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TOM LISANTI: RIP TORN AND GAIL GERBER ATTEND "LUCKY DAYS" PREMIERE IN CONEY ISLAND

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2008-10-04 18:48:00 by Cinema Retro in Celebrating Films of the 1960s & 1970s
...Coney Island Film Festival, where it was awarded the coveted Best Feature prize. The auditorium was packed and amongst the audience was many of the films stars including Angelica Page Torn, Rip Torn, Luke Zarzecki, Federico Castelluccio, Marilyn Sokol, Tom Wolfe, and Gail Gerber who all came on stage to field questions from the audience...
 
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The Warriors (1979)

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2008-06-03 01:19:58 by Joe Valdez in This Distracted Globe
...Coney Island known as the Warriors sends nine of its members to a citywide gang summit in the Bronx. The chosen few include their leader Cleon (Dorsey Wright), a cool headed war chief named Swan (Michael Beck), and the cocky Ajax (James Remar). A truce enables the Warriors to move via the subway through turf controlled by rival gangs. At the...
 
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Lou The Obscure: 25 Often Overlooked Lou Reed Songs and Performances

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2008-04-30 10:50:00 by Jeremy Richey in Moon In The Gutter
...Coney Island Baby . The lead off two Side Two of one of Lous most personal and greatest albums. This light tongue in cheek tale of a man who is an admitted Gift to the women of the world is sparked by some wonderfully warm and evocative guitar playing by Lou (who was returning to the instrument here for the first time in several years 10....
 
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Festival announcement

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2008-09-16 01:30:02 by Editor in Horror Movies
...Coney Island Film Festivals horror program in New York City. The nine and a half minute short, which confronts the complacency of film audiences in the violence they see onscreen, will be screen along with 11 other horror films from both New York and internationally based filmmakers of varying length ...
 
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TOM LISANTI: O LUCKY DAY! GAIL GERBER RETURNS TO THE SCREEN

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2008-09-18 07:47:00 by Cinema Retro in Celebrating Films of the 1960s & 1970s
...Coney Island Film Festival in Brooklyn, NY. Click here for more information Gail Gerber in End of hte Road (1970 Last seen on the big screen playing a pot-smoking high school student in End of the Road (1970), Gail has a small role as a dotty old lady who encounters Torn's lonely woman during the last summer days of Coney Island 's famed...
 
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CLOVERFIELD: The Best Monster Movie We've Had In A Long Time

2008-01-20 19:46:50 by Critics Rant in Critics Rant - Movie, DVD, and TV Show Reviews
 
...Coney Island. This cheesy little love fest gets cut short when the video jumps ahead to May 22. Robs brother Jason (Michael Vogel) has the camera, and he and his girlfriend Lily (Jessica Lucas) are planning a going away party for him. At the party, Jason hands the camera over to Robs best friend Hud (T.J. Miller) so they can record goodbyes...
 
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Was Beth Worth It? Thoughts On Cloverfield

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2008-01-23 20:10:12 by Piper in LAZY EYE THEATRE
...Coney Island and trying to catch strawberries in her mouth makes her scared. I know that Rob has had a crush on her since high school and that he recently had sex with her. That's all I know, but maybe there's more. Maybe she's a good conversationalist. Maybe she's very thoughtful. Maybe she spends every other weekend, helping orphans. And...
 
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Glass

2008-04-16 00:00:00 by The Sly Fox in The Sly Fox Film Reviews
 
...Coney Island to ride the Cyclone, the ancient amusement parks mammoth roller coaster. We also see that like a lot of self-absorbed geniuses, hes given to eccentric (hates overhead lighting) and misanthropic (could careless whether hes appreciated) tendencies. This means hes adamant about using desk and table lamps and is perfectly content if...
 
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MOVIE REVIEW: Cloverfield (2008)

2008-04-24 09:12:00 by John Kenneth Muir in John Kenneth Muir's Reflections on Film/TV
 
...Coney Island, riding the Ferris Wheel. The video of the monster - of the horror - then "overwrites" this more pleasant reality, just as the present always overwrites the past. Yet it is this conceit that makes the film more than just a chase through New York with monsters nipping at young adults' heels. This old "home movie" footage, in...
 
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