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JEWBOY

By | January 2006

SUNDANCE 2006 SPECTRUM REVIEW! “Jewboy” is like “Taxi Driver” merged with Aronofsky’s “Pi…”

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JEWBOY

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Yuri (Ewen Leslie) is an up-and-coming rabbi dealing with the loss of his father that causes so much grief in him; it sends him on a steadfast decline...

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JOURNEY FROM THE FALL

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At once a historical epic, at another a moving story of a family destroyed, "Journey from the Fall" leaves very little uncovered. The film tells the tale...

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WHAT REMAINS

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Photographer Sally Mann has a never ending drive to examine and photograph life. She's spent the better part of her life photographing her husband and...

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THE PETER PAN FORMULA

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The opening scene of Cho Chang-ho's sleep inducing film "The Peter Pan Formula" is one of the coolest I've seen in a while. A group of Korean swimmers are...

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GOPHER BROKE

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Besides being a colorful and entertaining computer-animated journey into the frustration of a gopher who can’t get the vegetables he wants, “Gopher...

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HOLD UP

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Too many screenwriters can spoil a film, especially when it’s only seven minutes. A robbery is at first the main objective, with Carrie (Cynthia Kaplan)...

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LIGHTEN UP

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The title’s a pun, the punchline is completely unexpected, and it’s exactly the way comedy should exist. Always unexpected, never predictable, except...

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LECHON

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The mysteries of life and death are some times so simple, and manage to pop up in the oddest places, in the most unusual circumstances when you’re a...

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THE FLOODED PLAYGROUND

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“The Flooded Playground” shows--through sometimes surreal animation--the dangers looming through childhood and our inevitable task of overcoming fears...

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HIRO

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“Hiro” is essentially a film that reveals layers underneath its premise as the film develops. What starts out as a simple life study turns in to an all...

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