SHOT IN AN abandoned roadside gas station near Brooklet, Ga., the 24-minute student competition entry The Bottom is a complex melange of Greek myth and Americana. It was scored by […]
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Film Festival: Brad Paisley, poop star
FOR A FIVE-MINUTE SHORT about finding a toilet, Numero Dos certainly boasts an interesting — and complicated — pedigree. The “plot” concerns the efforts of a roadie for country superstar […]
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Film Festival: New Urban Cowboy
KNOWN TO URBAN PLANNERS and designers the word over as the father of “New Pedestrianism,” Michael E. Arth decided to put his groundbreaking ideas about compact, walking-oriented, mixed-use neighborhoods to […]
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Film Festival: My First Guitar
NICK MEAD’S documentary My First Guitar is about exactly that: It’s a remarkably intimate collection of reminiscences with some of music’s biggest names about their very first six-string. It’s almost […]
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Film Festival: Ed Burns’ Purple Violets
WHAT DOES IT SAY about today’s movie biz that the producers of a film with established, respected stars like Ed Burns, Debra Messing and Selma Blair would rather avoid theatres […]
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Film Festival: Making horse racing cool again
WHEN FILMMAKING BROTHERS John and Brad Hennegan were following six horse racing teams to the Kentucky Derby for their documentary, little did they know that one of the horses would […]
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Film Festival: When music & politics collide
WHILE MOST AMERICANS probably can’t find Estonia on a map, the small Baltic country actually provided a stirring portrait of bravery during its occupation by the former Soviet Union. Filmmaker […]
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Film Festival: Will Frears jumps from stage to screen
THOUGH PERHAPS more immediately known as the son of renowned film director Stephen Frears (The Queen, High Fidelity, My Beautiful Laundrette), Will Frears has made a name for himself in […]
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Film Festival: Take Ten
TEN YEARS AGO a little start-up called the “Savannah Film and Video Festival” premiered at the Trustees Theatre, then newly restored by the Savannah College of Art and Design. A […]
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Film Festival: John Sayles interview
JOHN SAYLES HAS BEEN called the grandfather of the indie film. He’s been called the voice of the American working class. He’s a director, an actor, and a screenwriter. His […]
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Building on a decade of fine film
Building on a decade of fine film The Gray’s Reef Ocean Film Festival may be on our cover this week, but last Friday I had another film festival on my […]