In a Galaxy Far, Far Away…
As I start writing this, I’ve just ejected from my VCR the 349th entry for this year’s Revelation Perth International…
Film Festivals
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Q/A: Terrence Howard
There was one good thing about Malcolm Lee’s 1999 studio film The Best Man: Terrence Howard. I wrote a review…
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Good Lord, Not Another Artsy Film
I am Marc Vogl, a 30-something East Coast kid who came out to San Francisco in the 90s following a…
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Behind the Spin
There is a mystique to filmmaking—the silvery light that reflects off the screen, the way the story shapes a character’s…
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LA Film with a View
In New York, a rooftop is not merely a rooftop. Part refuge, part observation deck, the roof is where New…
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The Women of Sundance
Flipping through the catalog of this year’s Sundance Film Festival, the faces of American narrative filmmakers are unsurprisingly still predominantly…
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The Indie Godmother
While covering the 2003 St. Louis Filmmakers Showcase, where one of my films was showing, Joe Williams, film critic of…
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Chlotrudis
Several couples chat casually, surrounded mostly by empty red velvet seats inside Brookline, Massachusetts’s Coolidge Corner Theatre in early November….
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The State of Short Films
Cinema was born as a short form. Most early films were mere seconds long. Throughout the history of celluloid, countless…