A CHEERLEADER BECOMES A LESBIAN WITH THE UNWITTING HELP OF HER PARENTS In But I’m a Cheerleader, Jamie Babbit (both director and storywriter) takes us on a journey to “True Directions,” a rehabilitation camp for “homosexual” children whose parents want them changed into “heterosexuals.” Entitled Make Me Over at some cinemas, we see the odyssey […]
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IT’S THE RAGE IS NOMINATED FOR PEACE AWARD Originally on cable television in 1999 as All the Rage, the feature film It’s the Rage, released in Hollywood on July 7 and directed by James D. Stern, has two heavy bookends sandwiching a story about how several people die because of the easy availability of handguns.
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A GLADIATOR FINDS VIETNAM ON THE DANUBE In the year 167 a.d., the first full-scale barbarian attack on Rome destroyed aqueducts and irrigation conduits, but the army of emperor Marcus Aurelius repelled the invaders. In 176, Marcus Aurelius and his son Commodus entered Rome after a campaign north of the Alps in which they were
A GLADIATOR FINDS VIETNAM ON THE DANUBE In the year 167 a.d., the first full-scale barbarian attack on Rome destroyed aqueducts and irrigation conduits, but the army of emperor Marcus Aurelius repelled the invaders. In 176, Marcus Aurelius and his son Commodus entered Rome after a campaign north of the Alps in which they were
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SUNSHINE NOMINATED FOR AWARDS ON DEMOCRACY AND HUMAN RIGHTS “Politics has made a mess of our lives.” These words sum up the three-hour-long saga Sunshine, a film about five generations of a Jewish family in Hungary named Sonnenschein (German for “sunshine”) over the past one hundred or so years that has some parallels with Alex
SUNSHINE NOMINATED FOR AWARDS ON DEMOCRACY AND HUMAN RIGHTS “Politics has made a mess of our lives.” These words sum up the three-hour-long saga Sunshine, a film about five generations of a Jewish family in Hungary named Sonnenschein (German for “sunshine”) over the past one hundred or so years that has some parallels with Alex
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IT’S THE RAGE IS NOMINATED FOR PEACE AWARD Originally on cable television in 1999 as All the Rage, the feature film It’s the Rage, released in Hollywood on July 7 and directed by James D. Stern, has two heavy bookends sandwiching a story about how several people die because of the easy availability of handguns.
CATFISH IN BLACK BEAN SAUCE IS NOMINATED AS BEST FILM EXPOSÉ Catfish in Black Bean Sauce is directed, written, and acted by Sino-Vietnamese Chi Moui Lo, who left Vietnam at the age of six, was sponsored by the Jewish League of America and grew up with his nine brothers and three sisters in Philadelphia before
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CATFISH IN BLACK BEAN SAUCE IS NOMINATED AS BEST FILM EXPOSÉ Catfish in Black Bean Sauce is directed, written, and acted by Sino-Vietnamese Chi Moui Lo, who left Vietnam at the age of six, was sponsored by the Jewish League of America and grew up with his nine brothers and three sisters in Philadelphia before
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LUMINARIAS NOMINATED FOR BEST EXPOSÉ OF THE YEAR 2000 Because Latinas tend to play a stereotypical role in most mainstream films, the movie Luminarias is a window into a subculture that opens and brings fresh air in a manner similar to how The Joy Luck Club (1993) opened the eyes of filmviewers to the difficulties