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Written by Stuart Nachbar
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On October 1, I had the privilege to come
to Rutgers to see a screening of 18 in '08, a documentary produced
by David Burstein, a Haverford College freshman. The documentary's
purpose: to get out the youth (18 to 24 year-old) vote and tell
politicians how to make it happen.
Burstein and friends interviewed over 60
elected and former office-holders: Congressmen, Senators,
Governors, mayors, state legislations and Presidential candidates,
as well as activists, campus leaders, journalists and political
consultants — but thankfully, only one celebrity —
Richard Dreyfuss. If Burstein, et al. had to include a celebrity,
Dreyfuss was an excellent choice; in Mr. Holland's Opus, he played
a music teacher beloved by more than two generations of high school
students. |
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Read more... [18 In ?08 Gets My Vote]
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Written by Film Review
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Director Phil Roc returns whith a new cinematic piece for the new year. In the new film short called Avenue X, Mr. Roc crafts a New York City coming of age story that unique and original.
August and Max are normal teens: they dig cars, girls, and video games. They are also hearing impaired. AVENUE X follows August and Max as they scam money from a bodega owner to finance an adventurous, sometimes dangerous day trip, filled with sound, fury, and silence, to Coney Island for one unforgettable ride on the Cyclone roller coaster. Avenue X is currently showing online as part of their REEL13 film short series. Preview it and other films at: http://www.thirteen.org/reel13/films/vote-for-the-next-short/ Please take a moment to preview and vote for Avenue X and support a brilliant emergingg New York artist. |
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Written by Jon Caldwell
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Everyone loves to reminisce about the
"good old days:" the movies and shows we watched, the things we
did. We tell the younger generations about our all-time favorite TV
shows and films and scoff when they don't have a clue what we're
talking about. Wouldn't it be nice if you could play them a few
episodes of that old-time show or cherished movie? Now, with Rare
TV, you have the chance to! |
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Read more... [Reality Bites Of Television]
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Written by Dan Schneider
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Art that can claim greatness deals with complex issues in complex ways. If the answers or questions posed were simple they could be framed in a single sentence, or a ten second film. Then the art would not be its own best explanation. This thought stuck with me as I watched Krzystof Kieślowski's complex and fascinating, if flawed, The Decalogue, illuminating aspects of the Ten Commandments from the third, transitional phase of his career, which included this 1988-89 Polish television series, filmed in 1987 and 1988, as well as the two subsequent feature films derived from episodes five and six, A Short Film About Killing and A Short Film About Love. Kieślowski's filmic career can be divided into four parts. The first was his career as a documentarian, the second was his early fictive films, and the fourth and final part was his final films- The Double Life Of Veronique and the Three Colors Trilogy (Blue, White, Red). The Decalogue (Dekalog), released on three DVDs by Facets Video, after a decade and a half in the wilderness, is where Kieślowski's potential for greatness first had more than a few flickering moments. No, unlike many critics who declare the whole series a masterpiece, I'll say it's certainly it's not. It has a few excellent to great episodes, a few good solid ones, and some mediocre ones, but without this proving ground, his later masterpieces would not have been possible. |
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Written by Dan Schneider
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Werner Herzog is an artist out of his time….and that's a very good thing for lovers of great films. His own great 1979 film Nosferatu, Phantom Of The Night (Nosferatu, Phantom Der Nacht), which was released in America as Nosferatu, The Vampire, is less a classic vampire film and more a Post-Apocalyptic tale, having more in common (especially image-wise) with films like On The Beach, The Quiet Earth, the Vincent Price classic The Last Man On Earth (based on Richard Matheson's I Am Legend), and even the first Night Of The Living Dead, than with the Hollywood Dracula mythos, and even its silent filmic predecessor, Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau's 1922 classic Nosferatu, A Symphony of Horrors (Nosferatu, Eine Symphonie Des Grauens), because Herzog is a filmmaker not afraid to turn his camera eye on ugliness, and use that as a way to limn reality better and more clearly in his search for his own 'ecstatic truth.' Herzog has always specialized in eye level realism, wherein he generally eschews those glossy gorgeous postcard-like shots that many filmmakers often substitute for depth, and this results in his ability to push his stories forward without relying on obvious techniques, substituting elements that hit at a viewer's instinctual reactions rather than merely the intellectual. This comes from his great screenplays, such as this one, which are usually his own creations; albeit with a little help from the novel he adapted it from, Bram Stoker's Dracula.
