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Just when you thought it was safe to go back to the multiplex...
| Films: Metroland USA The Underground Orchestra Netherlands Los Enchiladas! USA Regret to Inform USA Suckers USA Dry Cleaning France State of Dogs Mongolia Journey to the Beginning of the World Portugal The Powder Keg Yugoslavia They Come at Night USA/ El Salvador Home Page USA True Moments Sweden Opera Fanatic Italy The King of Masks China The Ogre Germany Private Confessions Sweden Rivers of Babylon Slovak Republic |
As a reminder of whom we have to thank for this cinematic treasure trove, the annual "Minnesota Shorts Showcase" includes "Al Milgrom: Last of the Red Hot Programmers," a documentary homage to the exhaustingly inexhaustible festival founder. (The "Showcase," sponsored by IFP/North, screens at Bell Auditorium on Friday at 7:00 p.m.) For 20 minutes (roughly the length of Milgrom's average voice mail message), the film observes the man in action: tooling around town in his rusty Volvo station wagon, tacking up flyers, dealing with distributors, dressing down yet another U Film Society volunteer, and banging the ceremonial gong to kick off last year's fest. What makes Al run? you ask. No doubt entire volumes could be written on the subject, but here's the short answer: What makes him run is on view at Bell Auditorium and Oak Street Cinema through May 6.
—Rob Nelson
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See also in City Pages:
Reeling In the Mpls./St. Paul International Film Festival Arts Feature, 4/14/99
Taking it All In Arts Feature, 4/14/99
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- Taking it All In (Apr 14, 1999)
- Reeling In the Mpls./St. Paul International Film Festival Ninety-three films, three projectors, and the whole wide world (Apr 14, 1999)
- Righting the Play A series of workshops at the Playwrights' Center strips the dramatic process down to author, script, actor, and audience (Apr 7, 1999)
- Welcome to the Jungle The confounding cinema of Werner Herzog thrusts Western society into the wilds of its own mind (Mar 31, 1999)
- Enter the Poet Thien-Bao Phi brings his cultural grievances and personal lamentations to the arena of competitive poetry (Mar 24, 1999)
- He That Hath Ears to Hear As a playwright, singer, and adman, Craig Wright has played to many audiences. As a divinity student, though, he'll soon perform the mother of all scripts, chapter and verse. (Mar 17, 1999)
- The Mason Jennings Line Between folk and punk, enigma and sensation, is 23-year-old singer-songwriter Mason Jennings (Mar 10, 1999)
- The Life of the Party Start with $12,000, 20 teenage entrepreneurs, and a crowd of anywhere from 200 to 2,000. Let's see you throw a better party. (Mar 3, 1999)
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- Reeling In the Mpls./St. Paul International Film Festival Ninety-three films, three projectors, and the whole wide world (Arts Feature - Apr 14, 1999)
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