Paul Malcolm

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Beyond the Rocks

Paul Malcolm
Milestone Films has made film history for more than 15 years thanks to the passion of its founders, Amy Heller and Dennis Doros, who distribute classic films that have been overlooked, lost or forgotten amid the cinema’s ceaseless flood of celluloid. In keeping with that mission, Doros and Heller have......
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We Jam Econo: The Story of the Minutemen

Paul Malcolm
There’ve been a lot of high-profile band documentaries in the past few years (DiG!, Metallica: Some Kind of Monster, I’m Trying to Break Your Heart, etc.), but director Tim Irwin’s We Jam Econo (2005) is different in that Irwin’s subject is the Minutemen,the greatest band in the history of the......
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Hollow City

Paul Malcolm
Writer-director Maria João Ganga’s remarkable debut is also one of the first films to emerge from Angola since the end of that country’s decades-long civil war in 2002. Set in the capital city of Luanda in 1991, a year that saw one of many short-lived lulls in the fighting, Hollow......

Track of the Cat

Paul Malcolm
Last week when Warner Bros. received the lion’s share of attention for its John Ford/John Wayne box set, Paramount quietly slipped The Batjac Suspense Collection onto the shelves, so named for Wayne’s independent production company. Under the Batjac umbrella, Wayne produced many of his later star vehicles, including The Alamo......

Smokey and the Bandit: Special Edition

Paul Malcolm
A friend said it best: “Smokey and the Bandit harks back to a time when gas prices were so low that a man could afford to take both a Trans Am and a fucking semi across an entire state as fast as he and his buddy and his dog could......
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Smokey and the Bandit: Special Edition

Paul Malcolm
{mosimage} A friend said it best: “Smokey and the Bandit harks back to a time when gas prices were so low that a man could afford to take both a Trans Am and a fucking semi across an entire state as fast as he and his buddy and his dog......

Winter Soldier

Paul Malcolm
On January 31, 1971, more than 125 Vietnam veterans presented testimony in a Detroit Howard Johnson conference room about war atrocities they had witnessed or participated in during their tours of duty. A small collective of documentary filmmakers, including Barbara Kopple, Robert Fiore and Lucy Massie Phenix, were on hand......
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Four Films by Michael Haneke

Paul Malcolm
The ripples of unease that emanate from the work of Austrian director Michael Haneke have been spreading ever wider for well over a decade now. Last year, Haneke reached his biggest audience yet with the devastating Caché. This week, Kino releases on DVD three films at the epicenter of Haneke’s......
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The Net

Paul Malcolm
In the 1960s, The Whole Earth Catalogue was the mail-order bible for those looking to drop out, wherein one could find seminal articles on how to use a computer alongside practical information on building a log cabin. In The Net, German documentary filmmaker Lutz Dammbeck pursues the divergent paths of......