Category: Movies
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The Mind of Russell Richards: The local artist on his new short film “Fiji Mermaid”
In a spare bedroom of his Belmont house, the McGuffey artist-in-residence Russell Richards stands next to one of the stars of his latest short film, a grotesque stop motion model he built by hand. A replica of a 19th century phenomena called a Fiji Mermaid, the foot-and-a-half figure is grey-skinned, with shriveled breasts that hang…
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“Boston Bound” premieres on the DTM
Unfortunate that most of the recent round-ups from local media about the Virginia Film Festival don’t mention local filmmaker Anwar Allen, whose debut docu Boston Bound premieres at the Regal 4 Downtown Mall on Thursday, November 7 at 7:45pm. So we mention it here. The film is about a group of Charlottesville runners who ran…
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Marquee message
The current film line-up on the Downtown Regal marquee offers an odd, and inadvertent, social commentary. Photo by Anita Byers.
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