AMAZING GRACE
While reviews of Maria Full of Grace have been almost unanimously positive, one wonders whether controversy will haunt Marston’s unusually sympathetic view of a heroin trafficker. Maria’s fiery persistence might be admirable, but those from the “just say no” camp will undoubtedly frown upon any portrait of a drug trafficker that veers from blatant, cut-and-dried [...]
Posted on July 28, 2004 by KJ Doughton
AMAZING GRACE
“The information on how drugs are prepared,” explains Marston, “is actually not that difficult to come by. I came across it through a number of ways. One was talking to imprisoned mules, to hear exactly what it was like, what it felt like – what they actually did. How they swallowed the pellets. “I also [...]
Posted on July 28, 2004 by KJ Doughton
AMAZING GRACE
DIRECTOR JOSHUA MARSTON AND ACTRESS CATALINA SANDINO MORENO ON “MARIA FULL OF GRACE”! There are no stylized nightclub shootouts or palatial, cocaine-smeared drug dens in Maria’s modest world. By depicting this culture with such understated strokes, Marston’s images are often uniquely disarming…
Posted on July 28, 2004 by KJ Doughton
EXCESS HOLLYWOOD: JEAN-CLAUDE VAN DAMME IS DEAD
Van Damme is dead. He died in Vegas when a stunt went wrong. Because of this, the world is a much better place. And I so wish that “Vegas” was a reality television show. I realized that a world without Van Damme would be much like a world without Hitler, Dahmer and Cheney…
Posted on July 28, 2004 by Doug Brunell
“BRAVE NEW YORK” AND “GODS OF TIMES SQUARE” SCREENINGS
Richard Sandler’s documentaries, The Gods of Times Square and Brave New York will screen at the Anthology Film Archives (32 SECOND AVENUE AT SECOND STREET) in NYC, August 4th. Any New Yorker who truly loves their city is urged to check these films out.
Posted on July 28, 2004 by Film Threat Staff
SUNDANCE ANNOUNCES FELLOWS FOR 2004 DOCUMENTARY COMPOSERS LAB
The Sundance Institute announced details for the second Sundance Institute Documentary Composers Lab. Five documentary filmmakers and six film music composers have been selected to participate in this year’s Lab, which is a collaboration between the Institute’s Documentary Film Program and its Film Music Program. Based on the success of the Feature Film Composers Lab, [...]
Posted on July 28, 2004 by Film Threat Staff
THE OFCS NAMES TOP 100 OVERLOOKED FILMS OF ’90S
The Online Film Critics Society (OFCS), the international association of the leading Internet-based cinema journalists, is showing its own love for the ’90s with its new list honoring its choices of the Top 100 Overlooked Films of the 1990s. At the top of the list, according a vote of the 137 film journalists of the [...]
Posted on July 28, 2004 by Film Threat Staff
FANTASIA MARCHES INTO ITS FINAL WEEK
Find out what the fest has in store for its final blow out week…
Posted on July 28, 2004 by Film Threat Staff
EXIT
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  Year Released: 2004 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 10 minutes |
Two criminals break down on a deserted country road and inadvertently begin to analyse their lives. In the isolation there is really little else to do aside from lighting an occasional exhaust sized doobie from their incredibly large stash. One of the duo is introverted with crazy undertones while the other in a loudmouth moron [...]
Posted on July 28, 2004 by Daniel Bernardi
BARN WARS
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  Year Released: 2004 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 4 minutes |
STAR WARS FAN FILM AWARDS 2004 REVIEW! The beginning, before the movie starts, includes some of the best Star Wars humor I have come across in these fan films…
Posted on July 28, 2004 by Rory L. Aronsky
BUBBA HO-TEP (DVD)
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  Year Released: 2003 MPAA Rating: R Running Time: 92 minutes |
Elderly Elvis and Black JFK versus a redneck soul-sucking mummy who collects said souls in a method that can be at best called unique and at worst called disgusting.
Posted on July 28, 2004 by Steve Anderson
MOVIE MARKETING MADNESS: “THE VILLAGE”
As moviemaking costs increase, the pressure to successfully market those movies becomes greater. In an attempt to show how marketers are trying to put the most hinders in the theater seats, Chris Thilk breaks down why some movie campaigns work and some don’t. This week, Chris picks apart the push for “The Village”…
Posted on July 27, 2004 by Chris Thilk
“THE MANSON FAMILY” TRAILER
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Posted on July 27, 2004 by Film Threat Staff
SOME SERIOUS TONGUE ACTION IN NEW YORK
Scooter McCrae’s “Sixteen Tongues” will screen at the Two Boots Pioneer Theatre in New York on August 2nd, 8pm. In the future, two very special people are hiding away in a very special place. Adrian Torque is a police officer who has lost more than half his skin to an explosion that should have killed [...]
Posted on July 27, 2004 by Film Threat Staff
STAR WARS FAN FILM AWARDS 2004 WINNERS
The 2004 Star Wars Fan Film Award nominees have been screened and George Lucas has picked the winner – Escape from Tatooine. The film’s director, David Tomaszewski, has won $2,000, a custom fan film awards trophy and the honor of knowing that George looked at his film and said, “Hey, that’s great.” Viewers at Atom [...]
Posted on July 27, 2004 by Film Threat Staff