TO LOVE OR TO DIE
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  Year Released: 2003 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 5 minutes |
Once again, Scott Stark has assembled simple elements to make a complex, profound film with a surprisingly strong emotional impact…
Posted on February 27, 2007 by David Finkelstein
NOS STARS/ LE PETIT DIEU (DVD)
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  Year Released: 2006 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 43 minutes |
Unfortunately, these two recent films are not particularly interesting to look at or to listen to…
Posted on February 27, 2007 by David Finkelstein
CINEMA DIFFERENT VOLUME II (DVD)
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Year Released: 2006 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 90 minutes |
This DVD is a follow up to Lowave’s first collection of experimental films curated by the Collectif Jeune Cinema…
Posted on February 27, 2007 by David Finkelstein
LURK
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Year Released: 2006 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 2 minutes |
This brief, silent collage film presents images of seduction, rape, and implied violence…
Posted on February 27, 2007 by David Finkelstein
REVERIES FROM CISTAE MEMORIA
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  Year Released: 2005 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 10 minutes |
The film itself is a fluid, beautifully rendered collage of animated antique boxes, which open up to show scenes of long past domesticity…
Posted on February 27, 2007 by David Finkelstein
THE SAVIOUR
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  Year Released: 2005 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 17 minutes |
An enjoyable off-beat short film with brilliantly subdued performances along with excellent use of its basic few locations make for a pleasantly disturbing film…
Posted on February 27, 2007 by Daniel Bernardi
49TH PARALLEL (DVD)
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  Year Released: 2007 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 123 minutes |
Incredibly, the film’s original story won an Academy Award. Today, it will generate more grimaces and groans than trophies. ..
Posted on February 27, 2007 by Phil Hall
WHERE THE HEART ROAMS (DVD)
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Year Released: 1987 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 81 minutes |
Like Stephen King or Bukowski fans, these women are devoted, they’re consistent, and they admire these authors…
Posted on February 27, 2007 by Felix Vasquez Jr.
MY OSCAR WRAP UP…
It’s been called “The Gay Super Bowl” and with all the emphasis on fashion, that’s probably accurate. But actually watching the Oscars must only be for old school film freaks like me, or those who enjoy torture. Yeah, I mean, when they are clapping for performances of “shadow puppets,” we have really lowered the bar [...]
Posted on February 26, 2007 by Chris Gore
2007 INDEPENDENT SPIRIT AWARD WINNERS
The 2007 Spirit Awards are over, and the winners are no doubt recovering after getting drunk on the beach in Santa Monica. So who are those winners? Read on…
Posted on February 26, 2007 by Mark Bell
BEWARE THE AFTER DARK TRIBE
“The Tribe,” the action/horror debut by filmmakers Jorg Ihle (writer/director) and Mo Ramchandani (writer/producer), has been picked up for wide theatrical North American distribution by Courtney Solomon (partner) and Stephanie Caleb (EVP of Acquisitions and Creative Affairs) of After Dark Films. Co-written by Jorg Ihle and producer Mo Ramchandani, “The Tribe” focuses on a group [...]
Posted on February 26, 2007 by Film Threat Staff
SIDEWALK ASSEMBLES NEW TEAM
They’re rolling out the red carpet for a new leadership team at Birmingham’s premiere film fest. The board of directors of the Alabama Moving Image Association, Inc. (AMIA) unveiled their new staff at the February 5 Sidewalk Salon…
Posted on February 26, 2007 by Film Threat Staff
JIGOKU (HELL, A.K.A. THE SINNERS OF HELL): CRITERION COLLECTION (DVD)
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Year Released: 2007 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 101 minutes |
While the prevalence of realistic (though fairly surreal) settings may disappoint some, these portions of “Jigoku” play like a loosely plotted B-grade noir…
Posted on February 26, 2007 by Matthew Sorrento
INFAMOUS (DVD)
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Year Released: 2006 MPAA Rating: R Running Time: 118 minutes |
There’s a particular shot that I like a lot at the beginning of “Infamous” that, brief as it is and insignificant as it may seem, defines the film through and through…
Posted on February 26, 2007 by Rory L. Aronsky
MONSTER CAMP
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Year Released: 2006 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 87 minutes |
One of the many documentaries taking off from the “Trekkies” and “Ringers” formula, in which we spend a time in the lives of folks who just love their hobby ad fanaticism, and Hoback pays them the proper respect for it…
Posted on February 26, 2007 by Felix Vasquez Jr.