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Documentaries · Noir · Reviews

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DVD Sampler: Cuban Story, The Vanishing, The Joke, Salesman, and Strange Illusion

  • August 1, 2002

In DVD land, the world’s your oyster – pearls included (sometimes) Cuban Story (Victor Pahlen, 1959) By the mid-1950s, Errol Flynn was enjoying the low high life of a bloated[…]

Reviews · TV & Streaming

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1966 CBS Version of Death of a Salesman: Now on DVD

  • August 1, 2002

Sure Arthur Miller’s masterpiece is flawed, but so’s your mother On paper, Death of a Salesman, Arthur Miller’s 1949 Pulitzer Prize winner, shouldn’t work. Miller intended the play as another[…]

Actors & Personalities · Music & Musicals

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Astaire & Rogers Fade to Black in The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle

  • August 1, 2002

Fred dies, Ginger cries The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle is the not very graceful swan song of the Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers musicals of the thirties.1 Carefree,[…]

Directors · Documentaries

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Rare Docs on French Filmmakers: Bresson and Akerman on VHS

  • August 1, 2002

Two of the most elusive auteurs tell all, or at least some. ROBERT BRESSON: WITHOUT A TRACE A documentary about Robert Bresson (1901?-1999), with the director cooperating – indeed, appearing[…]

Actors & Personalities · Interviews

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“Redefine What It Means to You”: Talking with Margaret Cho

  • August 1, 2002

The “All American Girl” on her new movie, her influences, and the joy of high colonics As the quote implies, Margaret Cho is no stranger to redefinition, mostly because she’s[…]

Directors · Noir · Reviews

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South of the Chocolate Mountains: Scattered Impressions of The Hitch-Hiker

  • August 1, 2002

Ida Lupino: Mother of Us All! “Any rocks up there to give you a problem, darlin’? Now, Walter baby, while we’re here we might as well take the posse through.[…]

Reviews · SF & Fantasy

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I’m Taking the Kids! Larry Clark’s Teenage Caveman on DVD

  • August 1, 2002

Girlflesh ‘n boyflesh ‘n apocalypse [Warning: Spoilers!] It’s hard to keep your thinking cap on when you’re watching Teenage Caveman, directed by the notorious Larry Clark, the famed photographer/director whose[…]

Reviews · SF & Fantasy

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Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man (2002): There’s No “There” There

  • August 1, 2002

Why Tobey Maguire has us by the testicles and why he isn’t going to let go Whence Spider-Man? Whence, indeed, and whither? It has come to pass in these United[…]

Comedy · Essays · Reviews

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Recalling the Dream of Parenthood in Raising Arizona

  • August 1, 2002

Of babynappings and bodily fluids, Coens and Kubricks In Raising Arizona (1987), a blatantly obscure graffiti can be seen in the lavatory wall behind escaped convicts, Hale and Evelle (John[…]

Experimental & Underground · LGBT & Queer · Reviews

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Diamonds in the Toilet: Andy Warhol’s The Chelsea Girls

  • August 1, 2002

Warhol’s timeless, trashy “girls” come a-callin’ More talked about than seen since its debut, The Chelsea Girls, Andy Warhol’s infamous double-projected dive into a demimonde he created, is getting a[…]

Music & Musicals · Reviews

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At last, a Cool British Film: 24 Hour Party People

  • August 1, 2002

Dogme meets the Manchester music scene in this well-wrought biopic British cinema has moved on in the last decade – its heritage dramas now tend to have a modernistic twist,[…]

Documentaries · Experimental & Underground · LGBT & Queer · Reviews

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The Revolution Starts with Glitter! David Weissman and Bill Weber’s Documentary The Cockettes

  • August 1, 2002

The legendary campsters of the counterculture take a bow in this diverting documentary The Cockettes – fondly, if sometimes barely remembered as curios in the camp canon – are reborn[…]

Music & Musicals · TV & Streaming

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Looking Back at the Fabulous Invalid: TV Broadcasts of June Moon, Awake and Sing!, The Human Voice, and The Journey of the Fifth Horse, now on DVD

  • August 1, 2002

There was a time, America, a time when public television consisted of more than Antiques Roadshow, women in pantsuits explaining how to feel good about yourself, and reruns of inane[…]

Reviews

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Titanic Lovers, or How a Good Girl Pleased Her Man

  • August 1, 2002

(Which in this case may be better than getting him) The Titanic did not sink; it only seemed that way at the time. She has proven as unsinkable as one[…]

Essays

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Bleeding Realism Dry, or How to Turn One’s Back on a Tyrant

  • August 1, 2002

The cripplingly small-minded art of verisimilitude becomes crippled by its own technology Are Human Beings Real, or Do They Only Act That Way? When we contemplate all the sinister, spirit-truncheoning[…]

Festivals & Awards

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Keeping It Real: Documentaries in the San Francisco International Lesbian and Gay Film Festival, 2002

  • August 1, 2002

Dykes and trannies get more than their usual screen time this year, thank goddess Documentaries are the heart of the Lesbian & Gay Film Festival, not only because they’re often[…]

Actors & Personalities · Directors · Silents

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“Why Are They All Ugly Little Men?” Chaplin, Keaton, Lloyd, and Langdon: The Great Silent Clowns Reformatted

  • August 1, 2002

“Why are they all ugly little men?” asked Cindy, after I’d dragged her to three solid weeks of Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Harry Langdon, and Harold Lloyd at a silent[…]

Books

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Book review: Walking with the Wind, Trans. by Ahmad Karimi-Hakkad and Michael Beard

  • April 18, 2002

Walking with the Wind: Poems by Abbas Kiarostami, Trans. by Ahmad Karimi-Hakkad and Michael Beard. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2001. Trade paper: $19.95. 240pp. ISBN 0-67400-844-8. It is April 2000.[…]

Books

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Book review: Framing the South, by Allison Graham

  • April 16, 2002

Framing the South: Hollywood, Television, and Race During the Civil Rights Struggle, by Allison Graham. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001. Cloth, $39.95, 224pp. ISBN 0-80186-615-4. If you watch Hollywood[…]

Books

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Book review: The Money Shot, by Jane Mills

  • April 16, 2002

The Money Shot: Cinema, Sin, and Censorship, by Jane Mills. Annandale, New South Wales, Australia. Pluto Press, 2001. Cloth, $32.95 (U.S.D./AUD), 255pp. ISBN 1-86403-142-5. It is perhaps significant to Jane[…]

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