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Read more... [Review Of Nosferatu, Phantom Of The Night]
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Written by Dan Schneider
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DVD Review Of Nosferatu, Phantom Of The Night
Werner Herzog is an artist out of his time….and
that's a very good thing for lovers of great films. His own great
1979 film Nosferatu, Phantom Of The Night (Nosferatu, Phantom Der
Nacht), which was released in America as Nosferatu, The Vampire, is
less a classic vampire film and more a Post-Apocalyptic tale,
having more in common (especially image-wise) with films like On
The Beach, The Quiet Earth, the Vincent Price classic The Last Man
On Earth (based on Richard Matheson's I Am Legend), and even the
first Night Of The Living Dead, than with the Hollywood Dracula
mythos, and even its silent filmic predecessor, Friedrich Wilhelm
Murnau's 1922 classic Nosferatu, A Symphony of Horrors (Nosferatu,
Eine Symphonie Des Grauens), because Herzog is a filmmaker not
afraid to turn his camera eye on ugliness, and use that as a way to
limn reality better and more clearly in his search for his own
'ecstatic truth.' Herzog has always specialized in eye level
realism, wherein he generally eschews those glossy gorgeous
postcard-like shots that many filmmakers often substitute for
depth, and this results in his ability to push his stories forward
without relying on obvious techniques, substituting elements that
hit at a viewer's instinctual reactions rather than merely the
intellectual. This comes from his great screenplays, such as this
one, which are usually his own creations; albeit with a little help
from the novel he adapted it from, Bram Stoker's Dracula. |
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Read more... [Nosferatu, Phantom Of The Night]
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Written by Dan Schneider
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One of the greatest pieces of charlatanry in Orson Welles'
brilliant pseudo-documentary F For Fake, released in 1974, is the
idea that Welles' lover and one time sculptress, Oja Kodar
(née Olga Palinkas), had any real hand in crafting the film;
specifically in writing it alongside Welles. Don't get me wrong; I
have nothing against the woman nor the claim, for the claim is in
keeping with the whole tenor of the film, and when she was young,
well, the lovely Ms. Kodar looked positively ferocious in a bikini.
But if her film commentary is to be a standard for judging her
intellect and artistic merit, well, bravo Ms. Kodar for pushing the
film's use of deceit even further. After all, Welles has been dead
for well over two decades, so he can no more debunk your insipid
claims than, say, journeyman filmmaker Carol Reed can deny the
manifest: that it was Welles, not himself- as a mere beard for the
blacklisted Welles, who directed Welles' brilliant film, The Third
Man, back in 1949. |
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Read more... [Review Of F For Fake]
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Written by Al Terry
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Hot Tips For Purchasing New York Broadway Tickets by Al Terry
New York Broadway tickets are painless to find for a lot of productions at genuine bargain prices. It is a challenge to get Broadway tickets to the most popular current hit Broadway shows because these productions are of enormous level and charge unimaginable amounts to make, featuring the most renowned drama people or actors, as well as theater junkies in the world. Broadway tickets are sold through diverse channels at amazing discounts, and can be had at up to half off occasionally. The 39 venues that make up the main Theatre District of Broadway are in Manhattan. |
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Written by David M. Bresnahan
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New Romantic Comedy Film 'Crossing Borders' May Bring Middle East Peace by David M. Bresnahan
Pre-production interest is high in the Lou Di Giorgio film "Crossing Borders," not only for its potential as an entertaining romantic comedy, but also because many see it as the right message at the right time to inspire peace in the Middle East.
"The entire world, not just the 'Western World,' is ready for a peaceful resolution to the conflicts in the Middle East," said Di Giorgio, producer of the film.
"It is a film which should help calm down, and bring a more positive attitude toward Muslim and Jewish cultures, and finally some hope. But, more deeply, it points out the failure of the U.S. government and the incapacity of the U.N. to solve the problem. Any solution will have to come from 'ordinary' people, as history show us in places like India, Portugal, and others. Otherwise we may face what the Bible said in the Apocalypse: from Jerusalem only stones will be left," said Di Giorgio.
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Read more... [Crossing Borders]
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Written by jay christopher greene
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The new Wendy Williams film project, entitled "Queen Of Media", ends its nine city casting call tour and has found the finalist to play Wendy and other major characters in the film. Nine (9) cities were visited; hundreds of people auditioned and over sixty (60) people were selected for main character call backs, small roles and identified as cast members for the new Wendy Williams film project entitled “Queen Of Media.”
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Read more... [The Queen Of Media]
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Written by mingus006
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On the eve of the one-year anniversary of what is the worst natural disaster in U.S. history, the provocative new documentary The Unmasking of New Orleans, produced by Final Call Incorporated (FCI) Broadcasting was released.
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Read more... [The Unmasking New Orleans]
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Written by Adrian Bertino-clarke
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PartyCp8 is a new breed of film school in which the enrolled students work on a series of short films as warm up exercises leading to an actual feature film production that will be released commercially early in 2007. Situated in the Australian Technology Park in Redfern, students come together on a weekly basis to make their filmmaking dreams come true. The mentoring program allows students to get Hollywood and Australian industry professionals as coaches. The Hollywood constituent is organized by UCLA, one of the world’s leading tertiary institutions, from the heart of Hollywood.
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Read more... [Students Produce 25 Films in 9 Weeks]
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