HRWFF Review: Camp 14 – Total Control Zone
Most narratives out of North Korea are bleak. Refugees from the country brave the possibility of murder and imprisonment if they flee, which ...
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BFF Review: Hank and Asha
The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post. — George Bernard Shaw Epistolary stories are fascinating to me given ...
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BFF Review: Dragon Girls
One of the first shots of the documentary Dragon Girls is part David Lean and part Busby Berkeley. From a high angle we watch ...
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BFF Review: Furever
The dog on the left is dead. The owner had the dog professionally stuffed in order to cope with the loss. The dog ...
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BFF Review: Black Out
Two things struck me when the opening credits of Black Out came on: 1) there was a lot of style and flash in ...
BFF Short Film Roundup 1
Over the weekend I caught five short films at the Brooklyn Film Festival. One called Good Grief played before the feature-length documentary Furever ...
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BFF Review: Mr. Angel
If someone were to tell you that Buck Angel is a porn star, you’d assume he does gay porn. Just look at the ...
BFF Short Film Roundup 2
I didn’t get to see as many films at the Brooklyn Film Festival as I’d hoped to due to other obligations and personal ...
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Review: Before Midnight
To follow up Before Sunrise and Before Sunset, two of the best character pieces ever made, was always going to be a challenge. Keeping ...
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HRWFF Review: Pussy Riot – A Punk Prayer
Pussy Riot was back in the news following the 11-day hunger strike of Maria Alyokhina. Alyokhina started the hunger strike on May 22 ...
Help fund Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia
I really enjoyed the documentary Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia, a fine portrait of one of the last great public intellectuals ...
Tribeca doc Oxyana causes controversy in West Virginia
Alec and I didn’t like the drug addiction documentary Oxyana at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival. Apparently we’re not alone. A number of ...