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Film Review: “Salad Days: The Birth of Hardcore Punk in the Nation’s Capital”

March 31, 2015
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When no-one was looking, Ian MacKaye and a group of young people like him created one of American alternative music’s most important and unique scenes.

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Fuse Film Review: “An Honest Liar” — Cutting Charlatans Down to Size

March 18, 2015
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The puckish, irrepressible personality of James Randi — magician, escape artist, debunker of seers, psychics, and all things paranormal — is at the zesty heart of this memorable documentary.

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Fuse Remembrance: A Tribute to Albert Maysles

March 9, 2015
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The late Albert Maysles once said: “I don’t see, frankly, trying to make a film to create better understanding. Our motivations for making films aren’t intellectual ones.”

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Film Review: Listening to Voices from the “Underground” — Once Again

March 5, 2015
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Underground director Emile de Antonio saw films as “a way to make art out of political raw material.”

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Fuse Film Review: 2015 Oscar-Nominated Documentary Shorts — A Spotlight on Heroism

February 6, 2015
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These films demonstrate what’s often so great about documentaries: here’s where you find real courage and everyday heroism, and not in mythic, muscular, blockbusters.

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Film Review: “We Always Lie to Strangers” — One Part of America, Singing

November 29, 2014
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These are good people who have grown up playing country and pop music and are committed to giving the people what they want.

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Film Review: “Hoax_Canular” — Teen Prophets Turn to YouTube to Warn of Doomsday

November 1, 2014
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Hoax_Canular contains many troubling glimpses into private worlds, intimate visions of radical insecurity that are baffling, frightening, and flat-out bizarre.

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Film Review: “Unorthodox” — A Mixed Bag at the Arlington International Film Festival

October 29, 2014
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Unorthodox teases the audience with the come-on that it will be a highly unusual documentary about religion and individual transformation..

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Film Review: “The Class of ’92” — An Excellent Documentary on Six Young Men and the Miracle Years of Manchester United

October 27, 2014
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Filmmakers Ben and Gabe Turner also successfully place the story of Manchester United’s rise in the larger context of what was happening in Great Britain at the time.

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Film Review: “The Irish Pub” — A Too Polite Homage to the Old-fashioned Gaelic tavern

October 26, 2014
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So what’s the verdict on The Irish Pub? A well-meaning film, but lacking in excitement.

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