“Bliss” To Open Festival

April 8, 2010 by

Currently in its fifth year, the UCSB Human Rights Film Festival -- opening tonight and wrapping up on Monday, April 26 -- is a showcase of international cinema that highlights pressing human rights i...
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“Bliss” To Open Festival

April 7, 2010 by

Currently in its fifth year, the UCSB Human Rights Film Festival -- opening tonight and wrapping up on Monday, April 26 -- is a showcase of international cinema that highlights pressing human rights i...
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Terry Gilliam’s “Parnassus” Is Quite a Trip ***

January 14, 2010 by

Visionary director Terry Gilliam ("Brazil," "Time Bandits") swings for the fences in "The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus," a mostly successful but uneven film about an ancient storyteller struggling to ...
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(“Untitled”) Review ***

November 12, 2009 by

"(Untitled)," the latest effort by "Bartleby" director Jonathon Parker, stars Adam Goldberg as an avant-garde composer whose atonal, anti-melodic music satirizes the bohemian Chelsea art scene.
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News You Can Use ****

November 5, 2009 by

In a technological world with so many outlets for transmitting information and where reporting has been reduced to a synthesis of secondary sources, two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times colu...
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New “Stepfather” Is No Replacement *

October 22, 2009 by

From the brilliant minds that brought us 2008's "brilliant" remake of "Prom Night" comes another 1980s horror-film retread that should have gone straight to DVD. Nelson McCormack's update of "The Step...
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Fertile Flaming Lips Deliver Embryonic ****

October 8, 2009 by

The Flaming Lips' latest record is Embryonic, a volatile collage of often paradoxical elements. This album of 18 tracks -- split between two discs -- is a study of oppositions: It comes across at once...
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“Star” Is Not So “Bright” ***

October 1, 2009 by

Director Jane Campion's "Bright Star," the latest of this year's Cannes selections to be given a theatrical release, is a period film based on the final years of Romantic -literarily and literally - p...
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