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Written by Mike Schulz
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Tuesday, 31 January 2006 18:00 |
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How nice is too nice? The question arises after viewing two films written and directed by author and filmmaker Max Allan Collins. Collins, a Muscatine resident, is the author of the graphic novel Road to Perdition, along with dozens of other books.
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Written by Mike Schulz
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Tuesday, 10 January 2006 18:00 |
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Years before he became a filmmaker, writer-director David Riker worked as a photojournalist, and found himself especially haunted and moved by the plight of immigrants in Manhattan’s Latin American neighborhoods.
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Written by Mike Schulz
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Tuesday, 27 December 2005 18:00 |
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My annual challenge in composing a list of the year’s best movies almost never lies in deciding what to list. It lies in deciding when to list. As every movie fan knows, film studios – both majors and independents – generally unleash their most prominent Academy Award hopefuls (and, oftentimes, most interesting works) at the end of December, giving these films their best chance at being remembered, and potentially embraced, by the notoriously forgetful Academy.
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Written by Jeff Ignatius
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Tuesday, 20 December 2005 18:00 |
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Technically, Scott Beck won mtvU’s “Best Film on Campus” contest earlier this month. You’d just never know it from talking to him. Beck’s trailer for his feature film University Heights won the competition – he wrote and directed the movie – but he never claims the project exclusively as his.
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Written by Mike Schulz
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Tuesday, 25 October 2005 18:00 |
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Citing “the cost of film rentals and insurance” and “really low” attendance, Mike Reid, director of the Open Cities Film Society, announced that the organization was discontinuing its New York City Film Series at Davenport’s Figge Art Museum, nine weeks and eight films ahead of schedule.
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