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Home Video Hovel- Attenberg, by Patrick Felton

There’s much connective tissue between Giorgos Lanthimos’ divisive Academy Award nominated film Dogtooth and Athina Rachel Tsangari’s Attenberg. A graduate of University of Texas Austin’s famous film school, Tsangari produced Lanthimos’s first two films. Attenberg star Ariane Labed appears later...

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Home Video Hovel- Ptown Diaries, by Patrick Felton

As the summer season approaches, many Americans find themselves pondering a unique vacation spot. One option Joseph Mantegna would really like you to consider Provincetown. With his 2009 film Ptown Diaries documentarian Joseph Mantegna (Norman Mailer: The American) makes a convincing case for...

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Zen There, Done That, by Patrick Felton

Many of the developing frontiers for documentary film in the digital era have focused on a genre known as “special interest.” These documentaries often run the gamut from professional wrestling recaps to fly fishing instructional videos. Somewhere in this mix...

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Home Video Hovel- Lost Keaton

The release of “Lost Keaton” couldn’t come at a better time. The two disc Blu-ray set from Kino Classics comes a month after the Academy Award triumph of The Artist the film which famously told the fictional story of a...

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BP’s New Blogger: Patrick Felton

Patrick is an actor, playwright, filmmaker, and arts advocate from Charleston WV. Patrick holds a Masters of Arts in Television, Radio, and Film from Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School of Communication. A staunch advocate for West Virginians in film, Patrick...

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Home Video Hovel- The Women on the 6th Floor

It’s hard to watch The Women on the 6th Floor without noticing that it has some striking similarities to The Help. Both won best supporting actress statuettes (Octavia Spencer at the Oscars and Carmen Maura at the Caesars). Both feature a large ensemble of actors. Both...

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Sounds Like Teen Spirit, by Patrick Felton

Over the last 8 years Magnolia Pictures has made a name for themselves as a home for some of cinema’s most offbeat titles. With titles ranging from World’s Greatest Dad, Rubber and Severed Ways: The Norse Discovery Of America, there is a certain brand association of daring, bizarre...

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