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Extreme Close-up
Tarnation director Jonathan Caouette turns his life story and video diary into a trippy $218.32 epic.
Columbus Alive |
Melissa Starker |
02-03-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Jonathan Caouette, Tarnation
From Park Slope to Park Citynew
Sundance is still a great destination for indie cinema, beneath the avalanche of bling.
Seattle Weekly |
Tim Appelo |
02-03-2005 |
Movies
Sundownernew
Commercialism overtakes creativity at the Sundance Film Festival.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Dennis Harvey |
02-02-2005 |
Movies
Listening to Klingonnew
The documentary Earthlings transports us into a secret society ruled by codes and wonders all its own, the province of Trekkies who joined the Klingon Language Institute.
Love Lettersnew
In this moving, deceptively simple film, a weary Chinese mailman, his son and their dog take three days to complete a grueling trek to remote villages in south Hunan.
Cleveland Scene |
Bill Gallo |
02-02-2005 |
Reviews
Cleveland Film Commission May Be Facing Its Curtain Callnew
Back in 1998, when Chris Carmody founded the Cleveland Film Commission, his goal was to rival Pittsburgh's $25-million-a-year film industry within five years. Unfortunately for the local economy, he failed to live up to his own hype.
Cleveland Scene |
James Renner |
02-02-2005 |
Movies
University Museum Cancels Showing of Film on Star's Anorexianew
A copyright lawsuit led museum officials to decide it didn't have the right to show the controversial film, in which Ken and Barbie dolls act out the story of singers Richard and Karen Carpenter.
Riverfront Times |
Randall Roberts |
02-02-2005 |
Movies
Same Old Songnew
A kindly teacher wins over his wayward students in this syrupy, hackneyed French film.
Phoenix New Times |
Melissa Levine |
02-01-2005 |
Reviews
Still Hardnew
One of the best sequences of this meditation on war and suffering takes place in the ruined Sarajevo public library, a gutted shell, with fire barrels burning in the corners of a great empty room in which people are sorting through piles of books, trying to catalogue them.
East Bay Express |
Kelly Vance |
01-31-2005 |
Reviews
Metal Health
What watching hours of VH1 Classic’s Metal Mania can teach you.
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Bill Frost |
01-31-2005 |
TV
Tags: TV
Nixon's the Onenew
With apologies to Arthur Miller, Niels Mueller's thoughtful drama might be advertised as Death of a Furniture Salesman.
Boulder Weekly |
Thomas Delapa |
01-28-2005 |
Reviews
Auld Lang Assaultnew
This John Carpenter remake may be even better than the original.
Tucson Weekly |
Bob Grimm |
01-28-2005 |
Reviews
Kick the Babynew
Disregard the awards and accolades: Million Dollar Baby is nothing more than manipulative mediocrity.
Tucson Weekly |
James DiGiovanna |
01-28-2005 |
Reviews
Forest for the Treesnew
Through all of its obvious symbolism, thinly sketched characters, portentous filmmaking technique and vague narrative, writer-director Nicole Kassell's The Woodsman remains an affecting piece of work.
Tags: Nicole Kassell, The Woodsman
Icon, I Can'tnew
John Travolta's career gets bumpier with A Love Song for Bobby Long.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Dennis Harvey |
01-26-2005 |
Reviews
