by Todd Brown, February 6, 2010 9:04 PM
Of the documentary selections for the 2010 SXSW Film Festival one of the most immediately intriguing is Alexandre Philippe's The People Vs George Lucas. A look into the world of the man who created Star Wars and the people...
by Michael Guillen, February 5, 2010 7:43 PM
It seems like you can't go to a film festival anywhere these days without national cinemas ending up in some kind of political stand-off. Whether or not one believes that a film festival is the proper venue to broker...
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by Todd Brown, February 4, 2010 4:10 PM
Meet Mark Hogancamp. In April of 2000, Mark was attacked outside a bar in New York State and literally beaten to death by a group of five men. Though Mark would be revived by paramedics he would spend nine...
by Todd Brown, February 4, 2010 12:38 PM
This one's pretty self explanatory, really, the only really surprising here being that it's taken this long for someone to make a documentary about passionate love-hate relationship thousands upon thousands of loyal Star Wars fans have with George Lucas....
by Todd Brown, February 3, 2010 5:38 PM
Given how pricey this is to import my guess is that only the most fanatical of Thee Michelle Gun Elephant fans will jump on the upcoming Japanese DVD and BluRay release of concert film Last Heaven 031011 but given...
by Michael Guillen, February 3, 2010 2:15 PM
[Our thanks to Michael Hawley for offering his preview of SF IndieFest 2010 to the Twitch readership.] The 12th edition of the San Francisco Independent Film Festival--better known as SF IndieFest--takes over the Roxie Theater for two weeks starting...
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by Eight Rooks, February 3, 2010 10:26 AM
(Note: this is not a film that screened at Rotterdam this year, but given the festival helped release it seven years ago and publish what is currently the only DVD available with English subtitles, IFFR 2010 seemed a good...
by Michael Guillen, February 2, 2010 3:35 PM
Fortuity provides an intriguing thematic segue. Brushing up on my Val Lewton research in anticipation of PFA's Complicated Shadows series, I came across a brief mention at The Val Lewton Screenplay Collection--a fantastic resource for Lewton fans--that, allegedly, Val...
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by Todd Brown, February 1, 2010 1:32 AM
[Our thanks to Ryland Aldrich for the following review.]This year's Sundance Spotlight Surprise slot was filled by the documentary Exit Through The Gift Shop, directed by the enigmatic artist Banksy. The film is a documentation of the rise and...
by Todd Brown, January 29, 2010 7:04 PM
Though I discovered the music of Boston trio Morphine relatively late - shortly after the release of what would prove to be their final album, back in the days when 'alternative rock' could still mean something other than loud...
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