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The missing facts in 'United 93'
From: Frank Cecrle, South Bend, IN
From: Frank Cecrle, South Bend, IN
From: Mike Casey, Cranston, RI
A disturbing image of frenetic violence and menace -- and some sensuality, if you're into the whole Cronenbergian "Crash" thing. You may not have noticed one of the most exciting blurbs appearing in ads for "Mission: Impossible III." It reads:…
Philip Seymour Hoffman is the bad guy in "M:I:III." "Sure to be one of the best films of the year." -- Jeffrey Lyons (on "The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio") "Anthony Hopkins gives one of his finest, most endearing performances…
"Junebug" director (and still photographer!) Phil Morrison at the Overlooked. (Photo by Jim Emerson) At several moments during the Eighth Overlooked Film Festival, I thought I had been transported to a time in which the greatest artists of the movies…
"M:I:III": To see or not to see? Quick: When you think "Tom Cruise," what's the first thing that pops into your mind? Tabloid celebrity? Love-struck happy dad? Couch-jumper? Noted skeptic and scholar of the history of psychology and psychopharmacology? Censor?…
The thing about speaking truth to power is that the powerful don't really like it all that much. That was apparent at the White House Correspondents Dinner Saturday night, when Stephen Colbert of Comedy Central's satirical "The Colbert Report" (basically…
Q. I think you may be onto something with your critique of "The Wild," when you say the animals fall into the Uncanny Valley of being too realistic. I think it may extend beyond the lip-syncing. The day I saw…
Ramin Bahrani and Ahmad Razvi after the screening of "Man Push Cart" at the Overlooked Film Festival. "Man Push Cart": Alfred Hitchcock supposedly said that while most movies are a slice of life, his were a slice of cake. He's…
University of Illinois President B. Joseph White (center), his wife Mary (left) and volunteer host Judy Tolliver (right) outside the Virginia Theatre. So many movies and filmmakers and conversations, so little sleep. Well, that's a film festival for you. I…
