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November 2007

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• 11.27.07
  IDFA Screens Celia Maysles Debut Film ‘Wild Blue Yonder’, Made Without Uncle Albert’s Blessing Jay CcloseAuthor: Jay C Name: Jay C
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  About: Jay loves the films of Werner Herzog, Errol Morris and The Maysles, and is currently in production on his own first feature-length documentary Beauty Day.
  
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  Fans of the Maysles brothers films will be interested to hear that the late David Maysles daughter Celia has followed in her father and uncle's respective footsteps, debuting her first documentary feature, 'Wild Blue Yonder' (not to be confused with Werner Herzog's sci-fi masterpiece of the same title) at this years IDFA film festival. The interesting part is the controversy surrounding her film, which is described as a daughter trying to uncover information about her enigmatic father who passed on when she was only seven. Here's the synopsis from the IDFA site: The brothers Albert and David Maysles are known ...
• 11.25.07
  Review – The Jesus Guy Jay CcloseAuthor: Jay C Name: Jay C
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  The Jesus Guy Directed by Sean Tracey For more info, visit www.thejesusguy.com Director Sean Tracey's directorial debut asks one simple question; what would the Jesus guy do? Well for starters, he would do without any modern amenities, including money and shoes. He'd trade in his blue jeans and jacket for a robe, and carry a copy of the Bible, preaching the good word to whom ever is willing to listen. Having said that, I suppose the second question 'The Jesus Guy' asks is the most important one. Why? Make no mistake, the title subject of this film does not think he's Jesus. Nor ...
• 11.23.07
  DVD Review – Helvetica Jay CcloseAuthor: Jay C Name: Jay C
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  Helvetica Directed by Gary Hustwit Distributed by Plexifilm Initially I saw Helvetica as a sort of challenge, both for the filmmaker and the viewer. Making a feature length documentary about a font is no simple task, and sitting through one as an audience member could have proven to be even tougher. Luckily, director Gary Hustwit has risen to the challenge and succeeded in managing to create an interesting look at the world's most printed typeface, all the while providing us with some pretty beautiful images. Oddly enough, I went in to this film confident that the subject matter would hold up. I'll admit ...
• 11.22.07
  Vice Interviews Werner Herzog Jay CcloseAuthor: Jay C Name: Jay C
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  Just recently I was given the heads about a recent Vice magazine interview with Werner Herzog. I guess he's doing a press tour for his documentary film 'Encounters at the End of the World', however this interview seems to focus mostly on Rescue Dawn. More specifically, the controversy surrounding his re-telling of Dieter Dengler's amazing story, and the certain liberties he may have taken to bring it to the big screen. Herzog addresses the fact that certain members of Dengler's family have spoken out against his film: "I understand that the family of Eugene DeBruin see him differently to the way ...
• 11.19.07
  DVD Review – Sun Dogs Jay CcloseAuthor: Jay C Name: Jay C
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  Sun Dogs Directed by Andrea Stewart Distributed by Palm Pictures Official Sun Dogs Website The intentions of Andrea Stewart's documentary film 'Sun Dog's' are pretty clear; please the audience. How can it not? It's one of those inspirational fish-out-of-water stories in which incredible odds are overcome through the will and determination of some good hearted folks who simply want to make their country proud. Also, it's got dogs! Jamaican dogs! And Jimmy Buffet! The film tells the story of the Jamaican dog sled team. (easily confused with the now infamous 'Cool Runnings' Jamaican bob sled team. No John Candy this ...
• 11.15.07
  The Movie Club Podcast – An In-Depth Look at ‘Gimme Shelter’ and ‘Duck, You Sucker’ Jay CcloseAuthor: Jay C Name: Jay C
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  Hey guys. I thought some of you might be interested in this new podcast myself and Sean have been taking part in with some other great movie sites. 'The Movie Club Podcast' consists of, as I'd mentioned, myself and Sean from Film Junk, Kurt from Twitch.net and the Cinecast podcast, Andrew from Movie Patron/Cinecast and Marina from Mad About Movies. The show works like a book club, in that we pick two movies in advance and hope that the listeners check them out so that they can follow along with the show as we go into some good discussion about ...

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