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WAITRESS

By | January 2007

IN LIMITED RELEASE! Adrienne Shelly’s film is a fun but sincere exploration of this conundrum, full of off-kilter characters who don’t talk like anyone in real life, but sound a truthful chord…

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WAITRESS

Things aren't looking good for the best pie-baker in town. Being pregnant only means one thing: She's tied down and therefore unable to run away from her...

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GHOSTS

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

"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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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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