Atanarjuat, or The Fast Runner, comes to the Triangle buffeted by a gale of critical accolades from the country’s most respected film critics. For once, the hype can be believed. Shot on digital Betacam and directed by Zacharias Kunuk, the film is a three-hour epic set in the far north, around Baffin Island, and it […]
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Star Struck
Steven Soderbergh began his career with a ferocious bang at the age of 26 by winning the Palm d’Or at Cannes for his first film, sex, lies and videotape. “It’s all downhill from here,” he famously cracked as he accepted the prize. For a few years, his words seemed prophetic as he struggled to live […]
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Jim Haverkamp
“I told myself I’d get out of Iowa City before I was 30,” Jim Haverkamp says. Luckily for the Triangle film scene, he made good on his vow, four months before deadline. Now, five years after he chose North Carolina to be his promised land, our local film scene would be unimaginable without Haverkamp’s industry, […]
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Auto Motives
Growing up in the 1970s and ’80s, I always wanted to take in a drive-in movie. I would see television shows and films, invariably set in the 1950s, in which teenagers would gather in their cars, put speakers in their windows and sit back to take in films about biker gangs, bloodsucking freaks and monsters […]
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Po-mo Road Show
Recent years have seen the emergence of the microcinema scene, which exists in the Triangle in the form of regular film programs like Glitter Films and Flicker. This is beginning to give rise to traveling filmmakers, who are hitting the road like indie rock bands. Next Wednesday at Ringside, the Durham Association of Downtown Arts […]
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For the Boys
There’s an exchange early on in Star Wars II: Attack of the Clones in which the young Anakin Skywalker (Hayden Christenson) and Obi-wan Kenobi (Ewan McGregor) are preparing to pursue an assassin, one that Obi-Wan has mistaken for a man. Anakin says, “I think he is a she. And she’s probably a changeling.” “In that […]
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Balance Sheets and Bananas
Last year, a remarkably improbable event occurred in Washington, D.C., when the senior United States senator from North Carolina had a meeting with a rock star named Bono. It was widely reported that this senator, often thought to be an “evil” man, was reduced to tears by the urgent appeal of U2’s lead singer, and […]
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Equity for Everyone
Ever since I was 19 years old, I have rented many different rooms and apartments, ranging from a cold water flat in a squalid Denver neighborhood ($36 a week) to a walk-up in Manhattan’s Upper West Side (a steal at $1,200 a month). I never thought about home ownership–I was too busy starving, writing and […]
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Taking chances
The filmmaker was young and blond, with soft features and a countenance that looked as if it might easily be wounded. From Los Angeles she had booked a flight to North Carolina when she found out her film would be shown at a festival alongside two old films of Albert Maysles, who would be appearing […]
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Pros and Tyros
Chapel Hill’s Hi Mom! Film Festival is a defiantly unpretentious event that may have found the key to keeping its ambitions close to the do-it-yourself ethos of youthful artists: Keep stewardship of the fest in the hands of an ever-shifting cast of undergraduates. Although the festival, in its fifth year, now attracts over 400 entries […]
