7.15.10
FILM REVIEW: I Am Love
Review by Seth Rogovoy of Berkshire Living Magazine
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FILM REVIEW: Please Give
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He's Your Handyman
Call Peter Vernon for just about anything you need done around the house or garden
6.3.10
Prime Minister Netanyahu's Statment Regarding the Gaza Blockade Action
4.21.10
FILM REVIEW: Hannah Takes the Stairs (2007)
Review by Seth Rogovoy of Berkshire Living Magazine
4.17.10
CONCERT REVIEW: Jakob Dylan at the Egg, Albany, N.Y.
Review by Seth Rogovoy of Berkshire Living Magazine
4.16.10
BOOK REVIEW: The Ask by Sam Lipsyte
Review by Seth Rogovoy of Berkshire Living Magazine
4.16.10
MUSIC REVIEW: Shawn Colvin at the Mahaiwe
Review by Seth Rogovoy of Berkshire Living Magazine
4.16.10
FILM REIVEW: Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
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12.29.08
Palestinians Need Israel to Win
WALL ST JOURNAL: If Hamas gets away with terror once again, the peace process will be over.
2.18.10
Community Radio Station Gets Full-Power License
WBCR to become regional powerhouse in three years
2.15.10
[Eagle Watch] Whoops! They did it again.
Berkshire Eagle headline contradicts story
2.11.10
FILM REVIEW: Crazy Heart
by Seth Rogovoy of Berkshire Living Magazine
1.20.10
The Filibuster Fiasco
The majority party must wield the reins of power delivered unto it by the people
1.14.09
Weekend Cultural Highlights 1.15-1.18
by Seth Rogovoy of BERKSHIRE LIVING Magazine
1.14.09
Weekend Cultural Highlights 1.15-1.18
by Seth Rogovoy of BERKSHIRE LIVING Magazine
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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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