Film Search
- Jan 14, 2005
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Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession
Xan Cassavetes (daughter of John, her first name short for Alexandria) assembled this troubling video documentary about Jerry Harvey, a fanatical Los Angeles film buff who spent eight years programming the legendary pay-cable outlet the Z Channel. more...
- Jan 5, 2004
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Z Film Festival
Now in its fourth year, the Z Film Festival slides toward irrelevance with this collection of mostly unpleasant and unenlightening videos that “explore the representation of sex and aggression.” Highlights include a bloodied nude with a whiskey bottle up her vagina (Meg McCarville's Je Ne Regrette Rien), clips from Brian De Palma's Carrie interspersed with gay porn (Charles Lum's Indelible), and a bandaged mime squirting blood from her anus (Kristie and Usama Alshaibi's Convulsion Expulsion). more...
- Dec 13, 2002
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Z Film/Video Festival
Organized by local video maker Usama Alshaibi, this third annual indie festival offers an energetic collection of nine videos and two films from Paris and across the U.S. In Christina Spangler's moody and assured 16-millimeter clay animation Unearthed a dropped potato rolls into the forest and sprouts legs. more...
- Oct 26, 1985
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Z Film Festival
Most of these 28 new films and videos are aggressive, provocative, and reasonably well made. more...
- Oct 26, 1985
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Z Film Festival
Presented by NeoKino.com, a Web site for independent and experimental cinema, this diverse two-hour program offers some strong films and videos, most of them by young Chicagoans but some from Europe as well. more...
- Oct 14, 2005
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Z Film Festival: The Death of Z
The organizers of the Z Film Festival have decided to make this year's installment the last, which seems like a sound decision: the new shorts collected in the first program, “ZFF 5,” lack the vision and audacity of the greatest hits gathered in the second, “The Best of Z Fest.” Christa Conforti's new stop-motion animation Germs, about a sock-puppet monkey fascinated with its nasal residue, seems even more juvenile compared to John Goras's hilariously profane Chirpy, which screened at the inaugural fest in 2001. more...
- Oct 26, 1985
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Zabriskie Point
Though Michelangelo Antonioni's only American film was very poorly received when it was released in 1969, time has been much kinder to it than to, say, La Notte, which was made a decade earlier. more...
- Oct 23, 2008
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Zack and Miri Make a Porno (R)
“Porn has gone mainstream,” declares a character in this Kevin Smith comedy. more...
- Nov 28, 2003
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The Zafiros: Blue Madness
A 1997 biopic about the popular Cuban vocal group of the 60s, Los Zafiros. more...
- Apr 18, 2003
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Los Zafiros: Music From the Edge of Time
The Cuban vocal quartet Los Zafiros (the Sapphires) reached the height of their popularity in the 60s, when their fusion of calypso rhythms, doo-wop harmonizing, and Motown choreography won the adoration of native and European fans alike. more...
- Oct 26, 1985
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Zagreb School of Animation program
The famous Zagreb School of Animation rejected the Disney style for a looser kind of drawing, and these eight films, made between 1958 and 1980, show an admirable diversity of styles. more...
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