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Monthly Archives: January 2005
By Elias Savada | January 2005
IN THEATERS! The unintentional laughter started early…
As January lumbers to a wintry close—here in the Mid-Atlantic and further north to Canada at least—filmgoers hoping to find a hot new film at their...
In a quiet working-class town on Maryland’s coast, a young girl’s innocence may forever be shattered as she confronts the realities of adult weakness...
A profoundly unnecessary movie, “The Girl From Monday” is an embarrassment for indie stalwart Hal Hartley. The brainy writer-director who patented a...
Picture an episode of “The E! True Hollywood Story” directed by David Lynch, subtract anything interesting, and you’ve arrived at “American Fame...
A charming slice-of-life piece about a low-rent radio station in Alice Springs, Australia, “Green Bush” is more effective at defining a fictional world...
There are two things I’m pretty sure I don’t want to know much about: the moment of my own conception and the precise moment of my death. Nevertheless,...
Though it’s not horrible as far as it goes, “Un Dia en la Vida” is not really a story at all. It’s the beginning of one. It’s about Rosalia,...
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...
Twentieth Century-Fox, in an effort to bolster its lackluster slice of the 2005 box office pie (Elektra having failed to ignite anyone with its mid-January...
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...