NINE LIVES
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  Year Released: 2004 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 127 minutes |
SUNDANCE PREMIERE 2005 REVIEW! Written and directed by Rodrigo Garcia (“Things You Can Tell Just By Looking at Her”), “Nine Lives” is no stunt…
Posted on January 30, 2005 by Bob Westal
THIS REVOLUTION
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  Year Released: 2004 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 90 minutes |
SUNDANCE AMERICAN SPECTRUM 2005 REVIEW! The protagonist of “This Revolution” is Jake, a cameraman for fictional TV network BCN. He’s a hot-blooded, socially conscious guy with a chip on his shoulder because the network suppressed footage he taped of civilian casualties in Iraq…
Posted on January 30, 2005 by Peter Hanson
HIDE AND SEEK
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Year Released: 2005 MPAA Rating: R Running Time: 105 minutes |
IN THEATERS! They’ll need another game other than “Hide and Seek” to make it worth playing at the neighborhood multiplex…
Posted on January 29, 2005 by Elias Savada
ALONE IN THE DARK
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  Year Released: 2005 MPAA Rating: R Running Time: 96 minutes |
IN THEATERS! The unintentional laughter started early…
Posted on January 29, 2005 by Elias Savada
A THOUSAND ROADS
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  Year Released: 2004 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 40 minutes |
SUNDANCE SPECIAL SCREENING 2005 REVIEW! Details such as this one elevate “A Thousand Roads” past its role as a museum showpiece and identify the film as personal expression that just happens to unfold on a grand scale…
Posted on January 29, 2005 by Peter Hanson
LET THE GOOD TIMES ROLL
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  Year Released: 2004 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 15 minutes |
SUNDANCE SHORT 2005 REVIEW! Stories filled with drugs, enemas and…drug enemas…
Posted on January 29, 2005 by Eric Campos
IT’S LIKE THAT
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Year Released: 2003 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 7 minutes |
SUNDANCE SHORT 2005 REVIEW! The film mixes exquisite three-dimensional puppet animation with more experimental hand-drawn depictions…
Posted on January 29, 2005 by Bob Westal
GREEN BUSH
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Year Released: 2004 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 27 minutes |
SUNDANCE SHORT 2005 REVIEW! While many of the players are nonactors whose remarkable faces imbue wordless roles with credibility, the picture ultimately succeeds because of Page’s winning performance…
Posted on January 29, 2005 by Peter Hanson
AMERICAN FAME PT. 2: FORGETTING JONATHAN BRANDIS
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Year Released: 2004 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 15 minutes |
SUNDANCE SHORT 2005 REVIEW! Sure, it gets a little creepy after a while to watch faceless figures fidget around in crunchy black-and-white as ominous music drones, but Archer’s devices for creating this disquiet are borrowed from a host of filmmakers with more to say…
Posted on January 29, 2005 by Peter Hanson
THE 3 ROOMS OF MELANCHOLIA
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Year Released: 2004 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 106 minutes |
SUNDANCE WORLD DOCUMENTARY COMPETITION 2005 REVIEW! Nothing is sadder than a child who has experienced tragedy, but no trap is easier to fall into than that of dwelling on a moping kid until the image loses its meaning…
Posted on January 29, 2005 by Jeremy Mathews
THE SAILOR’S GIRL
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Year Released: 2004 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 14 minutes |
SUNDANCE SHORT 2005 REVIEW! It might have all come together, but the violent conclusion is poorly motivated and not especially shocking or pithy…
Posted on January 29, 2005 by Bob Westal
ONE WEEKEND A MONTH
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Year Released: 2004 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 11 minutes |
SUNDANCE SHORT 2005 REVIEW! In all the talk about the casualties of the ongoing war in Iraq, we don’t hear too much discussion of the disruption that the U.S. occupation creates for families of those sent overseas…
Posted on January 29, 2005 by Bob Westal
KARE KARE ZVAKO – MOTHER’S DAY
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  Year Released: 2004 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 30 minutes |
SUNDANCE SHORT 2005 REVIEW! It’s hard being a mom to three hungry kids in drought-stricken bush country, especially when Dad is a selfish, good-for-nothing layabout…
Posted on January 29, 2005 by Bob Westal
UN DIA EN LA VIDA
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  Year Released: 2004 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 10 minutes |
SUNDANCE SHORT 2005 REVIEW! There’s nothing wrong with conclusions that leave some questions unanswered, but to simply leave things as you start them is unacceptable…
Posted on January 29, 2005 by Bob Westal
THE GIRL FROM MONDAY
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Year Released: 2004 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 84 minutes |
SUNDANCE PREMIERE 2005 REVIEW! A profoundly unnecessary movie, “The Girl From Monday” is an embarrassment for indie stalwart Hal Hartley…
Posted on January 29, 2005 by Peter Hanson