Archive for October, 2010

AWFJ Women on Film - “Teenage Paparazzo” - Review by Jennifer Merin

Actor Adrian Grenier, who stars as a paparazzi-chased celebrity in Entourage, follows 14-year-old Austin Visschedyk, who actually began his career as a paparazzo shooting Grenier! Fascinating relationship between the two, and a terrific commentary on our celebrity-crazed culture. Read more>>

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AWFJ Women On Film - “Teenage Paparazzo” - Review by Cynthia Fuchs

Teenage Paparazzo establishes at least a couple of foci, namely, Adrian Grenier’s relationship with the picture-snapping press and his relationship with that relationship, as he portrays it on TV. Read more>>

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AWFJ Women on Film - “Catfish” - Review by Jennifer Merin

Yaniv Schulman, a New York photographer, met a girl named Megan via a complicated series of Facebook friendships on the Internet. Yaniv’s brother, filmmaker Ariel Schulman and his producing partner, Henry Joost, began to chronicle the budding friendship and flirtation, and over time developed this documentary, in which the three fellows go to meet Megan and find out that…well, she’s not who she has said she is. Read more>>

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AWFJ Women On Film - “Catfish” - Review by Susan Granger

Now that “The Social Network” has explored the origins of Facebook, this ‘reality’documentary of online intrigue examines one of its more bizarre encounters. Read more

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AWFJ Women on Film - “Freakonomics” - Review by Cynthia Fuchs

Freakonomics’ four sections offer various takes on the source book’s premise: what happens when you ask “a different kind of question entirely?” Read more>>

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AWFJ Women On Film - “Marwencol” - Review by Cynthia Fuchs

Marwencol shows a process of self-imagining and storytelling that reflects the intricate ways that we all understand ourselves, the worlds inside and around us. Read more>>

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AWFJ Women On Film - “Marwencol” - Review by Jennifer Merin

A remarkable documentary about Mark Hogancamp, a man who was beaten to death, revived by paramedics and, unable to remember anything about his life, built a miniature town where he acts out fantasies from his past and present life. Read more>>

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AWFJ Women On Film - “Let Me In” - Review by Cynthia Fuchs

Let Me In both tweaks and fulfills right-wingy, quasi-religious views by making the most virulent embodiment of evil a little girl. a href=”http://www.popmatters.com/pm/review/131649-let-me-in/” target=”new”>Read more>>

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