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Movie Reviews: Short Films at Aspen Shortsfest 2010
April 6th –As ground blizzards raged around the mostly packed Wheeler Opera House in Aspen, Colorado, Laura Thielen, More …
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Short Films at Aspen Shortsfest-Rites of Passage to Poseurs
From black-and-white dramas set in hot Connecticut summers to rites of passage in which kids know too much, More …
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RIP Howard Zinn, Wake Up Progressives
Howard Zinn believed in our ability to change the world through acting, speaking and writing. Zinn encouraged us More …
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Polanski Wins Silver Bear at Berlin
A jury of Roman Polanskis peers, led by director Werner Herzog, honored him for the film. But can More …
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Polanski’s “The Ghost Writer” premieres at Berlin Film Festival
Anticipated at the Berlin International Film Festival was the premiere of The Ghost Writer, Roman Polanskis adaptation of More …
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Review: Scorsese’s ‘Shutter Island’ premieres at Berlin International Film Festival
There are plenty of themes in this year at the Berlin International Film Festival, the 60th anniversary of More …
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Interview with Retrepo’s Sebastian Junger
The top documentary prize at Sundance this January went to Restrepo, the film by writer Sebastian Junger and More …
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Native American and World Cinema Films at Sundance
Tungijuq (above), directed by Félix Lajeunesse, Paul Raphaël is in the short film competition at the Sundance Film More …
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Movie Review: Freetime Machos
In Invictus (2009), Clint Eastwood looked at two simultaneous phenomena – the release from prison and rise to More …
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Ellen Kuras Wins Cinematography Honor at Santa Fe Film Fest
In The Summer of Sam, Ellen Kuras took us back to the look and feel of the sweaty More …
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Movie Reviews: “Lebanon” and more at the Haifa Film Festival 2009
A major event at Haifa had nothing to do with the festivals competitions. It was the screening of More …
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Movie Review: In the Loop
As Donald Rumsfeld liked to say, “There are known unknowns, and unknown unknowns.” Apply that to the secret More …
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