ON_LINE
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  Year Released: 2002 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 86 minutes |
SCREENING AT THE PIONEER THEATER IN NEW YORK CITY, JANUARY 10TH! “On_Line” takes the conventional New Yawk romantic comedy and blasts it through cyberspace. Jed Weintrob’s DV feature is sweet-natured at its core but also frothingly sexual, slathered with filthy talk and porny visuals…
Posted on January 10, 2005 by Tim Merrill
ZOOEY
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  Year Released: 2004 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 90 minutes |
Shot in just two weeks on a budget of $20,000, “Zooey” is a grim and gritty urban tale that somehow manages to radiate a touching hope in humanity even under the most dire, even tragic circumstances…
Posted on December 6, 2004 by Tim Merrill
GUERRILLA: THE TAKING OF PATTY HEARST
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  Year Released: 2003 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 89 minutes |
IN LIMITED RELEASE! Any student of recent U.S. history must be familiar with the incredible-but-true story of Patty Hearst’s abduction by the Symbionese Liberation Army, a radical militant fringe group. “Guerrilla” is a riveting account of this demented and scarcely believable American story…
Posted on November 28, 2004 by Tim Merrill
THE CONTROL ROOM
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Year Released: 2003 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 83 minutes |
SEE IT BEFORE YOU VOTE! In the end, the greatest achievement of “Control Room” may be to simply remind us, as Americans, that in this age of mega-corporate U.S. news media there are other perspectives on world events besides those of Fox, CNN, MSNBC-ABCBS and whoever else feeds us our information…
Posted on October 27, 2004 by Tim Merrill
GO FURTHER
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Year Released: 2003 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 100 minutes |
IN THEATERS! You might have read about the event Mann chronicles in “Go Further”: a 2001 bus tour, from Seattle down to Los Angeles, with Harrelson and a band of like-minded folks along for the ride, spreading their message of “simple organic living…”
Posted on October 10, 2004 by Tim Merrill
DIG!
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Year Released: 2003 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 110 minutes |
IN LIMITED RELEASE! The smashing new rockumentary “DIG!” tells the fascinating, horrifying and hilarious tale of two ’60s obsessed young American bands, the Dandy Warhols and the Brian Jonestown Massacre…
Posted on October 1, 2004 by Tim Merrill
TOM DOWD & THE LANGUAGE OF MUSIC
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  Year Released: 2003 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 82 minutes |
PLAYING IN LOS ANGELES! In an era when most pop and rock music – not to mention the dreaded “modern R&B” genre – has been polished, processed and overproduced into irrelevance, it’s hard to imagine that a man like Dowd could leave such a monumental legacy by, if anything, underproducing his acts…
Posted on August 13, 2004 by Tim Merrill
GARDEN STATE
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  Year Released: 2003 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 112 minutes |
IN THEATERS! The chemistry between Braff and Portman and their characters goes a long way, saving the film when it takes a few too many bizarre plot/location turns and overplays its dramatic hand towards the finish…
Posted on August 2, 2004 by Tim Merrill
METALLICA: SOME KIND OF MONSTER
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Year Released: 2003 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 127 minutes |
IN LIMITED RELEASE! Metallica had boiled hard rock down to its essence, sent ’80s poodle-hair metal packing, soldiered on while Guns N’ Roses imploded, and blazed a trail for the introspective, intelligent skull-thumping of Nirvana and the Seattle grunge brigade.
But by the late ’90s, the inevitable decline had begun…
Posted on July 9, 2004 by Tim Merrill
FAHRENHEIT 9/11
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Year Released: 2004 MPAA Rating: R Running Time: 116 minutes |
IN THEATERS! “Fahrenheit 9/11” is everything you’ve heard: sad and funny, revealing and compelling, entertaining, devastating. For those who believe our country has been in deep trouble since the 2000 (S)election, the film will be – in the words of Neil Young, whose “Rockin’ in the Free World” plays over the end credits – a “milepost on the road back to America…”
Posted on June 24, 2004 by Tim Merrill
I’LL SLEEP WHEN I’M DEAD
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  Year Released: 2003 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 102 minutes |
Now Hodges and Owen have reunited, and the ungainly “I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead” is the result. How ungainly? Well, any film whose plot takes off from an act of anal rape is likely to be…a tough sit…
Posted on June 18, 2004 by Tim Merrill
TOGBE
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Year Released: 2001 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 75 minutes |
“Togbe” is a fast-paced and fascinating portrait of one man, a funny sort of man at that…
Posted on April 9, 2004 by Tim Merrill
DON’T STOP BELIEVING: “TRIBUTE” FILMMAKERS
PREMIERING ON SHOWTIME, APRIL 5TH, 9PM! “Tribute” introduces us to people so desperate to live out their rock n’ roll dreams, they’ll pretend to be someone else. Meet the filmmakers behind this riotously funny rockumentary…
Posted on April 2, 2004 by Tim Merrill
WALKENTALK
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Year Released: 2003 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 10 minutes |
SXSW 2004 NARRATIVE SHORT SELECTION! Who among us hasn’t tried to solve the eternal mystery of what it is, exactly, about how Christopher Walken…talks? It has something to do with obliterating all punctuation, putting in pauses and inflections where no one else would, and redirecting intonation at the end of every sentence…or something…
Posted on March 20, 2004 by Tim Merrill
HOW TO DRAW A BUNNY
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Year Released: 2002 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 90 minutes |
OPENING MARCH 12TH AT THE SUNSET 5 IN LOS ANGELES! Ray Johnson was a mystery wrapped in an enigma who lived his life like a Pop Art performance piece. His final masterpiece may well have been his own death…
Posted on March 9, 2004 by Tim Merrill