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Films of Mann blend technique, texture

By Doug Strassler | November 2, 1999

One of year's most anticipated films hits theaters Friday. Michael Mann's "The Insider," starring Al Pacino and Russell Crowe, provides a glimpse into the behind-the-scenes machinations of a "60 Minutes" exposé of the tobacco industry that never made it on the air. This incendiary film is ruffling some serious feathers: "60 Minutes" executive producer Don Hewitt and chief correspondent Mike Wallace are huffing that "The Insider" portrays them unfairly (Wallace called the movie "such bulls-" in the Sept.

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Incubus amazes with thoughtful edge

By Nick West | October 29, 1999

After participating in both Ozzfest and the Family Values tour last year, it is a wonder that Incubus hasn't achieved the same level of stardom as Orgy or Limp Bizkit.

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Pilots soar past flavor of the week status

By Steve Cooper | October 29, 1999

Heroin has become to Scott Weiland what the Stone Temple Pilots' new album, "No. 4," will soon become to every rock and roll CD collection - a sheer necessity. But somehow, between subpoenas, hearings and arraignments, the smack-addicted lead singer, along with guitarist Dean DeLeo, bassist Robert DeLeo and drummer Eric Kretz, managed to lay down enough material to complete the album before his trip to the sin bin.

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Local bands provide musical safe haven

By Heather Johnson | October 29, 1999

While costume parties, horror movies and haunted houses tend to dominate Halloween festivities, Motherstone Productions offers a gala this weekend that concentrates more on the "treat" aspect of candy-lovers' favorite holiday. Tonight, at the Charlottesville Performing Arts Center, Nickeltown, Mississippi Tom & the Mudcats, Afrikan Drum Festival and numerous other native Charlottesville talents will perform at "Gimme Shelter," part of a project that will benefit the Shelter for Help in Emergency (SHE). The event also serves as a CD release party for SHE's newly-issued compilation disc. The Shelter CD reads like a Trax greatest hits list, featuring over 20 local artists such as the Dave Matthews Band, John McCutcheon, John D'earth, Baaba Seth, Van Devon, Sharon Worrell, The Secret, Cynthia Burke, Claire Quilty and many others.

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Spreading the Panic

By John Bylander | October 26, 1999

Widespread Panic's lead guitarist, Jim Houser, has a simple explanation for the band's more succint, less jam-oriented latest offering: "We weren't out to change reputations.

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Girls examine new territory on 'Social'

By Rachel Alberico | October 23, 1999

In a time when manufactured bubblegum pop artists dominate the airwaves, it's nice to know that two folksy chicks from Georgia still know how to rock. In their seventh and most recent album, "Come on Now Social," the Indigo Girls prove that music goes beyond 17-year-old Barbie clones who can dance.

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'Fight': frenzy of brutality

By Ben Nuckols | October 23, 1999

"Fight Club" is a movie to endure, not to enjoy. But it may well merit a second viewing. David Fincher's brutal examination of the fractured male psyche batters you till you're numb.

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Fatal Vision

By Michael Gillespie | October 22, 1999

Nobody ever said that Stanley Kubrick was an optimist. With "Dr Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb," Kubrick's glass is not merely half empty: It's been blown off the face of the Earth.

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'TechnoVisions' explores impact of cinematic innovation

By Ben Nuckols | October 22, 1999

Film festivals are usually seen as events for cineastes, not movie lovers. Both groups share a passion for cinema, but entertainment isn't enough for festival crowds: They like to discuss, deconstruct and disseminate. But with the help of featured guest Stan Winston, a renowned makeup and creature effects artist (not to mention a University graduate), the 12th annual Virginia Film Festival is turning that elitist notion around, opening the Festival with a screening of "Aliens." Winston designed the title creatures, along with the Terminator and a host of other memorable figures. Film snobs, take cover.

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Film endures as sign of the 'Times'

By Adam Reno | October 22, 1999

Immortality is a powerful concept. For any individual, work or event to achieve this status, it not only must be exceedingly brilliant, but also must transcend its own time period, capturing the universal emotions and aesthetics of each subsequent generation.

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Keaton defines war with humor

By Michael Gillespie | October 22, 1999

Modern audiences just won't stand for it. Full of simple plot lines, overly dramatic play-acting and dated jokes that just aren't funny anymore, silent films can't entertain the more grown-up, intelligent audiences of today.

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'Circuity' shocks underground

By Brian Haluska | October 22, 1999

The realm of electronic music is simply a misunderstood genre. Almost every time I attempt to indoctrinate supposed "dance" music fans about the artists they should take a good look at, they shrink back into the narrow world of Top 40 "dance" hits.

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'Dial M for Murder': taking suspense to a new dimension

By James Tribe | October 22, 1999

How do you commit the perfect murder? Do you strangle your victim, as Orson Welles suggests in "Touch of Evil"? Do you switch murders with another person to eliminate motives, as Bruno Anthony proposes in "Strangers on a Train"? In "Dial M for Murder," Tony Wendice (Ray Milland) thinks he has a better idea: Blackmailing someone into committing the murder for him. "Dial M for Murder" has been overshadowed in the Alfred Hitchcock canon by his other masterpieces, such as "Rear Window" and "Psycho." Yet it remains one of his more suspenseful and elaborate works, despite taking place almost entirely on one set.

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Herskowitz promotes new technology for film future

By Rachel Alberico | October 22, 1999

In an era where the line between science fiction and reality is at times ambiguous, it is no surprise that this year's Virginia Film Festival theme is titled "TechnoVisions." In addition to several other technology-related events that will take place at the University, the 12th Annual Virginia Film Festival will offer an artistic glimpse into different perceptions of all that is high tech. Richard Herskowitz, the Festival's director, said he believes that this year's theme will not only reveal technology's role in our society, but also will document the different ways in which technology influences the film industry.

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'Millionaire': man-hunting in the brave new world of widescreen

By Ben Nuckols | October 22, 1999

Lauren Bacall, Marilyn Monroe and Betty Grable are pretty, all right, but when the CinemaScope image seduces you, it's the beginning of a love affair that lasts a lifetime. Rarely has a movie benefited from more star power than "How to Marry a Millionaire," and even more rarely have the stars been so upstaged by the screen on which they appear.

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