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Before the Rains: Colonialism still bad, still photogenic
British plantation owner and colonialist extraordinaire Henry Moores (Linus Roache) fancies himself the cowboy of Kerala, cavorting around…
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SIFF News: Linas Phillips’ Great Speeches From a Dying World
Putting words in the mouths of the homeless.
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Week 1 Picks & Pans
THURSDAY, MAY 22 Battle in Seattle A sort of teargas–drenched version of Crash, Battle in Seattle is a…
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Young Yakuza: Japanese rappers cant save gangster doc.
Director Jean-Pierre Limosin’s Young Yakuza, a documentary on the immersion of a troubled Japanese youth into the shadowy,…
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Meet Bill: No, dont, we implore you.
Is Meet Bill the worst movie ever? Probably not, but it’s certainly incoherent enough to give Gigli a…
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Standard Operating Procedure: Torture Made Beautiful
It’s been 20 years since Errol Morris made The Thin Blue Line—a found “noir” that served to free…
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SIFF News: The Oscar winners are coming!
If you haven’t heard, things got a little out of hand back in November—November of 1999, that is.…
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Jellyfish: Israeli Comedy Forgoes the Usual Politics
Predicated on the spectacle of functionally depressed types stuck in mildly ridiculous situations not entirely of their own…
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Roman de Gare: Claude Lelouch Enjoyably Tweaks His Image
Claude Lelouch’s A Man and a Woman may be one of the silliest love songs in the canon…
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Mister Lonely: Michael Jackson and Marilyn Monroe Caught in Shocking Tryst!
The third feature by Harmony Korine, once the reigning Man You Love to Hate of American indie cinema,…
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Daughters of Wisdom: Tibetan Women Fight Oppression Through Prayer, Hard Work
Director Bari Pearlman got the opportunity of a lifetime when a Buddhist spiritual leader invited her to accompany…
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In the 1980s, three Mississippi 12-year-olds famously spent six years filming a
In the 1980s, three Mississippi 12-year-olds famously spent six years filming a shot-for-shot VHS remake of Raiders of…
