Todd Solondz, whose Palindromes opens theatrically this Friday, spoke with the Independent by telephone from New York last week. Independent: Why eight Avivas? Todd Solondz: When I made Welcome to the Dollhouse, all sorts of people would walk up to me–it could be a beautiful model, it could be a heavyset construction worker–and they would […]
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Electra off the grid
Rebecca Miller has an exquisite pedigree, for she’s the daughter of the righteous dramatist and moral stalwart Arthur Miller and his post-Marilyn wife Inge Morath, a globetrotting photographer and Continental of the old school. After growing up in New England with her parents, Rebecca went to Yale and studied art. She showed sculpture in galleries, […]
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City of accidents
The story goes that the first car crash in American history happened a century ago when two automobiles collided at an intersection somewhere in middle Americana. The punch line is that they were the only two automobiles in town. I heard this story when I was a kid; unfortunately, the inexhaustible researchers at Google weren’t […]
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Little fugitive
There is more than one kind of Japanese movie, but to watch Tarantino films and follow the fan-boy Web sites, one would think that Japan is awash in anime pyrotechnics, gruesome violence and sex with minors. But even as Hirokazu Kore-eda’s quietly enthralling Nobody Knows contains a doughty young boy hero with the all-Nipponese name […]
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The real world
Youth culture was invented in America sometime between Elvis and The Graduate, and its cultural appurtenances are everywhere on the globe: tattoos, cell phones, newer than new music and adventures with sex and drugs. In this respect, kids in Israel today are little different from their American counterparts. But there is one critical difference. Several […]
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The lonely hunter
The paintings are alternately vibrant, serene and joyful, hundreds of them produced over a long lifetime in Yanceyville, located in rural Caswell County, N.C. Many of the images are strikingly oblique glimpses of attractive young women at leisure: blow-drying hair, roller-skating or poised on a tree swing. But as immediately appealing as the paintings are, […]
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Hits and lists
Martin Scorsese has come and gone, and so has the close-knit community of documentary filmmakers who descended on Durham last weekend for the 8th Annual Full Frame Documentary Film Festival. By most measures, the festival was a roaring success, with strong ticket sales and the opportunity for a first glimpse at such stellar films as […]
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Manley on Mana
From the vantage point of one envious North Carolinian, former Durham resident Roger Manley is living the dream. I spoke with him last week from his home in Paris, where he relocated five years ago to begin work on Mana: Beyond Belief with his friend and collaborator Roger Friedman. “My French is still pretty pitiful,” […]
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High and low
The good people at Full Frame are gearing up for another action-packed festival, which is set to run April 7-10. Although the festival often resembles a weekend roost for the finest documentary filmmakers of New York City and points beyond, Full Frame has also been very good to local artists. Recently, Jim Haverkamp and Brett […]
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American staircase
As a document, the film is a Balzacian foray into the complex workings of society, high and low. There’s a dead society lady and the complex, sexually adventurous novelist-husband who stands accused of her murder. There’s a brilliant defense lawyer and a pair of dogged prosecutors who compensate for their lack of sophistication with a […]
