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49TH PARALLEL (DVD)

By | February 2007

Incredibly, the film’s original story won an Academy Award. Today, it will generate more grimaces and groans than trophies. ..

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49TH PARALLEL (DVD)

Time hasn’t been particularly kind to this Michael Powell-Emeric Pressburger propaganda effort from 1941, which had the double distinction of providing a...

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THE SAVIOUR

When Church has become a business and business is bad and faith is down, young elder, Malcolm (Thom Campbell) finds his standard conversion is complicated...

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REVERIES FROM CISTAE MEMORIA

"Reveries from Cistae memoria" is a meditation on the flawed process of memory. The memories in question are of the filmmaker's grandparents: grandma's...

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LURK

This brief, silent collage film presents images of seduction, rape, and implied violence. A sequence of very brief shots are linked by the theme of a grid...

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CINEMA DIFFERENT VOLUME II (DVD)

This DVD is a follow up to Lowave's first collection of experimental films curated by the Collectif Jeune Cinema. They are continuing to do an excellent...

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NOS STARS/ LE PETIT DIEU (DVD)

Lowave presents two recent films by Maurice Lemaître (both from 2002), a master experimental filmmaker for over 45 years. For those of you unfamiliar with...

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TO LOVE OR TO DIE

This video is comprised of footage of shoppers in a mall: riding the escalators, peering into windows, and gliding past piles of shiny, seductive objects....

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DRIVEN

"Driven" is assembled from scenes of highway driving, screen shots of video games (both games which simulate driving and other, more violent games), and...

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MORE THAN MEETS THE EYE: REMAKING JANE FONDA / MORE THAN MEETS THE EYE: EPILOG

Most of this deceptively simple video consists of shots of the filmmaker, in a workout outfit, watching Jane Fonda's workout videotape in a variety of...

2007 POST-ACADEMY AWARDS WEEKEND WRAP-UP

Three award celebrations in two days. On Saturday we knew who had won the Spirit Awards and the Razzies, and by Sunday evening we knew whether Scorsese had...

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