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'Crawford': Ranch Dressing

The Texas Observer | March 10, 2008

Though Bush's status as (mostly) absentee cowboy has profoundly affected the community, Bush is a spectral presence in Crawford, the cinematic portrait of a town whose population of 705 has been overshadowed by presidential entourages, outside agitators, members of the media, and curious tourists.

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Tags: Crawford, David Modigliani

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'Guilty' Examines Arab Bashing on the Big Screennew

Six years into a costly war fought on Arab soil, one might expect American media to demonize the enemy, rationalizing the necessity of killing and maiming hundreds of thousands of Iraqi civilians. But perhaps because of popular revulsion at the war, Shaheen finds cause for hope.

The Texas Observer | Steven G. Kellman | 12-03-2008 | Nonfiction

Tags: War on terror, 9/11, movies, race relations, Arabs, Guilty: Hollywood's Verdict on Arabs after 9/11, Jack G. Shaheen

Mountain Migrant Rick Bass Tries to Explain Why He Left Houston for Higher Groundnew

The American West is a receding point, measured by imagination rather than sextant, and Bass has found it in a rugged stretch of 1 million acres whose human census -- 150 -- is outnumbered by each of several other species, including black bears, owls, elk, and coyotes.

The Texas Observer | Steven G. Kellman | 07-24-2008 | Nonfiction

Tags: Texas, Montana, Rick Bass, Nonfiction Reviews, American West, Why I Came West: A Memoir

"Levy Does America," "Dissenting from the Work Ethic," "Cormac McCarthy Imagines the End"new

AltWeeklies Award - Arts Criticism

The Texas Observer | Steven G. Kellman | 04-21-2008 | Media

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A New Documentary Chronicles a Family's Everyday Life in a Mexican Border Townnew

While the emotional connection between the filmmaking couple and their subjects made Intimidad possible, it also created dilemmas. Redmon and Sabin struggled to find a balance between documenting intimacy and maintaining respect for their subjects' privacy.

The Texas Observer | Lydia Crafts | 09-10-2008 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: Mexico, Immigration, documentary, border, David Redmon and Ashley Sabin, Intimidad