cronies are coming to Woodstock, and they aren’t making any graveyard trips. The Woodstock Film...

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