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America Unchained (Wednesday, 04/23/08 - 7:00 pm) Embarking on a cross-country road trip in a battered ’70 Ford Torino station wagon, he challenges himself to make the journey without giving any money to The Man, buying gas, food, and lodging only from independent businesses. And if that sounds easy, think again. No Starbucks, no Exxon or Mobil, no La Quinta or Holiday Inn, no Denny’s, McDonalds or IHOPs. But the real struggle is among the hard-working people striving to be independent business operators, and the director’s fascinating road trip is a powerful reminder of their importance in our chain-choked world. |
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Last post by pearljams in Re: hi guys! on June 01, 2010, 08:42:21 AM |
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Blinders (Sunday, 04/27/08 - 5:00 pm) Horse-drawn carriage rides through New York's Central Park...It’s a tradition that’s been around since the 1800s, and one with a seamy underside and uncertain future. Carriage operators and some city officials consider the business a cherished part of New York history; animal rights activists decry the cruel treatment of the horses, which this compelling documentary reveals in never-before-seen detail. |
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Last post by Administration in About this Film... on April 08, 2008, 02:11:26 PM |
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Bomb It (Friday, 04/25/08 - 9:00 pm) Using a myriad of original interviews with artists from around the world as well as guerilla footage of graffiti writers in action, award-winning director Jon Reiss follows the advent of contemporary graffiti from its modern birthplace in the slums of Philadelphia to its notorious emergence as a visual adjunct to the rise of the hip-hop culture in 1970’s New York City, culminating in its current, varied and highly complex and controversial form. |
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Last post by Administration in About this Film... on April 08, 2008, 01:31:46 PM |
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Drug Wars: The Colombianization of Mexico (Tuesday, 04/22/08 - 7:00 pm) They post videos on the internet of torture and executions to generate fear for anyone who opposes them. They have assassinated journalists, lawyers, policemen and judges, and recently have taken up the practice of beheading many of their victims. This isn’t Iraq. These under-reported events are taking place in cities all across the U.S./Mexico border where cartels have dramatically affected the social order inside the country. |
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Last post by Administration in About this Film... on April 07, 2008, 09:59:14 PM |
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Hollywood Singing and Dancing (Sunday, 04/27/08 - 7:00 pm) Mark McLaughlin’s all-singing, all-dancing documentary is a celebration of song and dance that traces the American musical movie from its illustrious beginnings, with the lavish Busby Berkeley films that lifted spirits during the Great Depression, through the patriotic musicals of the 1940s, the collapse of the studio system in the 1950s, and their decline and rebirth during the years that followed. |
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Last post by Libbycole in A Complete Joy on April 27, 2008, 10:35:53 PM |
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The King of Texas (Friday, 04/25/08 - 9:00 pm) A documentary about Texas filmmaker Eagle Pennell (Last Night at the Alamo, The Whole Shootin’ Match), The King of Texas, is both an affectionate tribute to Pennell and his brand of regional-based, DIY filmmaking and a cautionary tale about substance and alcohol abuse and the premature end of a once promising filmmaking career. |
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Last post by Administration in About this Film... on April 08, 2008, 01:38:39 PM |
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Meat Loaf: In Search of Paradise (Saturday, 04/26/08 - 7:00 pm) In its festival premiere, both rockumentary and intimate portrait, Bruce David Klein’s In Search of Paradise reveals a side of multi-platinum rock god (and actor) Meat Loaf seldom seen by fans. Filmed in early 2007 during the first leg of Meat’s 18-month Bat Out of Hell III tour, the film captures the exciting, poignant, and grueling journey as he battles health issues and the unexpected media controversy over the staging of one of his songs that threatens to derail the tour, leaving him frustrated and depressed. |
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Last post by Administration in About this Film... on April 08, 2008, 01:45:33 PM |
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The Reinactors (Wednesday, 04/23/08 - 7:00 pm) Filmmaker David Markey presents a hilarious and oddly moving look at some of the celebrity look-a-likes and film character impersonators who inhabit the stretch of Hollywood Boulevard in front of Grauman’s Chinese Theatre, including how they got there and why they do it. |
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Last post by Administration in About this Film... on April 08, 2008, 12:07:58 PM |
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Robert Blecker Wants Me Dead (Friday, 04/25/08 - 7:00 pm) This feature-length documentary looks inside a most unlikely friendship – between Robert Blecker, one of the country’s most impassioned crusaders for capital punishment – and Daryl Holton, a mass-murderer awaiting execution on Tennessee’s death row. |
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Last post by Administration in Re: The guy is either cr... on May 11, 2008, 12:12:03 PM |
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As It Is In Heaven (Sunday, 04/27/08 - 5:00 pm) A story of an artist rediscovering his desire to create. Successful world-renowned conductor Daniel Dareus (Michael Nyqvist), after a physical and emotional breakdown, suddenly abandons his career to return to his village in remote northern Sweden—a place where he spent a miserable, soul-crushing childhood. |
