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It must have been eight years ago, already, when I was in “Much Ado About Nothing.” I was a junior in high school, with long blonde hair that had been pinned and curled and sprayed into ringlets, and I was wearing a luxurious period costume, all reds and golds and heavy ...
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Taking the soundtrack challenge a bit further, SM Writer Nick SCHWARTZ! directly ties music and film together to recount major moments of memory.

After a long day, taking calls for interview after interview, filmmaker AJ Schnack, whose Kurt Cobain: About a Son opens at New York's IFC tonight, graciously spoke about his film, delving into the promises of the baby boomer generation, defining a color palette for the film and the imp...
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I’ve always been amazed by the power of music (not to mention that of smell) to reveal hitherto forgotten memories. A recollection fortunate enough to have been stored away with its own soundtrack reveals itself with more clarity and poignancy than its silent brethren.

GreenCine's Francine Taylor talks with filmmaker AJ Schnack about Kurt Cobain: About a Son. Read an excerpt here, or the full article over at GreenCine.

As he is most days of film festival screenings, or at least those run so far this year, Eric Panter wears an expression etched with both energy and exhaustion. The founder of Festival League and director of all the consequent film festivals run under the moniker, Panter exhibits th...
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After more than two years, Attila Szász's short has drawn accolades from the likes of the Newport Beach, Ojai and Houston film festivals, screened in 23 countries worldwide and landed two distribution deals, including one from Shorts International, a short film distributor...
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At this point filmmaker David Branin is still searching for his voice. “There are a lot of filmmakers out there who have a camera at age five or six, and they are filmmakers right from a very young age. For me it wasn’t like that at all,” he says. In college, however, Branin stumbled into his fascination with filmmaking and began, with th...
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Editor Noralil Ryan Fores' non-linear assessment touching upon the soundtracks of your life, why film journalists should be wary of generic defining nouns and the scariest comment film journalist and blogger Karina Longworth has e...
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There are many secrets layered in A Balancing Act, among them filmmaker Marc Israel's tendency to fantasy and stylism, his many meanings scattered in the pastiche of memories he cuts together for the film, his mockery of the depression which never illuminates itself to him. ...
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With Lost and Found in Mexico, Caren Cross has avoided the didactic and sought merely to share. And, it's this sense of sharing, not necessarily possessions but rather thoughts and life, that keeps Cross in Mexico even right now. There's a sense she's actu...
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The life of a nanny in New York plays out with so much seeming openness that it's rare to find a piece of art that truly delves past the superficial, this despite the fact that Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini's The Nanny Diaries came out just last mon...
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