I’ve come full circle with Woody Allen, who I first discovered in high school as the beloved, literate jester of my parents’ generation. I started watching his films in the mid-1980s when he was still churning out widely seen and appreciated movies like Zelig, Hannah and Her Sisters and Crimes and Misdemeanors. In fact, one […]
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Need to know
Carrboro documentary filmmaker Rebecca Cerese was driving on the I-395 in Washington, D.C., with her parents and her brother when she decided that something was amiss with the official Sept. 11 narrative. “We passed the Pentagon, and I suddenly realized that we never see images of the Pentagon being hit. Instead, we see the towers, […]
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The Road to Guantánamo
Of the approximately 760 people who have been incarcerated at Guantánamo Bay as part of the so-called Global War on Terror, only 10 or so have been formally charged with crimes and none have been convicted. There are many reasons to be outraged and appalled, and upon viewing Michael Winterbottom and Mat Whitecross’ The Road […]
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Invisible bubble
Since moving to the Triangle in 2001, 29-year-old Niku Arbabi has been a whirligig of organizational might around her primary passions, DIY filmmaking and ‘zine publishing. Since 2002, she has been the driving force behind Ms. Films Festival, taking the helm after it was created as a one-off event by local curators Corky Goldsmith and […]
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Puzzles, patterns and advancing armies
The beauty of Wordplay is its ready-made simplicity as a competition documentary. Take an obscure sport that has an annual championship, follow a few key players up to the big match, and take the film to a nail-biting finale. That formula worked with spelling bees in Spellbound, wheelchair rugby in Murderball and ballroom dancing in […]
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The snows of Kekexili
Perhaps it’s a sign of our shrinking, ever-more connected globe that it becomes ever-more difficult to document truly dangerous stories in exotic locations. Our experience of adventure has become so debased and secondhand that one cannot even use the word “extreme” anymore without a roll of the eyes. But, in the kind of movie that […]
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Wish List come true
Last month we visited with Sean Overbeeke as he prepared to travel to Los Angeles for the Student Academy Awards on June 10, when his short film Christmas Wish List would be up for a student Oscar. When I caught up with Overbeeke last week, he was driving along Cahuenga Boulevard, lost somewhere in L.A. […]
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Maggie’s pharm
The French film Clean unfolds mostly in English and stars a Hong Kong actress who speaks French, English and Cantonese and an American actor who speaks Noltese. Meanwhile, the action in the film moves from Vancouver to Paris to London to San Francisco. Clean may be as international as international gets–even in the time of […]
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International shorts conspiracy
After eight ramshackle but reliably exciting years, the Hi Mom! Film Festival will come roaring back to life this weekend. There are still no major sponsors, no incorporation into a nonprofit, and no executive director. It’s just three guys who love experimental shorts. Once again, co-conspirators Matt Hedt, Ian Krabacher and Tom Laney have pulled […]
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ADF Preview 2006: Dancing screen
Midway through the American Dance Festival, the focus will shift to the image of dance on screen. But those attending the offerings of “Dancing for the Camera: International Festival of Film and Video Dance,” July 7-9, shouldn’t expect a revue of Busby Berkeley numbers. In fact, curator Doug Rosenberg finds it easier to define screen […]