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Last post by Libbycole in Opening scene on April 27, 2008, 10:23:10 PM |
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August (Saturday, 04/26/08 - 7:00 pm) Josh Hartnett brilliantly plays Tom Sterling, a young, aggressive dot-com entrepreneur fighting to keep his start-up company, LandShark.com, afloat. After his initial outrageous success fueled by slobbering media hype, high-flying A-lister Tom finds himself on a personal and professional downward spiral as he struggles to reunite with former girlfriend Sarrah, regain control of his company from his investor Ogilvie (a coolly vicious David Bowie), and deal with age-old family wounds with his father David (Rip Torn)—representing a whole generation who doesn’t get the all-paper assets company culture—and his brother Joshua. |
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Last post by Administration in About this Film... on April 08, 2008, 01:52:42 PM |
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Choke (Sunday, 04/27/08 - 7:00 pm) Actor-turned-director Clark Gregg brings to the screen a wickedly colorful dark comedy about mothers and sons, sexual compulsion, and the sordid underbelly of Colonial theme parks. |
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Last post by TomF in Re: Readers of "Choke"/P... on April 25, 2008, 07:36:06 PM |
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The Fragility of Seconds (Tuesday, 04/22/08 - 7:00 pm) A single, lethal event brings three men together under deadly circumstances. Shot on location in Texas and Chihuahua, Mexico, The Fragility of Seconds is an extraordinarily realized drama by some of our most prodigious local talents. |
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Last post by Administration in About this Film... on April 07, 2008, 09:38:37 PM |
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Journal of a Contract Killer (Thursday, 04/24/08 - 7:00 pm) Stephanie Komack was a high-class hooker and assassin for the Italian Mob. Now working in London as a waitress, and a single mother to her seven year old daughter, the Mob track Stephanie down and persuade her to do one last job. The hit goes wrong and Stephanie soon realises the stark reality of her failure. They snatch her daughter as punishment, but didn't figure on Stephanie's capacity for revenge! |
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Last post by Administration in About this Film... on April 08, 2008, 12:32:31 PM |
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Lovely by Surprise (Friday, 04/25/08 - 7:00 pm) Filmmaker Kirt Gunn’s whimsical, multi-layered work weaves an intriguing narrative from three seemingly unrelated plot threads. These three worlds collide in this witty, deftly written, completely original comedy-drama. |
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Last post by Administration in About this Film... on April 08, 2008, 12:49:37 PM |
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Lucky Days (Friday, 04/25/08 - 7:00 pm) Set during the last summer of Coney Island's historic amusement park, unfolds the story of Virginia and her quest for freedom. Freedom from her abusive boyfriend. Freedom from her freak show family. Freedom from herself. A chance encounter with her long lost childhood sweetheart exposes Virginia to the vital and dangerous molten interior she never knew was smoldering within her. |
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Last post by Administration in About this Film... on April 08, 2008, 12:59:03 PM |
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Roman de gare (Monday, 04/21/08 - 7:00 pm) This film weaves together the stories of an abandoned woman, a best-selling author with a secret, and a stranger who isn’t all that he seems, into a layered, eccentric tale of love, justice, and deception. |
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Rosemary's Baby (Thursday, 04/24/08 - 7:00 pm) A young couple move into a new apartment, only to be surrounded by peculiar neighbors and occurrences. When the wife becomes mysteriously pregnant, paranoia over the safety of her unborn child begins controlling her life. |
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Last post by Libbycole in Meeting William Fraker on April 27, 2008, 10:27:05 PM |
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Savage Grace (Thursday, 04/24/08 - 7:00 pm) A dramatization of the shocking Barbara Daly Baekeland murder case, which happened in a posh London flat on Friday 17 November 1972. The bloody crime caused a stir on both sides of the Atlantic and remains one of the most memorable American Tragedies. |
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Last post by Administration in About this Film... on April 08, 2008, 12:41:00 PM |
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The Secrets of Jonathan Sperry (Sunday, 04/27/08 - 5:00 pm) Gavin MacLeod (The Love Boat) plays the title character in this faith-based family film for all ages. It is 1970 and best buddies Dustin, Albert and Mark are three 12-year-olds looking forward to a summer of fun. First crushes, terrible advice from friends, and the town bully complicate their lives. Mowing lawns, Dustin meets 74-year-old Jonathan Sperry, and his reclusive neighbor Mr. Barnes (Robert Guillaume, Benson). What happens that summer will change each of them forever. |
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Last post by Administration in About this Film... on April 14, 2008, 08:16:56 PM |
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Songwriter (Saturday, 04/26/08 - 5:00 pm) This Texas-made limited distribution film from 1984 is one of honoree Rip Torn’s favorites. Willie Nelson and Kris Kristofferson play a pair of hard-living country singers in this funny, original and very real look at the music business, penned by Bud Shrake. With a hilarious performance from Rip Torn and most of the film's songs having been written by Nelson and Kristofferson, this is truly a hidden gem. |
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Last post by Administration in About this Film... on April 14, 2008, 08:27:01 PM |
