Drama · Reviews

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Martha, Interrupted: Fassbinder’s 1974 Masterpiece on DVD

• October 31, 2004

“You’re always wanting to touch me!”

Activist & Political · African American · Biopic · Drama

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Resurrecting Lumumba: Raoul Peck’s Second Biography of the Martyred Revolutionary

• October 31, 2004

He’s back

Film Technology & History · Genres · Horror

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Horror Queens: Divas from Hollywood’s Golden Age Rampage Through the Sixties

• October 31, 2004

“She’s supposed to be shriveling away,” observed Davis, “but her tits keep growing. I keep running into them, like the Hollywood hills.”

Documentaries · LGBT & Queer

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Defending the Deviates: Evelyn Hooker Documentary Changing Our Minds on Video

• October 31, 2004

“It had something to do with my sexual intercourse”

Reviews · Sports

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Tears in the Astroturf: Friday Night Lights II

• October 31, 2004

This feel-good movie doesn’t

Reviews · Sports

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Odessa, Texas Goes Hollywood: Friday Night Lights I

• October 31, 2004

Are you ready for some rural idiocy?1

Exploitation & Erotica · Festivals & Awards

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Where Kink Is King: The 2004 CineKink Festival

• October 31, 2004

Won’t you be my pony boy?

Actors & Personalities · Music & Musicals

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Blue Skies? Well, Partly Sunny

• October 31, 2004

Fred ‘n’ Bing ‘n’ Irv, Part II

Comedy · Reviews

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“If I were different, maybe things could be the same, only different.” Leo McCarey’s Screwball Classic The Awful Truth on DVD

• October 31, 2004

Cary Grant and Irene Dunne live our dreams

Reviews · War

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Punishment Parks: The Battle of Algiers on DVD

• October 31, 2004

Look familiar?

Reviews

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Quickies: Random Short Reviews from The Black Pirate to H.P. Lovecraft to Uum Kulthum: A Voice Like Egypt

• October 31, 2004

“Ah’m no freak! They ah disgustin’!”

Festivals & Awards

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The Verve Is Back: The New York Film Festival 2004

• October 31, 2004

This year’s fest features a wealth of winners — and a few flops

Festivals & Awards

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Theda Bara’s Eyes: The 40th Chicago International Film Festival, Part 1

• October 31, 2004

From Akerman to Zhu

Directors · Essays

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Capra’s Corn? Dante … Dickens … Capra …

• October 31, 2004

George Bailey’s wartime America looks eerily familiar

Essays · SF & Fantasy

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The Interpretative Odyssey of 2001: Of Humanity and Hyperspace

• October 31, 2004

More fun in the new (old) world

Activist & Political · Documentaries · Reviews

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A Succession of Presents: Howard Zinn: You Can’t Be Neutral on a Moving Train

• July 31, 2004

Pay attention to that man behind the curtain

Actors & Personalities · Music & Musicals

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Steal This Picture … Please: Yolanda and the Thief

• July 31, 2004

Fred almost suffocates in Minnelli’s Yolanda and the Thief

Essays · Genres · War

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The Altered State of War: Heaven, Hell, and the Structure of the Combat Film

• July 31, 2004

“The duality of man. The Jungian thing, sir.”

Directors · Essays

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The Unbearable Lightness of Being Cool: Appropriation and Prospects of Subversion in the Works of Quentin Tarantino

• July 31, 2004

Overthrowing the patriarchy, one flush at a time

Activist & Political · Documentaries

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Jack-Ass II: Downsizing Morgan Spurlock’s Super Size Me

• July 31, 2004

Spurlock’s no Sherlock