All posts by Travis Crawford
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The 10 Greatest Rockumentaries of All-Time
Not very many rock concert documentaries are chosen to serve as the opening night attraction of the prestigious Berlin International Film Festival. Then again, not...
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Alejandro Jodorowsky Remains the Godfather of the Midnight Movie
Since the dawn of home video, the unavailability of two cult classics by Chilean director Alejandro Jodorowsky—the legendary midnight movie favorite El Topo (1970) and...
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Sweet Cinema 16
Short films are so rarely seen outside of the festival circuit that any alternative method of distribution is welcome, and DVD has long seemed to...
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Mixed Reviews: Guilty Pleasures
Perhaps the most futile sin of all is envy, and to this I must plead guilty, as I am jealous of the career of journalist...
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Terry Zwigoff’s Ghost World
Director Terry Zwigoff’s 1994 film Crumb garnered a degree of critical acclaim and audience support that typically proves elusive for other documentary moviemakers. Yet Zwigoff — about...
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Lars von Trier: The Natural
Lauren Bacall and Lars von Trier on the set of Dogville (2004) If you were to ask any moviemaker with a clue to list the...
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Liz Garbus Gets Out of Prison
Not often does one find a young documentary moviemaker carving a clearly defined niche early in her career, but such is the case with Liz...
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The Best & Worst of 2002
There weren’t any parades or celebrations—except maybe in the hearts of retailers—but last year marked the silver anniversary of the home video market. From one...
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Foreign Genre Titles
The sheer number of overseas films now available on DVD in the US is staggering, yet most DVD enthusiasts still identify those releases through traditional...
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Finding Frances McDormand: The Actress Proves That Age is No Match for Talent
Along with two feature film projects that will see release this year, actor Frances McDormand also appears as an interview subject in the new documentary...
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Inside the Issue: Acting
Things I’ve Learned as a Moviemaker: Richard Dreyfuss
American Graffiti, Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Stand By Me, Mr. Holland’s Opus… even while reading like a what’s what of cinema, those titles are just a handful...
1Inside the Issue: Directing
Cold Piece of Work: Richard Linklater Braves Greenland Hurricanes for Where’d You Go, Bernadette
Richard Linklater’s Where’d You Go, Bernadette opens with the answer to its titular question. In an impressively executed overhead shot, the camera gazes down onto placid Antarctic waters as...
Inside the Issue: How To
How They Did It: The Farewell Writer-Director Lulu Wang Shares Secrets to Turning Your Life Story into a Memoir Movie
The week before production started on The Farewell—my sophomore feature about a young woman (Billi, played by Awkwafina) and her family’s attempts to keep their grandmother’s cancer diagnosis hidden...