HRWFF Review: Anita
Certain historical events unfold when you’re young, but you don’t even realize how important they are until you’re much older. I remember seeing ...
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HRWFF Review: 99% – Occupy Wall Street Collaborative Film
Time to out myself: while I believe that income inequality is a serious issue, I could never get fully behind Occupy Wall Street. ...
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HRWFF Review: Fatal Assistance
The numbers of the 2010 Haitian earthquake are heartbreaking: between 220,000 to 316,000 dead, and roughly 280,000 residences and commercial buildings destroyed or ...
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HRWFF Review: Camp 14 – Total Control Zone
Most narratives out of North Korea are bleak. Refugees from the country brave the possibility of murder and imprisonment if they flee, which ...
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Review: Violet & Daisy
There was a point in the mid-to-late 1990s when a bunch of lesser filmmakers tried to make movies like Quentin Tarantino. It was ...
BFF Review: Hank and Asha
The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post. — George Bernard Shaw Epistolary stories are fascinating to me given ...
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BFF Review: Dragon Girls
One of the first shots of the documentary Dragon Girls is part David Lean and part Busby Berkeley. From a high angle we watch ...
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BFF Review: Furever
The dog on the left is dead. The owner had the dog professionally stuffed in order to cope with the loss. The dog ...
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BFF Review: Black Out
Two things struck me when the opening credits of Black Out came on: 1) there was a lot of style and flash in ...
BFF Short Film Roundup 1
Over the weekend I caught five short films at the Brooklyn Film Festival. One called Good Grief played before the feature-length documentary Furever ...
BFF Review: Mr. Angel
If someone were to tell you that Buck Angel is a porn star, you’d assume he does gay porn. Just look at the ...
BFF Short Film Roundup 2
I didn’t get to see as many films at the Brooklyn Film Festival as I’d hoped to due to other obligations and personal ...