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A Conversation with Miao Wang (MAINELAND)

Christopher Reed — Mon, 03 Apr 2017 23:22:26 +0000

I met with director Miao Wang on Wednesday, March 15, 2017, at SXSW, to discuss her second feature-documentary, Maineland (which follows Beijing Taxi, released in 2010). The new film tells the story of Chinese exchange students who travel to attend Fryeburg […]

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LAST TRAIN HOME

Michael Tully — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 17:31:13 +0000

If you want to fully grasp the impact of globalization on scales both large and small, look no further than Lixin Fan’s Last Train Home. An indirect companion piece to Yung Chang’s toweringly great Up the Yangtze (which was also produced by the Montreal production company EyeSteelFilm), Last Train Home is a visually breathtaking, emotionally devastating achievement that humanizes the massively complex issue of globalization by focusing on one Chinese family as they struggle to make ends meet.

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SARASOTA FILM FESTIVAL 2010 – A Wrap-Up

Michael Tully — Tue, 04 May 2010 19:09:59 +0000

If the Sarasota Film Festival isn’t my very favorite festival of them all, it’s certainly hovering right near the tippy-top. I’m sure that sounds like a fishy statement to make considering my girlfriend is Director of Programming Holly Herrick, not […]

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NEW DIRECTORS/NEW FILMS 2010 – HTN’s Recommendations

Nelson Kim — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 20:07:59 +0000

From today through April 4, New Yorkers will be treated to the latest edition of New Directors/New Films. This indispensable program celebrating noteworthy work by younger filmmakers across the globe is put together by the Film Society of Lincoln Center […]

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SXSW 2010 – A Preview

Michael Tully — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 09:07:33 +0000

Whenever March 1st arrives, I can’t help but have the following thought: not only am I lucky to be alive, I am so-so very-very lucky-lucky to be me-me-me. For at no other time of year do my most cherished personal […]

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TRUE/FALSE 2010 PART TWO – A Festival Apart

Pamela Cohn — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 09:31:37 +0000

(If you haven’t already, read Part One of Pamela Cohn’s wrap-up right here.) This year, the T/F team watched about 700 films sent to them for consideration for their carefully curated festival of just 40 selections. The programming ethos is […]

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TRUE/FALSE 2010 PART ONE – A Festival Apart

Pamela Cohn — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 19:51:59 +0000

In a free local Missouri paper called VOX Magazine, reporter Aaron Channon writes, “The winter air in Columbia is not charged with the taste of salt water off the Mediterranean, and George Clooney will not be spotted sauntering along the […]

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SUNDANCE 2010: Tully’s Wrap-Up

Michael Tully — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 08:58:57 +0000

From the moment one set foot in Park City for the 2010 Sundance Film Festival, it became quite clear that the powers-that-be were using the departure of longtime festival director Geoffrey Gilmore as a subconscious marketing tool. Though the ad […]

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