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VIEWING ZEITGEISTS AND THE BEST U.S. INDIES OF THE DECADE
By Jason Sanders
To try to recall your favorite films from an entire decade (and then to limit them to only ten titles) is to immediately set yourself up for uncertainty and ridicule: first off because it's hard enough to remember what you saw ten days ago, much less ten years ago, and secondly because to limit [continue]
IT WAS THE AUGHTS, AND I WENT TO THE MOVIES
By Brandon Harris
It was the aughts, and I went to (and made a few) movies. I did it mostly for pleasure, sometimes for distraction, often to see what others thought of the wild world around us; by the end, I did it simply because it was the only way I saw fit to make a living (sort of). It was a bell curve of [continue]
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LEE CHUNG-RYOUL, OLD PARTNER
Damon Smith
Topping the Korean box office is no small feat for a first-time filmmaker, given the perennial offerings of sassy romantic comedies and vivid, attention-grabbing genre flicks from this nation’s impressive stable of film artists. It’s even more improbable when you’ve made a no-frills [continue]
CORNELIU PORUMBOIU, POLICE ADJECTIVE
Brandon Harris
Cornelieu Porumboiu’s absurd anti-policier Police, Adjective, a hit at last fall's New York Film Festival, has pushed the Romanian director into the forefront of a young group of Romanian filmmakers who have in the past four years taken the world of International Art Cinema by storm. Along with [continue]
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ISN'T SHE?...
Jamie Stuart uses the latest edition of Apple's Final Cut Studio to create the short Isn't She?..., an ode to John Hughes that follows a day in the life of Claire (Lauren Currie Lewis) as she tries to claim unemployment insurance.
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HAWAII INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
By Jason Sanders
The 29th edition of the Hawaii International Film Festival (Oct. 15-25) kicked off with its usual blend of sun-kissed island charm and formal glamour; a sunset opening party at the historic Royal Hawaiian Hotel, steps from the beaches of Waikiki, seemed like some stage-managed idea of what “the [continue]
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