September 23-29, 2004 movies Missing Links GETTING IN TOUCH: Zhao Tao in Jia Zhang-ke’s The World, a highlight of the Toronto Film Festival. In search of a theme at Toronto 2004. by Sam Adams The film festivalgoer goes not just…
September 9-15, 2004 movies It Came From Within TOO CLOSE FOR COMFORT: Vincent Gallo and Chloé Sevigny get intimate. Vincent Gallo may be a jerk, but The Brown Bunny is no jerk-off. The Brown Bunny by Sam Adams Given that…
July 29-August 4, 2004 Renter’s Guide Pet Project Pet owners often have a difficult time finding rentals. Luckily, the local SPCA has a list of apartments that allow dogs and cats in their units. It’s by no means all inclusive…
July 8-14, 2004 screen picks Screen Picks by Sam Adams Cinema India! (through Sun., July 11, $5-$6, International House, 3701 Chestnut St., 215-895-6542) Foreign-film buffs who lament the global dominance of American blockbusters, breathe a sigh of relief: It turns…
July 1- 7, 2004 screen picks by Sam Adams The Spook Who Sat by the Door (Thu., July 1, 7:30 p.m., free, New Jersey State Museum, W. State St., www.trentonfilmsociety.org) Long tarred with the blaxploitation brush, Ivan Dixon’s 1973 adaptation…
June 24-30, 2004 Snitch Work John Hall and a fellow inmate led Walter Ogrod to death row. Should the DA reopen the case? by Tom Lowenstein Disputed Evidence: The chronology of how Barbara Jean Horn’s body was dumped news fineprint:…
May 6-12, 2004 movies Welcome to the New World Culture shock: Santino Majok Chuor anticipates the journey to the U.S. Sudanese refugees face an uncertain American future in Lost Boys of Sudan. by Sam Adams As a group of Sudanese…
April 29-May 5, 2004 art Clare Naylor and Mimi Hare read books Billed as “a tale from the bottom of the Hollywood ladder,” The Second Assistant (Viking) is Clare Naylor and Philadelphia native Mimi Hare’s knowing chronicle of bad behavior…
March 4-10, 2004 movies National Defense STRIKING OUT: Ali La Pointe (Brahim Haggiag) in The Battle of Algiers. Fighting colonialism then and now. THE BATTLE OF ALGIERS by Sam Adams The Battle of Algiers (1965) may be the first sympathetic…
January 22-28, 2004 screen picks by Sam Adams Backseat Film Festival (Fri.-Sun., Jan. 23-25, Triangle Theater, 1220 N. Lawrence St., www.backseatfilmfestival.com) Plunging its flag into the frozen terrain of Northern Liberties, the Backseat Film Festival pulls over for three underground…
