LIVE BAIT
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  Year Released: 2003 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 7 minutes |
SLAMDANCE 2004 SHORT FILM SELECTION! The fisherman in Sarah Brown’s stop-motion/claymation short “Live Bait” knows all too well what happens when one doesn’t have anything to eat for a long stretch of time…
Posted on January 31, 2004 by Stina Chyn
EASTER
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  Year Released: 2002 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 92 minutes |
The story is touching at times, but it never goes the full distance. That’s a shame, too, because these are characters that, as annoying as they can be, deserve to be more fully realized…
Posted on January 31, 2004 by Doug Brunell
HENRY FOOL (DVD)
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  Year Released: 2003 MPAA Rating: R Running Time: 127 minutes |
So while this film is a four-star effort, I have to knock half a star off because Sony doesn’t take advantage of all that DVD has to offer when it comes to Hal Hartley…
Posted on January 31, 2004 by Brad Cook
IRENE’S LAST CALL
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Year Released: 2003 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 47 minutes |
Nothing lasts forever and as the documentary reveals, Irene knows when to call it day…
Posted on January 31, 2004 by Stina Chyn
BIG CITY DICK
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Year Released: 2003 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 127 minutes |
SLAMDANCE 2004 DOCUMENTARY FEATURE! How can a film about someone’s life be so somber yet so uplifting?
Posted on January 31, 2004 by Stina Chyn
THE BEST THIEF IN THE WORLD
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Year Released: 2003 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 90 minutes |
SUNDANCE 2004 DRAMATIC COMPETITION SELECTION! Occasionally the movie offers a poignant moment and a dramatic scene here and there, but this is a largely unfulfilling affair…
Posted on January 31, 2004 by Brad Slager
FERNANDO MEIRELLES: CITY ON FIRE
“City of God” is your first feature film, but you did other shorts. What was it like making your first feature? Actually, “City of God” is my second feature. I did a small independent feature three years ago as a rehearsal and was already working on the script for “City of God” and decided to [...]
Posted on January 30, 2004 by Chris Gore
FERNANDO MEIRELLES: CITY ON FIRE
BEST DIRECTOR NOMINEE FOR “CITY OF GOD”! Fast, furious and ultra-violent, “City of God,” Fernando Meirelles’ tale of two boys growing up in a seedy neighborhood in Rio de Janeiro, is said to have the same gritty feel of “Amores Perros” and even “Goodfellas.” We got a chance to talk to director Meirelles about his film…
Posted on January 30, 2004 by Chris Gore
THE BOOTLEG FILES: “THE IMMORTAL STORY”
Orson Welles is considered by many to be the greatest filmmaker of all time. Yet during his lifetime, Welles continually struggled to finance his productions. As a result, many of his films remained unfinished and the relatively few that he completed frequently wound up in legal limbo due to disputes of ownership stemming from the [...]
Posted on January 30, 2004 by Phil Hall
THE BOOTLEG FILES: “THE IMMORTAL STORY”
Phil Hall’s The Bootleg Files explores the funky world of rare, classic and hard-to-find films which can only be obtained via bootleg video channels. This week,
Posted on January 30, 2004 by Phil Hall
A “BLIND SHAFT” IN NEW YORK
Li Yang’s Hitchcock-like thriller “Blind Shaft” will screen at New York’s Film Forum, February 4-17. “Blind Shaft” has won several festival awards and recently screened at AFI in Los Angeles.
Posted on January 30, 2004 by Film Threat Staff
BOSTON CALLS DANCE REJECTS
IFFB is offering rejected Sundance or Slamdance filmmakers $5 off the Independent Film Festival of Boston entry fee for all entries postmarked by January 31, 2004…
Posted on January 30, 2004 by Film Threat Staff
MODEL PRISONER
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Year Released: 2003 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 8 minutes |
SLAMDANCE 2004 SHORT FILM SELECTION! We grow up believing that we should only judge others based on their actions and what’s inside of them. Katherin McInnis literally shows Joseph Jernigan’s insides in her short film “Model Prisoner,” and he isn’t so different from the rest of us…
Posted on January 30, 2004 by Stina Chyn
KANADIANA
This sounds like just about every other crime movie and the plot of any sitcom that does a special two-hour “let’s take a vacation overseas” episode. Where this films gets its strength, however, is in the characters and its abrupt surprise ending…
Posted on January 30, 2004 by Doug Brunell
THE STATEMENT
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Year Released: 2003 MPAA Rating: R Running Time: 100 minutes |
There are a lot of issues that are only hinted at but never followed through on, and while I’m sure this is how things work in real life… it would be nice if we actually got a few loose ends tied up rather than having a lot of things left unresolved…
Posted on January 30, 2004 by Peter Lowry