Articles by Travis Mackenzie Hoover

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  The Prisoner, or: How I Planned to Kill Tony Blair

  Petra Epperlein and Michael Tucker

  PUBLISHED Mar 19, 2007

  Depending on your point of view, this documentary either solves the problems of a great interview that lacks support footage or tackles the...

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  Radiant City

  Gary Burns and Jim Brown

  PUBLISHED Mar 19, 2007

  Waydowntown’s Gary Burns and broadcaster Jim Brown turn their attention to the horror that is urban sprawl. Adopting a documentary pose, it...

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  Remembering Arthur

  Martin Lavut

  PUBLISHED Mar 19, 2007

  This is an achingly sad portrait of Arthur Lipsett, the Canadian experimental filmmaker who shot to international fame with his 1961 Oscar-...

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  Requiem

  Hans-Christian Schmidt

  PUBLISHED Mar 19, 2007

  Though this film is based on the same case that inspired The Exorcism of Emily Rose, it’s worlds apart from that horror romp in terms of bi...

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  Severance

  Christopher Smith

  PUBLISHED Mar 19, 2007

  This UK horror romp has its tongue planted only halfway in cheek; it keeps jumping between serious genre entry and jokey free-for-all, and...

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  Shortbus

  John Cameron Mitchell

  PUBLISHED Mar 19, 2007

  Much has been made of the explicit sex in this, John Cameron Mitchell’s follow-up to Hedwig and the Angry Inch, but it never seems gratuito...

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  Summer Palace

  Lou Ye

  PUBLISHED Mar 19, 2007

  This is sort of a comeback for Lou Ye, whose previous Purple Butterfly was beautiful but impenetrable; it’s too bad the new film’s only hal...

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  Syndromes and a Century

  Apichatpong Weerasethakul

  PUBLISHED Mar 19, 2007

  Thai upstart Apatichatpong Weerasethakul has always been a bit of a head scratcher, especially for those married to traditional narrative....