Pages tagged “issue 44”

Persepolis

Finding black humor in totalitarianism’s contradictions, Marjane Satrapi...  read more

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The Lovers/The Fire Within

Five years and three films separate The Lovers and The Fire Within...  read more

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The Guatemalan Handshake

This feature debut by writer/director Todd Rohal is filled with bizarre satisfactions...  read more

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Baghead

Jay and Mark Duplass, the duo behind 2005’s The Puffy Chair...  read more

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The Wackness

It’s hard to determine whether director Jonathan Levine wanted to...  read more

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The Mother Of Enemy Slayer

A young soldier returns to Arizona from Iraq, tormented by nightmares...  read more

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Billy Bob's Basement

Despite the critical acclaim Billy Bob Thornton’s music has received since his 2001 debut album Private Radio, most people inevitably assume that any musical project from an actor is a vanity effort...  read more

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Aimee Mann:

First band: A trio called the Young Snakes. Mann was 20 and living in Boston...  read more

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An Online Treehouse For Literary Monkeys

If you set up a million monkeys with a bunch of laptops, would they eventually produce Shakespeare? Maybe not...  read more

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Super 8

The film is grainy, the color is off and the images are speckled with “film dirt.” But despite its flaws (or perhaps because of them), Super 8 moviemaking has survived since 1965...  read more

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