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| Issue #6 - Aug/Sept 2006 |
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| "Sophie" Comes to Dixie |
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News & Notes: "Sophie" makes Dixie debut
Making its Georgia
debut at the Dixie Film Festival is Saving
Sophie. The off-beat comedy sees four sisters, ranging in personalities
from prudish to uninhibited to downright wacky, trying to keep their “fragile&rdqu ...
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| Leaving You Breathless |
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Flashback/Flashforward: Jean-Luc Godard
Jean-Luc Godard’s Breathless (À bout de souffle) is near the top of a not-so-short list of films that cinephiles and filmmakers are required to see. Released in 1960, its story conceived by François Truffa ...
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| Capote 2: Electric Boogaloo |
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Review: "Infamous"
I forgot I was watching an actor. That’s how good Toby Jones
is as Truman Capote in Infamous, writer/director Douglas McGrath’s new
rendition of George Plimpton’s book about the pivotal years in Capote&rsq ...
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 | Cover Story: POPfilms
Through the years that followed the explosion of independent, digital filmmaking in Atlanta, POPfilms, a collective comprised of Jacob Gentry, Dave Bruckner, Dan Bush and Alex Motlagh, have ascended to the forefront of the ne ...
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 | The Blog: RIFF Uncovered
So you weren't able to attend the Rome International Film Festival this past weekend? Not to worry. We have plenty of coverage of the much talked about four-day event. Get ready to hear about screenings, parties, special ...
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 | On Set: "Ricky Cooper"
Short films rarely get exposure. Whether that is good or bad
depends on your perspective. However, for aspiring directors and up and coming
actors, short films often fill a need that can be fed easily and abundantly
when d ...
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 | Southern Hospitality: Come Round by Rome
Have you been to Rome? How about Underground? As I pieced together our sixth issue of CinemATL, I started thinking how important these local festivals are to the success of our local film industry. Most people think of the ...
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 | Establishing Shot: Westville
Westville, "Georgia's Working 1850 Town," is a little-known secret tucked away just 130 miles southeast of Atlanta, near the village of Lumpkin. Talk about a ready-made period film location! We picked practica ...
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 | News & Notes: Faith On Film
For most indie filmmakers, making and completing an independent feature is a miracle. For Albany-based Sherwood Pictures, "miracle" is more than just a figure of speech. Some time back, Alex and Stephen Kendrick, ...
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 | Exposition: Tax Incentives, Part III
In this, our third and last installment of our series on the mysteries of film tax incentives, we explore the incentives being offered to filmmakers by governments from Arizona to Canada to Romania, and find out why movies co ...
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 | News & Notes: "Back to Brisbane"
They're called the Stolen Generation, thousands of Aboriginal children taken from their homes, some under the guise that they were being neglected and still others under the pretense that their people were destined to die out ...
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 | News & Notes: The Winners' Circle
Following the awards ceremony and closing night screening of the AFF, I had a chance to talk briefly with three of the festival's award winners: John Maxwell - Best Actor, Oh, Mr. Faulkner, Do You Write?, Veronica Diaferi ...
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