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On the Wheels of Steel
For the DJs of Pirate Radio, the music they play is everything. And, for the club DJs of today, it’s also true that their passion for the tracks they play is all-consuming. So while The Count, Dr. Dave and Midnight Mark don’t really engage with...
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Filmmakers' Tips on Green Filmmaking
Filmmakers offer up ecological ideas.
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Nothing but Fear Itself
Five horror writers pick scary films.
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High on Film
Many writers from Thomas de Quincy to William Burroughs have attempted to describe in prose the strange sensation of being on drugs. Despite some surreal and soaring passages, few literary renditions have ever been able to produce the sensory overload...
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Comedians
A stand-up comic attempting to parlay his onstage charisma from comedy club to silver screen is about as easy a transition as a baseball player trying out for the NFL. Certain innate skills will translate, but success is in no way guaranteed. That's what...
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Projectionists and Theater Managers
Between school recess, vacations and all the new movies in theaters, most of us watch a lot of movies each summer. Projectionists and theater managers, however, really watch a lot of movies. Gone are the days in which blockbusters opened in June and...
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Sin Nombre's Westerns
While Sin Nombre brings a story of hope to the thousands of brutal tales about immigration from Central America to the United States, it also reinvents the western––our most classic genre of people striking out for a better life. The...
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Portland Bands
Certain places seem to become magnets for the bohemian indie musician. The most famous, of course, is New York City – and specifically the borough of Brooklyn – but Portland also holds a seemingly irresistible lure to kids with guitars who...
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The Magicians
Moviegoers are used to experiencing magic. Sword-bearing heroes flying through the air, villains mutating into horrific monsters, portals opening into other times and dimensions are all part of a film lover’s daily experience. But while...
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San Francisco Movies
Mark Twain wrote in 1865, “San Francisco is a city of startling events. Happy is the man whose destiny it is to gather them up and record them in a daily newspaper!” Much the same thing could be said for filmmakers today. Since silent...
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What Photographers See
Obviously film and photography are close relatives; both use film—or used to––and a camera to capture the world. But the way they tell stories makes all the difference. The absolute singularity and stasis of a photograph freezes a...
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Designers on Design in Film
Obviously films tell stories about people. But they also tell stories about places — homes, offices, castles, prisons, dreams. It falls to the production designer and art director to work with the director to create those spaces. (To learn about...
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Campaign Trail
In less than a month, the Democrats and Republicans will be getting their party started. From August 25-28, the Democratic National Convention will roll out their eco-friendly gathering in Denver. A few days later, from September 1 to 4, the Republican...
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City Confidential
"Location, location, location," is the sage advice given by Sylvia Miles playing a grizzly real estate agent in Wall Street, a film whose title discloses both its address and theme. In most films, location is as significant an element as character and...
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Tony's Favorite Musicals
The relationship between Broadway and Hollywood — or more precisely the Broadway musical and the film musical — has been a long, passionate, sometime embittered, often co-dependent affair. Originally Hollywood just took and took —...
