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Heimat Sweet Heimat

Postwar German films attempt to either understand or ignore the holocaust

By Andrea Grover
Nov 21, 2002

Somewhere between the extremes of the Third Reich propaganda films and the 1960s confrontational New German Cinema, German film had a deserved identity crisis. "After the War, Before the Wall: German Cinema 1945-1960," a new series at the Museum of Fine Arts, focuses on this therapeutic postwar era, when the...
The Diary of Rob Frank

Rob Frank uses his own life as the backdrop of his movies

By Andrea Grover
Sep 6, 2001

In Robert Frank's 1971 autobiographical film, About Me: A Musical, he makes a peculiar decision: He casts a young actress named Lynn Reyner to play his part. Reyner not only is the wrong age and sex but also the Swiss-born Frank's antithesis -- thin and delicate with a mop of...
Checking IDs at Rice

East meets west at the The Asian-American Film and Literature Festival.

By Andrea Grover
Feb 22, 2001

Now in its third year, the Rice University Asian-American Film and Literature Festival launches this weekend with a compelling lineup of films, speakers and panelists that will make you wonder how this student-run three-day showcase could be so good -- and free. Returning this year is keynote speaker Gordon Quan,...
Cinema of Insiders

Emanuel Levy's "Writing About Film" seminar

By Andrea Grover
Feb 24, 2000

Labels are misleading. This is as true in the world of film as it is in the grocery store. "Avant-garde cinema," for instance, is used to describe a now-classic -- and not very experimental -- 60-plus-year-old movement. And "independent cinema" is supposed to refer to films that are made by,...
Foot Fetish

Hudson Marquez: "High Heels and High Performance"

By Andrea Grover
Jan 6, 2000

"Is there anything better than a chick in a hot car?" Hudson Marquez asks rhetorically. "I think all women should drive in high heels." Marquez, a co-creator of Cadillac Ranch and former member of the 1970s culture-jamming collectives Ant Farm and TVTV (Top Value Television), loves hot rods and women's...

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