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APR 2005

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Film

Lost in the Laboratory

by Williams Cole

Film

Todd Solondz has always given the viewer something akin to a routine dental checkup. There’s the nice comfortable seat and the pleasant massaging of your gums while you can’t really figure out what’s going on.

Down by the Old Mainstream

by David N. Meyer

Film

Even with the most scathing dismissal from every mainstream publication, Constantine continues to rake in the dollars, week after week. David Denby so ran out of pejoratives in The New Yorker that in the end he was reduced to lamenting that Catholic religious imagery was being tragically plundered for superficial purposes. Has he never seen a horror film?

Docs In Sight

Go Underground for the Good Stuff

by Williams Cole

Film

Why would The New York Times Magazine recently bother to run a feature article about the muddled issues in documentary using the film Assisted Living as the example?

 

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