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Cochochi
After graduating from elementary school, two Mexican brothers are sent on an errand to deliver medicine to some relatives. They disobey their grandfather by taking his horse for the journey. Along the way they get lost; then they lose the horse and, finally, each other. The boys (and the audience) spend the rest of the movie searching. Read more...
The End
It might as well been called I Loved the End of World War II!, this irksomely grainy, black-and-white documentary about a collective of East End, London, gangsters, or as they prefer, “villains.” Read more...
Women in Boxes
By Josh Bell
Slight but entertaining—the documentary Women in Boxes takes a look at the unsung heroes of magic acts: the assistants. Female assistants of all ages, from a woman who came from a circus family and started assisting her magician father in the 1950s to younger second-generation assistants who hope to take center stage as magicians themselves. Read more...
In the beginning, there was CineVegas
By Josh Bell
These days, CineVegas is among the fastest-growing film festivals in the country, named by Variety in 2006 as one of the Top 5 “festival gems” and attracting more and more high-profile celebrities, filmmakers and press coverage each year. Ten years ago (December 10-13, 1998), the first CineVegas was held at Bally’s, with satellite events at the Huntridge and Gold Coast. Read more...
The Return of “Them!”
By Ken Miller
My love of movies began with the monster genre, specifically those shown during the “Creature Features” on Saturday afternoons in the 1970s. Dracula, Frankenstein and the Mummy were all great company, but my real fascination was anything featuring a large (insert insect/animal/human) attacking miniature cities until a (insert scientist/army guy/innocent-looking blonde) saved the day. Read more...
Slow and steady
By Josh Bell
In a cramped office on the UNLV campus, filled with books and monitors and computers and DVDs, Francisco Menendez is conferencing via Skype with editors in LA working on a movie he directed. But it’s not Primo, the film 15 years in the making that Menendez will finally premiere at this year’s CineVegas film festival. It’s even older than that, a movie that the filmmaker shot 20 years ago and sent off to an LA lab to be processed. Read more...
Chelsea on the Rocks
By Jeffrey M. Anderson
Maverick director Ferrara may not seem like a documentary kind of guy—doing research, interviewing people, following up on leads, etc. Yet Ferrara found a way to adapt his ramshackle style to the documentary format, and his new Chelsea on the Rocks works spectacularly. Read more...
Taking a stand
By the time Hank Greenspun calls out Sen. Joseph McCarthy from the podium at the War Memorial Building in Las Vegas, you’re hooked. Yep. Like the man it is centered on, the documentary Where I Stand is great theater. The documentary moves at a rapid clip, and Greenspun’s scrap with McCarthy is a just one glimpse into his personal tenacity. Read more...
