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5.29.11
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5.18.11
Weekend Preview May 19-24
Bob Dylan tributes, Deborah Voigt, Tom Paxton, Bill Kirchen, John Kirk and Trish Miller



5.18.11
Celebrating Bob Dylan's 70th Birthday in Style
Paying tribute to the greatest rock songwriter ever



5.17.11
FILM REVIEW: In a Better World and Of Gods and Men
Review by Seth Rogovoy



5.17.11
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5.12.11
Deborah Voigt Headlines Mahaiwe Gala
Opera star to sing arias, show tunes on Saturday, May 21



5.15.11
Famed Spiritual Teacher to Speak on Nonviolence
Mother Maya in free talk at Sruti Yoga in Great Barrington, Mass., on Friday May 20 at 7pm



5.12.11
Special Effects Wizard to Be Honored by Film Festival
Doug Trumbull to be Feted by BIFF



5.11.11
Weekend Preview May 12-16
Cultural Highlights of the Berkshire Weekend



6.4.09
Talk about a small world
Elaine and I grew up together, but only just recently met....



5.8.11
Berkshire Living to Cease Publication
A Farewell from Publisher Michael Zivyak



5.8.11
twiGs Branches Out
Lenox boutique launches new e-tail site



5.8.11
[MUSIC REVIEW] Avalon Quartet in Close Encounters at Mahaiwe
Review by Seth Rogovoy



5.8.11
[MUSIC REVIEW] Avalon Quartet in Close Encounters at Mahaiwe
Review by Seth Rogovoy



5.7.11
[FILM REVIEW] Bill Cunningham New York
Review by Seth Rogovoy



5.7.11
[FILM REVIEW] Bill Cunningham New York
Review by Seth Rogovoy





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BIFF UPDATE #2

5.15.09
BIFF UPDATE #2

Saturday, May 15, 2009

Prince of Broadway was gritty and complex look at downtown New York hustling life, filmed very much in Dogme style, with no extraneous music, handheld cameras, natural illumination, and acted seemingly by non-actors.

Shorts #1 program was something of a disappointment. The best films for the most part were the homegrown ones, including Sanjiban's riotously funny and cute Animal Tricks. Ben Hillman's Monty Python-esque Bach of the Antarctic, and Hal Clifford and Lou Bendrick's Cowboy Yoga -- the best part of which may have been the closing credits (again, Monty Python style).

Otherwise with the exception of Kung Pow Wow, the shorts were oddly somber to downright gross, with several of them suicide-themed or about gross bodily functions or extreme situations on one-note jokes. The best shorts tell feature-length stories in ten minutes or less; few of these did so.

Burning Plain defies truism that there are no great female roles. Fem-dominated film with Kim Basinger doing her best Sissy Spacek/Emmylou Harris impersonation, Charlize Theron, and Jennifer Lawrence. It also does the simultaneous past and present storytelling without gimmickry or flash, just narrative and great acting.

The Answer Man was a flawed but cute romance with Jeff Daniels as a beleaguered, misanthropic writer who once found God and then lost him and has been paying the price for twenty years. The alluring Lauren Graham is his lifechanging love interest.






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