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GHOSTS

By | January 2007

2007 SUNDANCE WORLD DRAMATIC COMPETITION FEATURE! This isn’t a movie to watch while devouring a bag of popcorn unless you have a stomach of steel or enjoy watching globs of random meat and unclean bathrooms as you swallow…

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GHOSTS

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The opening images of Nick Broomfield's "Ghosts" create the perfect visual metaphor for experience of entering a foreign land. A van drives alone across a...

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BANISHED

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"Banished" attempts to redefine the ever-controversial and hazy issue of reparations for slavery by transmitting the issue to another, more concrete story...

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I WANT TO BE A PILOT

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I wonder how many films it will take for some government in some rich country to finally step up and help those in dire need of medicine and food in...

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INTERVIEW

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2007 SUNDANCE SHORT! In the plethora of reasons why he didn’t get the job, a wrinkled shirt is the least of Mark’s problems. Director Burmeister...

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A NICK IN TIME

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2007 SUNDANCE ONLINE SHORT! Be’ Garrett’s “A Nick in Time” is a handsome short film set in an African-American barbershop. It is late in the...

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THE TRAGIC STORY OF NLING

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2007 SUNDANCE ONLINE SHORT! Hooray and hallelujah for “The Tragic Story of Nling,” which is one of the most delightfully original comic films to come...

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BLACK AND WHITE TRYPPS NUMBER THREE

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I am glad for the Sundance program notes, which offered a clue on what “Black and White Trypps Number Three” is supposed to be about: “The...

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SNUB A DUB DUB…NO “DREAMGIRLS” IN THE BEST PIC TUB

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We're sure Sundance looooves being trumped by the Oscar nominations that started being announced later in the year a lil while back. While Sundance owned...

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Sundance 07 News: PARAMOUNT VANTAGE THROWS DOWN SOME CASH IN P.C.

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Paramounts somewhat new imprint “Paramount Vantage” got into the market craze at Sundance by picking up coming of age comedy “Son of Rambow.” Said...

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2007 SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL FIRST WEEKEND WRAP-UP

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Now that the first weekend of the 2007 Sundance Film Festival is behind us, we take a look back at the films we've already seen, the blogs we've written...

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