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Thanksgiving, no longer one day a year

Thanksgiving's is just like home after the holiday
There are the moments when the solitary life is unbearable, but Thanksgiving is not one of them. No matter how distant you have grown from family or friends, you find a home to arrive at with a dish in hand.
By: BRIAN DUFF  |  November 26, 2008

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Winners of the Short Film Festival

Our third short-film festival crowns all new winners
A new crop of local entrants, including a professional filmmaker, won awards at the third annual Portland Phoenix Maine Short Film Festival, which turned out to be the most competitive ever ... and the most fun!
By: JEFF INGLIS  |  November 21, 2008

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Kaufman on misogyny, stool-samples

Straight poop
People either love or hate Charlie Kaufman.
By: PETER KEOUGH  |  November 04, 2008

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Knee Deep in murder

Michael Chandler on his documentary, Knee Deep
Michael Chandler’s documentary, Knee Deep is less a whodunit than a who-wouldn’t-have-done-it.
By: CHRISTOPHER GRAY  |  October 29, 2008

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Putting up W’s

Screen depictions beat around the Bush
How is it that the least popular and possibly worst chief executive in American history has inspired no lasting impersonations?  
By: PETER KEOUGH  |  October 15, 2008

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Paul Newman (1925-2008)

Remembering a movie star who turned himself into a great actor
Paul Newman, who died last weekend at the age of 83, was that rarest of creatures, a movie star who turned himself into a great actor.  
By: STEVE VINEBERG  |  October 01, 2008

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Interview: Simon Pegg

Shaun of the Dead star on losing friends, alienating people, and wanking off to Gillian Anderson
Thirty-eight-year-old British actor Simon Pegg’s US star has been on the rise since his zombie-movie parody Shaun of the Dead shuffled into multiplexes back in 2004.  
By: BRETT MICHEL  |  October 01, 2008

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Movies on the Midcoast

From simulated battlegrounds to Bristol Bay at the Camden International Film Festival
Yet again, this year’s festival tackles an admirable hodgepodge of subjects — online gaming junkies, Harry Potter fanatics, and even Cockney gangsters in London’s East End.
By: CHRISTOPHER GRAY  |  September 24, 2008

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Autumn peeves

Films with a full agenda
With pundits already reading political significance into summer blockbusters like The Dark Knight (“Is Batman a stand-in for George Bush? Discuss.”), the meatier movies of fall arrive not a moment too soon.
By: PETER KEOUGH  |  September 11, 2008

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Two days, a theme, and a prop

Overnight developing
If you see a bunch of people running around town this weekend singing and dancing, John Wayne style, you can bet they drew “Musical or Western” as their 48 Hour Film Project genre.
By: DEIRDRE FULTON  |  August 13, 2008

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Flying high

Is The Dark Knight the best movie ever?
Every summer, it seems like another superhero movie has broken some box-office record or other and made movie history.
By: PETER KEOUGH  |  July 23, 2008

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Our superheroes, ourselves

What the current crop of comic-book action movies tells us about America's identity crisis
Is there a breed of person more tenderly optimistic, more winsomely hopeful for the best, more loyal to the possibility of good, than the American summer moviegoer?
By: JAMES PARKER  |  July 09, 2008

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The ultimate balancing act

An extraordinary documentary opens the 2008 Maine International Film Festival
About 100 films deep, MIFF ’08 has intriguing offerings for cineastes of all stripes. Here’s a slice of what to look out for.
By: CHRISTOPHER GRAY  |  July 09, 2008

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Photo op?

In Errol Morris’s Standard Operating Procedure , a picture is worth a thousand words
After 11 days on the road promoting Standard Operating Procedure , his film about the Abu Ghraib prisoner-abuse scandal, Errol Morris is back in his Cambridge office.
By: PETER KEOUGH  |  May 01, 2008

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The Oscars go to Hell

The Devil knows what the nominations will be for this year’s Oscars
Maybe it’s just as well if the writers’ strike forces a cancellation of the Oscars show.
By: PETER KEOUGH  |  January 18, 2008

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Grimace and nod

SPACE Gallery highlights 2007’s overlooked documentaries
A four-film series at SPACE Gallery highlights just the sort of cinematic and stylistically ambitious documentaries the Oscars annually ignore.
By: CHRISTOPHER GRAY  |  January 09, 2008

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He’s here!

Todd Haynes talks about his Dylan movie
I’m Not There is an apt name for a bio-pic with six Bob Dylans, none of them the real one.
By: ROB NELSON  |  November 20, 2007

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Left behind

Human Rights film festival takes on the world
SPACE Gallery’s annual Human Rights Watch Traveling Film Festival, now in its sixth year, is the rare local film event as essential to movie buffs as it is to concerned citizens.
By: CHRISTOPHER GRAY  |  November 07, 2007

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Moving pictures

The second annual Portland Phoenix Maine Short Film Festival
It was a great night at One Longfellow Square, a really good spot for showing movies (including a curved wall onto which the films were projected!).
By: DEIRDRE FULTON  |  November 01, 2007

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Deep thoughts

A stunning Maine-based doc highlights third Camden International Film Festival
It’s an unassuming feature in a weak time slot set in Farmington that deserves to steal the show this year.
By: CHRISTOPHER GRAY  |  September 26, 2007
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