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A Conversation with Jonathan Olshefski & Christopher Rainey (QUEST)

Christopher Reed — Tue, 20 Feb 2018 18:34:36 +0000

I met with director Jonathan Olshefski and the primary subject – Christopher Rainey, aka Quest – of his feature-documentary debut, Quest, on Saturday, January 13, 2018, at the Maryland Film Festival‘s Parkway Theatre (which now screens movies year-round). They were there […]

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CASSETTE

Jessica Baxter — Fri, 10 Nov 2017 23:22:19 +0000

You don’t throw this out. You take care of it. Because someone took that time out of their life that they can’t get back to make this tape for you.

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PATTI CAKE$

Christopher Reed — Thu, 31 Aug 2017 17:16:17 +0000

Though conventional in its dramatic arc, Patti Cake$ more than makes up for the predictability of its approach with fully realized lead characters and a toe-tapping

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A Conversation With Pablo Aravena (NEXT: A PRIMER ON URBAN PAINTING)

Pamela Cohn — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 14:46:55 +0000

(Note: In light of the film’s domestic DVD release, we are posting a re-edited version of an interview HTN contributor Pamela Cohn conducted with filmmaker Pablo Aravena in 2006 and first posted at her blog Still In Motion.) Five years […]

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SARASOTA FILM FESTIVAL 2009 – Monday, March 30th

Michael Tully — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 08:43:15 +0000

Monday is probably the slowest, lowest-key day of the SFF, which is a good thing, because Sunday night’s karaoke session took its toll on everyone who participated. I managed to squeeze four movies into six compact hours, which didn’t hit […]

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WILD STYLE at Film Forum and PLANET B-BOY on DVD

Nelson Kim — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 19:19:38 +0000

I didn’t catch up with Charlie Ahearn’s groundbreaking 1982 feature Wild Style, playing at Film Forum through next Thursday, until sometime in the late ‘90s. As a hip hop geek in good standing, I was aware that the movie was […]

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PAID IN FULL

Nelson Kim — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 12:51:13 +0000

(Paid in Full is available on DVD and Blu-ray.) Early on in Charles Stone III’s 2002 crime drama Paid in Full, there’s a scene where Ace (Wood Harris), a straight-and-narrow young man beginning to succumb to the allure of drug […]

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