THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST
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  Year Released: 2002 MPAA Rating: PG Running Time: 100 minutes |
As identities are swapped and mistaken, all manner of frothy farce ensues…
Posted on May 22, 2002 by Michael Dequina
CRAZY JONES
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  Year Released: 2002 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 93 minutes |
Finnegan Jones is a 40-year-old cemetery caretaker with Tourette’s Syndrome…
Posted on May 22, 2002 by Phil Hall
KWIK STOP
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  Year Released: 2002 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 108 minutes |
“Falling in love will break your heart…” the soundtrack for “Kwik Stop” wails…
Posted on May 22, 2002 by Merle Bertrand
TIME OUT
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  Year Released: 2001 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 127 minutes |
There’s a fierce authenticity to this film that keeps us glued to the screen…
Posted on May 22, 2002 by Rich Cline
INVINCIBLE
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Year Released: 2001 MPAA Rating: PG-13 Running Time: 127 minutes |
PLAYING IN LOS ANGELES AND NEW YORK, SEPTEMBER 20TH! Taking a true story from Eastern Poland, legendary German filmmaker Werner Herzog creates a compelling pre-WWII drama with vivid characters and a warm, moving message…
Posted on May 22, 2002 by Rich Cline
THE PAINTING
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  Year Released: 2002 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 120 minutes |
This is the sort of film that would drive Miss Daisy to upchuck at the shenanigans of its saintly, cardboard characters…
Posted on May 22, 2002 by Bob Westal
FIELD NARROWS IN 2002 FILM SCORE COMPETITION
20 semi-finalists have been named in the Third Annual Young Film Composers Competition, and they all like to score…
Posted on May 21, 2002 by Film Threat Staff
WATERFRONT FEST ANNOUNCES LINE-UP FOR 2002
The Waterfront Film Festival announces a full slate of features, shorts and docs for 2002…
Posted on May 21, 2002 by Film Threat Staff
VC FILMFEST 2002 CLOSES WITH “PASSAGE”
The VC FilmFest in Los Angeles closes out their week-long event with Guarav Seth’s “A Passage to Ottawa”…
Posted on May 21, 2002 by Film Threat Staff
DARK BLUE WORLD
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Year Released: 2001 MPAA Rating: R Running Time: 119 minutes |
“Dark Blue World” never takes the obvious cinematic routes; this feels like a classic movie, as opposed to the revisionist stuff we’ve been force-fed lately…
Posted on May 21, 2002 by Rich Cline
SEX AND LUCIA
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Year Released: 2002 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 127 minutes |
There’s an emotional resonance here that is stunningly authentic, brilliantly capturing on-screen the joys of physical love and attraction…
Posted on May 21, 2002 by Rich Cline
LIVING IN HOPE
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Year Released: 2002 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 120 minutes |
Why is it that films set in university have an attitude that seems to say, “We’re the first film to tell it like it really was!”…
Posted on May 21, 2002 by Rich Cline
THE ALAMO TRAPS COREY FELDMAN IN A CAVE
Corey Feldman in the flesh, a special “Goonies” screening in a cave, and your own Baby Ruth bar, all thanks to Austin’s Alamo Drafthouse…
Posted on May 20, 2002 by Film Threat Staff
“Q” MUSIC PROGRAM SCORES
The Indie Film Composers created “Q” to hook up the music makers of film with unscored film footage…
Posted on May 20, 2002 by Film Threat Staff
TURKISH E.T. (Badi)
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Year Released: 1995 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 79 minutes |
Look what landed in Film Threat’s lap. Just in time for the 20th Anniversary re-release of “E.T.”, it’s the “Turkish E.T.” – a film that I’m sure has melted more brains than hearts since its creation…
Posted on May 20, 2002 by Eric Campos