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2007 Stories by Aaron Hillis

• 'Steel City'

  published May 15, 2007

  Textured with the smoggy grays and troubadour blues of his provincial Illinois homeland, writer-director Brian Jun's likable, downbeat debut... More >>

• 'Orange Winter'

  published May 15, 2007

  In November 2004, controversy over electoral fraud erupted in the Ukraine, spurring on a series of demonstrations, since named the Orange... More >>

• 'The Last Time'

  published May 8, 2007

  Akin to hip-hop culture's misappropriation of Scarface as a tale of gangsta empowerment, writer-director Michael Caleo crudely latches onto... More >>

• 'Rolling Like a Stone'

  published May 8, 2007

  On fire back in June of '65, the Rolling Stones rocked their first-ever Swedish gig and then spent the night partying at a private house in... More >>

• Maddin Bowl

  published May 1, 2007

  Adrolly phantasmagoric, silent-film spectacle in which Freud meets Feuillade and Frankenstein! An auditorium crammed with an 11-piece live... More >>

• Cult Hero, Caught on Film

  published April 17, 2007

  Regularly mythologized in rock history as a sphinx-like recluse and influential cult icon, singer-songwriter Scott Walker has led a peculiar... More >>

• 'Modern Man'

  published April 3, 2007

  In its first of 27 inexplicable parts, a dead- pan twentysomething (Eric Becker) skims leaves from the backyard pool of a posh L.A. estate.... More >>

• 'The Glamorous Life of Sachiko Hanai'

  published April 3, 2007

  Expanded by a half-hour from its prior incarnation as a pinku eiga (or "Pink film," a still-popular breed of Japanese softcore porn that... More >>