Filmmaker follows campaign trail home
Five years ago, Heath Eiden picked up his video camera to record the earliest days of his first child.
Then, as he put it, "our neighbor down the road decided he wanted to be president."
Former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean was off and running, Eiden trailing along behind, his camera running.
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Interview: Steve James talks about 'At the Death House Door'
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Interview: Steve James talks about 'At the Death House Door'
Slide show: Colin Covert interviews director Garth Jennings
Star Tribune movie critic Colin Covert interviews the director of "Son of Rambow" Garth Jennings about how the movie came to be.
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Pond Hockey (April 24)
Pond Hockey examines the changing culture of sports through insightful interviews with hockey stars, experts, journalists and local rink rats who are all searching the open ice for the true meaning of sport.
Blindsight (April 25)
Set against the breathtaking backdrop of the Himalayas, "Blindsight" follows the gripping adventure of six Tibetan teenagers who set out to climb the 23,000-foot Lhakpa Ri on the north side of Mount Everest. The dangerous journey soon becomes a seemingly impossible challenge — made all the more remarkable by the fact that the teenagers are blind.
Boarding Gate (April 25)
French auteur Olivier Assayas’ (Clean, Demonlover, Irma Vep) latest erotic noir-thriller Boarding Gate has an exciting international cast and another standout performance from Asia Argento as his femme fatale in this anti-thriller to upset genre rules.
Pageant (April 26)
Pageant goes behind the scenes at one of the country’s most glamorous events: the 34th Annual Miss Gay America competition.
Dean and Me (April 26)
Minnesota native Heath Eiden's film about the process candidates have to go through to run for president, following Howard Dean's 2004 campaign. (The clip is an interview by Eiden on June 3, 2003).
Roman de Gare (April 18)
Melodrama, comedy, suspense, part road movie, some western, this inventive melange from whom else but French master Claude Lelouch and the film genres he’s always loved and practiced. (In French w/Eng. subtitles)
Son of Rambow (April 19)
This fresh and inventive take on friendship, family, film heroes and the death-defying adventures of growing up in the video age begins in 1980s Britain, when young Will (Bill Milner), raised in isolation among the puritanical “Brethren”, who forbid TV and music itself, encounters something beyond his wildest fantasies: a pirated copy of Rambo: First Blood.
At the Death House Door (April 18)
A poignant, heart-rending documentary on the Rev. Carroll Pickett, a soft-spoken Texas man who served for 13 years as chaplain at the notoriously execution-happy Huntsville Prison.
The Visitor (April 17)
In actor and filmmaker Tom McCarthy’s follow-up to his award winning directorial debut "The Station Agent," Richard Jenkins (Six Feet Under) stars as Walter Vale, a disillusioned Connecticut economics professor whose life is transformed by a chance encounter in New York City.
Movie reviews
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- Review: 'My Mexican Shiva' a fresh look at formula (April 25)
- Review: 'Kings' a look back at recriminations (April 25)
- Review: 'Pond Hockey' a celebration of the rink rats
- Review: 'Boarding Gate' a must-see -- if you're into that kind of thing (April 25)
- Review: 'Jar City' good character study, whodunit (April 25)
- Review: 'Alexandra' rich on atmosphere, touching performances (April 22)
- Review: 'Edge of Heaven' intricate, intriguing (April 22)
- Review: 'The Way I Spent the End of the World' hit and miss (April 21)
- Review: 'Irina Palm' another 'sexy seniors' flick (April 21)
- Review: 'My Father, My Lord' a great work (April 21)
- Review: 'Neo-Lounge' self-indulgent, sloppy (April 20)
- Review: 'London to Brighton' disturbing, vicious, tasteless (April 20)
- Review: 'The Monastery: Mr. Vig and the Nun' a charming documentary (April 20)
- Review: 'Still Life' a beautiful film (April 20)
- Review: 'Poisoned by Polonium' intimate, passionate (April 20)
- Review: 'Woman on the Beach' a deft, beautiful portrait (April 20)
- Review: 'Tell No One' a thrilling chase (April 20)
- Review: 'Triangle' perplexing, disjointed (April 19)
- Review: 'Family Motel' conveys realities of homelessness (April 19)