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The Story of the weeping camel

by Gabriel Shapiro
Published April 1, 2004

IDirectors: Byambasuren Davaa and Luigi Falorni f you've never seen the oddly beautiful springtime of the Gobi Desert or the mildly nauseating glisten of a newly born camel, "The Story of the Weeping Camel"...

The Blonds

by Katrina Wilber
Published April 1, 2004

TArgentina, 2003 Dir. Albertina Carri o mourn is one thing, but to mourn people without remembering them is another. Argentina's "Dirty War" during the late 1970s and early 1980s left more than 25,000...

A Talking Picture

by Keri Carlson
Published April 1, 2004

ADir. Manoel de Oliveira Talking Picture" boasts a veteran director and a cast of some of the most renowned actors in the world, including Catherine Deneuve, Irene Papas and John Malkovich. Yet regrettably,...

Decasia: The State of Decay

by Gabriel Shapiro
Published April 1, 2004

TDir. Bill Morrison his is what a great avant-garde film should look like. In his tripped-out masterpiece "Decasia," Bill Morrison has provided a textbook for filmmakers just as much as he has provided...

Alexei and the Spring

by Gabriel Shapiro
Published April 1, 2004

TDir. Motohashi Seiichi he village of Budische, Belarus, doesn't immediately appear to be unique. It, like so many other villages in the former Soviet republics of Georgia and Belarus, was shaken out of...

Pirated Copy

by Tom Horgen
Published April 1, 2004

IDir. He Jianjun f you've gone to the movie theater or watched an award show lately, you've probably seen the commercials and heard the rhetoric condemning film piracy. Here's a movie that offers a somewhat...

The Corporation

Published April 1, 2004

TDir. Mark Achbar and Jennifer Abbott he Corporation" is nothing short of Earth-shattering. This is the film that you will cite as the reason you gave up your inheritance - whatever that may have been...

Yoshino’s Barber Shop

by Tom Horgen
Published April 1, 2004

UDir. Ogigami Naoko topia has its costs. And they're often not too pleasant. In "Yoshino's Barber Shop," a small Japanese town maintains its apparently idyllic routine by abiding strictly to tradition....

Dying at Grace

Published April 1, 2004

BDir. Allan King ody bags and toe tags. Catheters and bowel movements. Allan King's ghostly camera work in "Dying at Grace" centers on the disturbing minutiae of death. Filmed at the Salvation Army's Toronto...

Kops

by Niels Strandskov
Published April 1, 2004

WDir. Josef Fares hatever your idea of "Swedish film" consists of, it will probably be challenged by Josef Fares' "Kops." This amalgam of "Super Troopers" and "Mayberry RFD" couldn't have less in common...

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