Email Author Rob Nelson

Awards

• 2008 - Page One Contest/Minnesota Society of Professional Journalists, published July 4, 2007

  "L.A. Plays Itself"

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2007 Stories by Rob Nelson

• Surge This

  published August 2, 2007

  Masterfully edited and cumulatively walloping, Charles Ferguson’s No End in Sight turns the well-known details of our monstrously... More >>

• Eli Roth: The Torturer Talks

  published June 7, 2007

  {mosimage} “I think the public doesn’t care about reviews,” says Eli Roth, writer-director of Hos... More >>

• Paprika

  published May 31, 2007

  Based on a serialized novel by Yasutaka Tsutsui, this loopy anime from director Satoshi Kon (Millennium Actress) isn’t a movie that... More >>

• Academy Award-Nominated Documentary Shorts

  published March 1, 2007

  Split more or less neatly into pairs, the four short Oscar-nominated docs in this program prove again that the old style-versus-substance... More >>

• Glastonbury: The Sound and the Filth

  published February 22, 2007

  {mosimage} At a recent Sundance panel discussion called “The Times, Did They A-Change?,” rock-doc mak... More >>

• Norbit

  published February 8, 2007

  Two Nutty Professor movies and Eddie Murphy still hasn’t gotten the split-personality shtick out of his system. Original nut Jerry... More >>

• Dissent for Sale

  published February 1, 2007

  Even by the lacerating standards of recent Sundance docs Why We Fight and Iraq in Fragments, the nonfiction at this year’s... More >>