by Todd Brown, March 13, 2010 10:00 PM
[With Canadian documentary Reel Injun having its US premiere at SXSW 2010 we now re-post the review we initially ran at the world premiere in Toronto.]Neil Diamond's Reel Injun accomplishes one truly remarkable feat. The documentarian, himself a native from...
by Todd Brown, March 13, 2010 7:00 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, March 13, 2010 4:00 PM
[With Lixin Fan's Last Train Home screening as part of SXSW we now re-post the review we ran at the Sundance premiere.]Holidays: a time for family. As true as this may be in Western culture with Thanksgiving and Christmas...
by Todd Brown, March 12, 2010 10:00 PM
[With the new White Stripes documentary having its US premiere at SXSW we now re-post our review of the film from its debut in Toronto.]In 2007, to celebrate their tenth anniversary as a band, Jack and Meg White packed...
by Todd Brown, March 10, 2010 12:54 AM
This is officially one of the best things ever and yet another in a long list of examples of why I have an intense jealousy for the Spanish. You see, they get to rub shoulders with the likes of...
by Michael Guillen, March 9, 2010 10:29 PM
Before finding words to describe my pleasure in viewing my first Lino Brocka film You Have Been Weighed and Found Wanting (1974), I'd like to render a few comments on the San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival (SFIAAFF)...
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by Michael Guillen, March 5, 2010 1:35 PM
[Our thanks to Michael Hawley for contributing his preview to the Twitch readership.] Of the five documentaries I previewed on DVD screener for this year's San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival (SFIAAFF), my favorite is one doc-purists might...
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by Michael Guillen, March 2, 2010 2:43 PM
"I've got a lot of patience, baby / but, that's a lot of patience to lose."--Laura Nyro In his aptly-entitled essay-interview with James Benning for Artforum International--"Testing Your Patience"--Scott MacDonald emphasizes how Benning's films "confront the hysterical consumption modeled...
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by Al Young, February 27, 2010 4:27 PM
Unless you've been living in a cave, you probably have already seen or heard about Thomas Bruso (aka Epic Beard Man, Tom Slick, Vietnam Tom), a 67 year old man who suddenly rose to Internet fame last week when a...
by Stefan, February 26, 2010 10:47 AM
A Singapore documentary film is coming our way very soon, which explores the history and legends behind one of Singapore's infamous locations. Mention the name Old Changi Hospital here and you'll easily get a plethora of supernatural tales. The site's...
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