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BIFF 2013: Finding light in the darkness

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Somewhere in a Ukrainian cave, the film crew for No Place on Earth switched off their headlamps...

BW BIFF Picks 2013: ‘The New Public’

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In Brooklyn’s Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood, the high school graduation rate is 40 percent. The New Public, a documentary by Jyllian Gunther, tells the story of a small group of high school teachers and administrators who tackle that problem by opening a small ...

BW BIFF Picks 2013: ‘Little World’

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At the time Little World was being filmed, Barcelona native Albert Casals was a 20-yearold world traveler. But nothing about the way that Albert views the world or travels through it resembles what most of us think of or do as we go from place to place...

BIFF 2013: The man behind the Man in Black

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In 2005, Jonathan Holiff was living in Los Angeles, working hard at his agency, The Hollywood-Madison Group. He hooked up celebrities with Fortune 500 companies for product endorsements; one of his biggest successes was getting Jessica Simpson together with Chicken ...

BW BIFF Picks 2013: ‘Seeking Asian Female’

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Despite opening with interviews of white men looking for Asian women, Seeking Asian Female is about one white man, one Asian woman and one documentarian...

BW BIFF Picks 2013: ‘Trash Dance’

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Texas choreographer Allison Orr does things the hard way. And as viewers of filmmaker Andrew Garrison’s Trash Dance will come to appreciate, the whole world is a better place because of her seeming lack of common sense...

Reel to reel | Week of February 14, 2013

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Only kinda good, fellas

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Nothing brings back memories of Sean Penn’s history as a serial domestic abuser like watching him revel in a man being drawn-and-quartered by automobiles. What a weird choice to take a cheesy, scene-chewing, 1940s mob-boss role at this point in his career. Cross-...

Holy Frenchman, Batman

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There’s a moment in Holy Motors when Monsieur Merde, a dirty leprechaun-looking man in a tattered green suit with scraggly red hair, approaches the fringes of a high-fashion photo shoot. The photographer is grunting, “Beauty, beauty!” with perverse glee at his model...

Diabetes: the real monster

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Hansel (Jeremy Renner) has diabetes. This is not a throwaway character trait, not a bit of bizarre nuance in a quasi-steampunk re-imagining of a Grimm fairy tale. The fact that Hansel must stop combating the forces of darkness whenever his wrist-alarm-thingie goes ...

Reel to reel | Week of February 7, 2013

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Wonder Woman versus chauvinism

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In many ways, the comic book character Wonder Woman is very much a product of the time in which she was conceived — World War II America...