FEB 2005 - Film – The Brooklyn Rail

That’s Great, That Sucks*
The Best Films of 2004

By David N. Meyer

Kill Bill: Vol. 1 was the most expensive, intelligent, graceful, bemusing, thoughtful, loving, referential, thematic, and fully realized music video ever made.

Uma Thurman and Gordon Liu in <i>Kill Bill: Vol. 2</i>, Miramax Films. Photo © 2004 Copyright Miramax Films.

exchange: Hal Hartley & Joe Maggio

By Hal Hartley and Joe Maggio

Hal Hartley’s latest film, The Girl From Monday, premiered at Sundance last month. Milk + Honey, the second film by Brooklyn’s Joe Maggio, premiered at Sundance last year and will open at the Quad on March 18.

Hal Hartley (right) directs Bill Sage (left) and Sabrina Lloyd (center) in <i>The Girl From Monday</i>.

African Diaspora Festival at BAM

By Douglas Singleton

“When pure water becomes murky, mystery is king.”

<i>Women Indies Night</i> screening and panel discussion with independent African American women filmmakers sponsored by NYWIFT. Photo courtesy of www.nyadff.org.

Docs In Sight

Documentary Is Not Fiction!

By Williams Cole

The 2005 documentary season kicked off with more of an outbreak than a bang.

Film still from <i>Army of One</i>. This documentary features Sara Miller, a soldier who enlists in the U.S. army soon after 9/11. Directed by Sarah Goodman, 2003. Distributed by Redstorm.

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