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For the Shorties
Capsule reviews of the Film Festival's best, brightest and downright baddest.
127 Hours | Alamar | The Best and the Brightest | Black Swan | Blue Valentine | Boxing Gym | Café | Carancho | Carlos | Certified Copy | Conviction | Film Socialisme | Four Lions | How to Fold a Flag | Kings of Pastry | Leap Hear | Lebanon, PA | Machete Maidens Unleashed | Marwencol | OC87 | Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives | Waste Land | White Material | Red Hill | The New Year


Night on the Town
A Philadelphia-based director's first feature film hits close to home.
by Sam Adams
In Night Catches Us, the past is always present, as tangible as the Germantown houses where the film was shot, which Hamilton says required little modification to look as they did 30 years ago. Behind the wallpaper in Kerry Washington's kitchen are bullet holes and bloodstains, reminders of a more violent time hidden just beneath the surface.

Book Quarterly
Our critics suss out reading material for the autumn months.
The Mind's Eye | Philadelphia Noir | Great House | Palo Alto Stories | Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk | Sunset Park | Girls to the Front | Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self | My Year of Flops | Seeing Further


Found Safe And Sound
<i>A Page of Madness</i>, Fri., Oct. 22, 8 p.m., $20, International House, 3701 Chestnut St., 267-519-3214, <a href="http://filmadelphia.org/" target="_blank">filmadelphia.org</a>.
by Shaun Brady
The story of a sailor who works as a janitor in an insane asylum in order to keep an eye on his wife, committed there after the murder of their child, gilds its tragic storyline with a cavalcade of cinematic effects, experimental techniques that wouldn't come into vogue for decades.