Archive for February, 2009
Saturday, February 28th, 2009
All About Dad's editor Jeremy Castillo, director/producer Mark Tran and producer/director of photography Todd Banhazl at Vivid's Cinequest Party
Michael Cecchi, Blanchard Ryan, Dave Steck and Julian Mark Kheel from Capers
(Photos by Felipe Buitrago of Metro)
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Saturday, February 28th, 2009
<>The cast and crew of "Two Million Stupid Women" before and during the screening of their film at the San Jose Rep on Friday at Cinequest.
(Photo by Felipe Buitrago)
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Friday, February 27th, 2009
Tonight at Cinequest brings what may be the most controversial film at the festival, and it is almost 100 years old.The Birth of a Nation (1915) The Civil War is fought and lost, and during its aftermath in the Reconstruction, the South is saved by bold, masked heroes: the Ku ...
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Thursday, February 26th, 2009
Not every film at Cinequest has to be a meditative chronicle of a doomed relationship or a cry of help for the oppressed of the world. There’s room for a good old-fashioned gore fest, as Metro reviewer Steve Palopoli writes about ...Samurai Avenger: The Blind Wolf (U.S.) This ...
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Thursday, February 26th, 2009
It's a good thing that most of the features at the festival play more than once, otherwise fans would have a hard time choosing between The Market at 7pm and Another Man at 7:15pm.As Metro's Steve Palopoli wrote, The Market is a surprising tale of black-market capitalism in Turkey. Perhaps most ...
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Wednesday, February 25th, 2009
(After the opening-night fervor dies down, it's time to do some serious planning for Cinequest. The big feature for Thursday looks to be the superlative Johnny Cash documentary)THE THOUGHT has been attributed to George “Machine Gun” Kelly: “Everyone in jail is innocent, and yet everyone in jail knows that there ...
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Tuesday, February 24th, 2009
The Necessities of Life (Canada) Baffin Island, 1952: an Inuk (Inuit) hunter named Tivii (Natar Ungalaaq) is picked up by a hospital ship, tested, transported and quarantined for tuberculosis in a Quebec City hospital. Almost totally isolated, he first tries to escape and then to commit suicide. Finally, he encounters ...
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Monday, February 23rd, 2009
Corpse Run is an entertaining coming-of-age movie about a group of PC gamers. It’s a low-budget Reality Bites, with a lot more beautiful people then you would expect see playing video games 24/7. Director and writer John-Michael Thomas creatively uses random inserts of game modes, voice-overs and the Windows blue ...
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Friday, February 13th, 2009
Bad Credit
Isla Fisher goes shopping in ‘Confessions,’ but the joke falls flat in broke economy
FROM THE POSTERS for [i]Confessions of a Shopaholic[/i], Isla Fisher looks like Amy Adams’ twin sister. Up-close, she’s a stranger creature, nearer to Lucille Ball. In slow-mo, director P.J. Hogan shows off Fisher’s prodigious jiggle-power. It ...
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