All posts by Chris Heller
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Pariah
Reel Affirmations 2011 Review by Chris Heller Rating: (5 out of 5) Saturday, 10/22/2011, 5:00 PM Feature presentation, $12 at Lisner Auditorium IN THE...
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Harvest
Reel Affirmations 2011 Stadt Land Fluss Review by Chris Heller Rating: (4 out of 5) Friday, 10/21/2011, 6:00 PM Feature presentation, $12 at GWU Amphitheatre German with English subt
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A Few Days of Respite
Reel Affirmations 2011 Quelques jour de répit Review by Chris Heller Rating: (2 out of 5) Monday, 10/17/2011, 9:00 PM Feature presentation, $12 at West End Cinema French with...
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Our Lips are Sealed
Reel Affirmations 2011 Review by Chris Heller Rating: (3 out of 5) Monday, 10/17/2011, 5:00 PM Feature presentation, $5 at West End Cinema AS DIRECTOR JOHN...
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Going Down in La La Land
Reel Affirmations 2011 Review by Chris Heller Rating: (2 out of 5) Friday, 10/14/2011, 9:00 PM Feature presentation, $12 at Atlas Center for the Performing Arts ...
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Au Pair, Kansas
Reel Affirmations 2011 Review by Chris Heller Rating: (4 out of 5) Friday, 10/14/2011, 5:00 PM Feature presentation, $12 at Globe Theatre WHAT DO...
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Rip-Off Artist
Say, do you like John Carpenter's The Thing? Or maybe its '50s predecessor, The Thing From Another World? I bet you'd be thrilled to hear...
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Giving Birth
It's fitting that Duncan Macmillan's Lungs is about childbirth -- as the inaugural production of the Studio Lab series, the newborn is a promising start...
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Love Story
There are plenty of films that want to be Weekend. They trickle into multiplexes around the country a few times a year, feeding into a...
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Review: 50/50
Walking the line between comedy and tragedy is tricky. How can filmmakers draw out the appropriate emotions from their audiences? When do those triggers inspire...
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Good Chance
Walking the line between comedy and tragedy is tricky. How can filmmakers draw out the appropriate emotions from their audiences? When do those triggers inspire...
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Film
In order of scheduled release date. Dates subject to change at the whim of a studio executive. SEPTEMBER DRIVE -- Ryan Gosling headlines a murderer's...
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Shorts Circuit
It's kind of amazing short films aren't more popular. The barriers that stand in the way of feature-lengths -- namely, cash, the crazy expensive cameras...
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Review: The Hold Steady at the 9:30 Club
Everybody goes to a concert to sing along with the band. But when crowds pack in to see The Hold Steady, they belt. The Brooklyn...
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Radical Faeries
A kid's imagination is terrifying. It puts fang-gnashing meanies in cellars, attributes midnight creaks and moans to wicked poltergeists, and lets God-knows-what hide underneath America's...
