For his senior thesis, Colin Levy created The Secret Number, a short film that takes the conventions of time, space and mathematics and turns them on their heads. Levy, who […]
Savannah Film Festival
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A wild ride
If you can only see one movie during the Savannah Film Festival this year, make it the independent feature Take Me Home. The directorial debut of Sam Jaeger, a star […]
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Farming is sexy
If sun–kissed cuties in overalls driving tractors through sun–dappled fields sounds like your kind of fantasy, this one’s for you. A paean to those who make the sustainable food movement […]
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The Lily Tomlin continuum
One ringy–dingy, two ringy–dingys, and there’s that voice on the other end of the line. It’s Lily Tomlin, one of the most prolific and honored comedic performers of the last […]
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‘People tend to remember the bad guys’
Ray Liotta comes off like a regular guy. Unlike a lot of actors, in conversation, he uses the word movie instead of the more pretentious film; after 25 years as […]
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What happens to the jailbirds?
The Savannah Film Festival, says writer/director Brian Jett, is the perfect venue for unveiling his first feature film, Let Go. “The challenge with a movie like Let Go is, it’s […]
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X appeal
Oklahoma native James Marsden schlepped around Los Angeles for nearly a decade, taking one small film or TV role after another, until he got his big break. That was in […]
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Shadows of America
Apparently, we have Ted Turner to thank for the National Film Registry. In the 1980s, the media mogul purchased MGM’s library of classic films, and proceeded to “colorize” many of […]
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Mark Your Calendar: Tony Arata
Savannah’s had a few success stories in the singer/songwriter department, but none so impressive as Tony Arata, who was born here in the waning days of the 1950s and put […]
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Mark Your Calendar: Let’s go to the movies
Sure, it’ll be kind of cool to ogle Oliver Stone, Lily Tomlin, Alec Baldwin, Ellen Barkin and Famke Janssen when they hit town for “awards” at the Savannah Film Festival […]
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Film Fest books Stone, Tomlin and ‘A Dangerous Method’
The SCAD-sponsored 2011 Savannah Film Festival, Oct. 29 through Nov. 5, is bringing Oscar-winning director Oliver Stone to town for its Lifetime Achievement Award. Also scheduled to show up for […]
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Honoring Bobby
There are a lot of monuments to a lot of people in Savannah. James Oglethorpe, Tomochichi, Johnny Mercer, Nathanael Greene, Casimir Pulaski, The Waving Girl, monuments to veterans of the […]