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Philadelphia's Peter Rose Remaps Urban Topography in His Experimental Filmsnew

He started making films in 1965, an era when experimental filmmakers sought to escape the confines of narrative and expectations of aesthetic beauty through making work that returned ceaselessly to the basic questions of the medium.
Baltimore City Paper  |  Martin L. Johnson  |  09-09-2008  |  Profiles & Interviews

Young Novelists Navigate Ambition and Their 20s in Coming-of-Age Flick, 'Reprise'new

Although it has its moments, for the most part it is a shopworn story of young, well-off people who confuse celebrity with greatness and suffering with an unsatisfactory job.
Baltimore City Paper  |  Martin L. Johnson  |  07-01-2008  |  Reviews

Digital Video Has Become as Unreliable a Narrator as Celluloidnew

Hollywood has finally started to respond to the success of YouTube and other online video sites. Cloverfield, Redacted, and Diary of the Dead purported to be "found" videos, made by someone who didn't plan for their footage to wind up in a movie theater. But video looks too good to be "real."
Baltimore City Paper  |  Martin L. Johnson  |  06-24-2008  |  Movies

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