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Damon Smith is a New York-based film journalist. He has written features, profiles, and reviews for The Boston Globe, Time Out New York, Filmmaker magazine, Senses of Cinema ...
Ball and Trains: "The Order of Myths" Unmasks America's Oldest Mardi GrasBy Damon Smith Alabama native Margaret Brown made a strong impression four years ago with “Be Here to Love Me,” her tender docu-portrait of late Texas troubadour Townes Van Zandt, the renowned songwriter (and drinker) who died in 1997 of a heart embolism. For her second feature, Brown travels to ... read morePosted on 07/23/2008 by DGSmith 
Herzog and the ApocalypseA Meditation Inspired by "Encounters at the End of the World" By Damon Smith Movies have been dreaming about the end of the world at least since the 1950s, when nuclear-age anxieties about world destruction combusted on-screen, mostly in genre pictures featuring mad scientists, doomsday scenarios, and irradiated monsters. The ... read morePosted on 07/18/2008 by DGSmith About a "Boy"A Review of John Crowley's Post-Prison Coming-of-Age Tale, "Boy A" By Damon Smith “The past is not the future,” opines Peter Mullan’s Terry in the buzzed-about British film “Boy A.” But the past is exactly what’s got hold of Jack Burridge (Andrew Garfield), the sensitive young man that Terry, a ... read morePosted on 07/18/2008 by DGSmith Mumblecore's First Horror Flick: And No, That's Not the Unknown ComicA Review of "Baghead" By Damon Smith Depending on whether your taste runs to (or far away from) talky, low-budget twentysomething relationship comedies by the likes of Andrew Bujalski and Joe Swanberg, you either loved or hated Mark and Jay Duplass’s 2006 debut, “The Puffy Chair,” a keystone of the ... read morePosted on 07/18/2008 by DGSmith |
