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2006 Stories by Drew Tillman

• 'Deeper Than Y'

  published October 24, 2006

  Clocking in at only an hour, Deeper Than Y is a lithe documentary about the trials and rewards of reaching advanced age, as well as a... More >>

• '20 Centimeters'

  published October 17, 2006

  To snip or not to snip? That's the question facing Marieta (Mónica Cervera), a transvestite hooker-with-a-heart-of-gold looking to ditch... More >>

• 'Ritchie Boys'

  published October 3, 2006

  The horror of war gets gently upstaged by the wit and wisdom of the vets interviewed in this solid WWII doc. The Ritchie Boys were mostly refugees... More >>

• 'Train Man: Densha Otoko'

  published September 12, 2006

  Adapted from a Japanese bestseller that's apparently based on true events, Train Man: Densha Otoko is a lot like its protagonist: sweet,... More >>

• 'Iraq for Sale'

  published August 29, 2006

  "Cash rules everything around me," a great poet once remarked. One need look no further than Robert Greenwald's harrowing new documentary on the... More >>

• 'The Beales of Grey Gardens'

  published July 11, 2006

  Improbably resurrected this year as a Broadway musical, the Maysles brothers' Grey Gardens (1975) documented the bizarre home life of two... More >>

• 'Two Drifters'

  published June 13, 2006

  Arriving from Portugal, this ludicrous melodrama of female hysteria is an oddly compelling bit of cinematic folly. The story begins with the death... More >>

• 'La Tropical'

  published May 23, 2006

  He likes the way I shake my ass," a giggling dancer in La Tropical says of director-photographer David Turnley. The Pulitzer- winning... More >>

• 'Revoloution'

  published May 2, 2006

  You say you want a revoloution? Careful what you wish for. Director Bret Carr—in addition to co-writing, producing, and singing the... More >>

• 'Following Sean'

  published April 25, 2006

  In the thick of the free-loving freak show that was Haight Ashbury in 1969, a four-year-old boy named Sean offhandedly confessed to filmmaking... More >>

• 'Shadow: Dead Riot'

  published March 14, 2006

  A horror movie set in an experimental women's rehabilitation facility has so much inherent promise that it's hard to watch as the makers of... More >>

• 'The Keeper: The Legend of Omar Khayyam'

  published January 10, 2006

  Set in present-day Houston, this plodding and pretentious historical drama interpolates the titular legend of Rubaiyat author and mathematician... More >>