The Clearing dir. Brugge Opens Fri July 9 Various Theaters At the opening of The Clearing, two men are shown to be living very different lives. Arnold Mack (Willem Dafoe) eats cereal for breakfast and is obviously just scraping by, while Wayne Hayes (Robert Redford) eats a fancy breakfast by the pool. Because Redford is […]
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Little Jewels
PDX Fest Well-Curated, Secretly Fun
PDX Film Festival Fri April 16 thru Sun April 18 Guild Theater Rotterdam is the film festival of choice for those who want to keep abreast of adventurous and experimental world cinema, but can’t make it there to get our fix. The closest we in the U.S. come to it are the plethora of “underground” […]
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Paranoia Film Festival
The Republicans are Out to Get You
The Karl Rove Paranoia Film Festival Opens Fri March 12 Clinton St. Theater You may remember Dennis Nyback from his stint programming at the Guild, and giving pre-movie lectures at the Clinton Street. He’s a film exhibitionist in every sense of the word; he’s never met a promotional gimmick he didn’t like. Drawing from an […]
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Cremaster Master
A Matthew Barney Interview
Matthew Barney grew up in Boise, Idaho, where he was the star quarterback on the high-school football team. But at six feet tall, he was too short to play college ball. He decided to go to Yale, starting in premed before switching to art, and took modeling jobs to put himself through school. After graduating, […]
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The Cremaster Cycle
Five Flicks in a Nutshell
The hype surrounding the five Cremaster movies makes them out to be important, impenetrable, overly symbolic works of art. Knowing a little bit about them will keep you from feeling totally overwhelmed, but being overwhelmed is part of the experience, so don’t worry if you don’t feel like you “get it.” Cremaster 1 (1995, 40 […]
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Story of a Life
Edward Yang on Getting Your Yi Yi’s Out
“I’m a city person,” Edward Yang says. “I was born, grew up, and stayed in big cities. I love urban life; all different kinds of people can run into each other. Most importantly, I think city life is becoming more and more similar in different cities, compared to 20 or 30 years ago.” In Yang’s […]
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Compromised by Friendship
Talking with Cameron Crowe is Fun and Easy
CAMERON CROWE’S the kind of guy you’d like to call up, go out for beers, and shoot the shit. This is the impression I get after meeting him. We’re talking about Almost Famous; how it’s based on his life, the oft-repeated cries of the death of rock ‘n’ roll, the perpetually shaky reputation of Rolling […]