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"The Punk Mariachi All-Stars" (Seznec Brothers & Shervin Boloorian) play sweet songs of D.I.Y. romantic comedy in Date Number One

this is the 3rd summer since we started shooting Date Number One

Hollywood Is Talking review of Date Number One

GreenCine Daily review of Date Number One

Director Mike Tully (Cocaine Angel) Interview from September '06

Cindy Sheehan's Memorial Day letter

On Tavis Smiley: "Right to Return: New Home Movies from the Lower 9th Ward"

Wrapping up an old topic: making a living through DIY film; some tips, thoughts

Blog's gonna focus just on DNO stuff starting right now

Saw 1/2 of The Slanted Screen, good stuff

Knock.Knock review

a little GoodTimes Kid write up at Boston Globe

Saw Amir Motlagh's new short Knock.Knock :: review & interview coming up later this week

Guerrilla Film Fest DC June 1 & 2

"Ultra-indie filmmakers need to “jam econo”" & other interesting & useful thoughts at Camera Stilo post

Richard Schickel on blogging vs. print criticism

What's got John Waters, Hal Hartley & Jim Jarmusch?

DJ Spooky interview at Workbook

Saw episode I of Flying, some pre-review notes

Hal Hartley interview at Filmmaker

interesting sentence in a book by Warhol

Flying "like Sex and the City" says director Jennifer Fox

Nice LA Weekly article (from '05) re: DC DIY band The Evens

Way to go CUFF

Peter Sellars's "California Uber Alles" speech at SFIFF :: Speech also about art, democracy, Mozart, and hope in cinema

Amir Motlagh news: new Still Lover distro deal, Knock.Knock. completed

Alternative to Mumblecore: Sujewa Ekanayake, Amir Motlagh, James Spooner

Let's show some appreciation to good/favorite internet film reviewing & criticism: ChuckTryon regularly delivers well written reviews

DNO premiere 1 year anniversary party was excellent, pics later today

Flying: Confessions of a Free Woman sounds interesting

SUNDAY MAY 13 HAL HARTLEY DOUBLE BILL (Henry Fool & Fay Grim) @ PIONEER THEATER NYC!

Mission: Washington update - a print magazine is interested in writing about Date Number One

Hal Hartley on Fay Grim, at ShortEnd Magazine

Mission: Washington OR Let's see how much local press I can generate for the upcoming 1 week run of Date Number One (7/12 - 18, Kensington, MD)

Review Criticism Overkill

Update from "Angry Filmmaker" Kelley Baker: "May Dates! May Dates!"

James Spooner interview at PunkTV

New report says most Hollywood writers still white & male

Another well written review of Hannah Takes the Stairs, from ShortEnd Magazine

Mysterious ways of Jacques Rivette

On The Road movie update

Todd Verow's cellphone movie Hooks To The Left

The Huffington Post says Ed Burns's new movie Purple Violets is good

ON for '07: DNO distribution, start of 10/30 project. OFF for '07: KRIFF

on gun-weilding hobos & arty films

Will Spider Man 3 have a bigger opening weekend than Aquaman?

Oh Kay, f-i-n-a-l-l-y found a well written review of Hannah Takes the Stairs, over at Cinematical

This is no way to write a movie review

Spidey goes evil and his suit turns black. Hmmmm.

Amir Motlagh to direct feature Micro this summer :: Filmography & other work

In Search of a Midnight Kiss sounds interesting

Getting Straight sounds interesting