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South of Pico (Wednesday, 04/23/08 - 7:00 pm) For disparate strangers are brought together by a twist of fate in a residential neighborhood south of Pico Boulevard, a sprawling Los Angeles thoroughfare separating the rich from the poor. They witness a horrific car accident where they discover an unusual and violent moment of human bonding. |
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Last post by Administration in About this Film... on April 14, 2008, 08:37:00 PM |
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The Stone Angel (Saturday, 04/26/08 - 5:00 pm) Based on the best-selling landmark Canadian novel by Margaret Laurence, director Kari Skogland brings the story of feisty Hagar Shipley to the screen. With her life nearly behind her, Hagar’s son (Dylan Baker, Happiness) and daughter-in-law decide to place her in a nursing home. The fiercely proud Hagar will have none of that, so she bolts and hits the road for a return visit to the seaside home of her youth. |
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Last post by Administration in About this Film... on April 22, 2008, 11:16:55 AM |
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They Wait (Friday, 04/25/08 - 9:00 pm) After living in Shanghai for three years, a family returns to Vancouver for a family funeral. However, it is during Ghost Month, and ancient Chinese belief where souls of the dead roam the earth for their chance to be heard once more by the living. This gripping horror film is unique for its female protagonist and distinct lack of gratuitous gore. Featuring great cinematography and a terrific score, audiences who love a good ghost story with thrills and chills will love this creepy, well-crafted nail-biter. |
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Last post by Administration in About this Film... on April 22, 2008, 10:59:54 AM |
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Trail of the Screaming Forehead (Saturday, 04/26/08 - 9:00 pm) Writer-director-B movie revivalist Larry Blamire returns with this over-the-top homage to ‘50s sci-fi thrillers, featuring some of the greatest camp dialog ever uttered. Cadavra stars Jennifer Blaire, Susan McConnell, and Dan Conroy appear alongside early sci-fi veterans Dick Miller, James Karen, Betty Garrett, and Kevin McCarthy. |
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Last post by C.D. Jones in Re: Why not Black/White? on April 29, 2008, 08:21:51 PM |
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The Whole Shootin' Match (restored print) (Tuesday, 04/22/08 - 7:00 pm) Written, directed, shot, and edited by legendary Texan filmmaker Eagle Pennell on a shoestring budget in and around Austin 30 years ago, this film became the Little Indie That could, praised by critics the world over. |
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Last post by teasie35 in Re: The Whole Shootin' M... on April 23, 2008, 10:56:36 AM |
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30th Annual National Short Film & Video Competition (Saturday at 9:00) Announcements and screening presentations of this year’s winning short films in the categories of Animation, Fiction, Non-Fiction, Experimental and more. |
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Last post by Administration in About these Films... on April 08, 2008, 02:33:38 PM |
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CU@ED'S by Casey Stangl |
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Last post by Administration in Rate this Film! on April 14, 2008, 08:58:13 PM |
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Dark Yellow by Glen Luchford |
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Last post by Administration in Rate this Film! on April 14, 2008, 08:57:04 PM |
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Hot Dog by Bill Plympton |
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Last post by Administration in Rate this Film! on April 14, 2008, 08:55:27 PM |
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Magic Juan by Matthew Perkins |
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Last post by Administration in Rate this Film! on April 14, 2008, 08:59:42 PM |
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Paper Angels by AJ Ingoglia and Bob O'Reilly |
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Last post by Administration in Rate this Film! on April 14, 2008, 09:01:07 PM |
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Struck by Taron Lexton |
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Last post by Administration in Rate this Film! on April 14, 2008, 09:03:59 PM |
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The Replacement Child by Justin Lerner |
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Last post by Administration in Rate this Film! on April 14, 2008, 09:02:28 PM |
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04/26/08 - 5:00 pm (Saturday): PANEL - Mystery Science Theater In the not-too-distant past, comedian Joel Hodgson created a TV show that forever changed the way we watched movies, as he and two robot pals started talking through the worst films ever made as part of a bizarre scientific experiment. Join Hodgson and fellow writer-performers as they present favorite clips and discuss the secrets, the stories and the “poopie” behind this legendary and long-running comedy smash. |
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Last post by C.D. Jones in Anyone else make it out ... on April 29, 2008, 08:27:48 PM |
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04/26/08 - 7:00 pm (Saturday): Cinematic Titanic Live Riffing Five stars of “Mystery Science Theater 3000” — Trace Beaulieu, Frank Conniff, Joel Hodgson, Mary Jo Pehl and J. Elvis Weinstein — are back in the theater as Cinematic Titanic, dedicated to riffing on some of the most wretched movies ever to be committed to celluloid. They haven’t announced which movie they’ll be lambasting, but the program promises to be hilarious and outrageous. |
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Last post by Administration in About this film and heck... on April 22, 2008, 11:23:29 AM |
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