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When the bogeyman gets caught - Ottawa Citizen

2010-07-26T18:39:45Z

You know that urban legend about the guy with a hook for a hand -- or maybe in your neighbourhood he was a guy with an axe -- who escapes from the mental hospital and waits in the woods for children who have stayed out too late or strayed too far from home?

NWFF has 'Cropsey' | Seattle Times Newspaper

2010-07-26T18:38:49Z

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A thoughtful and undeniably chilling documentary turns up late-night at Northwest Film Forum this weekend.

“Cropsey” | Willamette Week | July 14th, 2010

2010-07-19T21:14:44Z

"an electrifying film dissecting child murder and madness."

Marriage-for-hire tale a touching urban fable - Wisconsin State Journal

2010-07-16T09:58:16Z

Marriage-for-hire tale a touching urban fable
Wisconsin State Journal
First-time writer-director Darko Lungulov has created a low-key and poignant urban fable that touches you in ways you don't see coming. ...

'Here and There' focuses on finding your place in the world - Plain Dealer

2010-07-06T21:08:10Z

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'Here and There' focuses on finding your place in the world
Plain Dealer
Darko Lungulov's debut focuses on characters caught between America and Serbia. Yes, the US bombing of Yugoslavia in 1999 colors the views of a minor ...

The Onion says CROPSEY is "effectively creeply."

2010-06-22T22:26:16Z

"...effectively creepy...raises disturbing questions...compelling as a meditation on how we use stories to explain the inconceivable, and how if no story is handy, we take the available clues and make one up."

Here and There - Is the grass greener in New York City ... or Belgrade? - Pittsburgh City Paper

2010-06-14T16:23:57Z

It's a gentle cultural switcheroo in writer-director Darko Lungulov's low-key dramedy. A broke, jaded middle-aged New Yorker named Robert (David Thornton) makes a deal with Branko (Branislav Trifunovic), a young Serbian immigrant. Robert will go to Belgrade, marry Branko's girlfriend and bring her back to New York City, for a cash payout. But things don't go quite as planned for either man. Robert moves in with Branko's mother (Mirjana Karanovic), and finds the still-bruised Serbian capital to be somewhat energizing. Meanwhile, Branko discovers that helpful New Yorkers are anything but. Lungulov's film strikes common themes -- disgruntled and lonely people are everywhere, but still they strive to make connections; a change of scenery is illuminating; and the vagaries of defining a "good life." It's meditatively paced, a little wistful and bittersweet, with just a touch of deadpan quirky. It's a fine alternative for a quieter, more adult night out, rather than the usual fare of clattering, in-your-face summer films. In English, and Serbian, with subtitles. Starts Fri., June 11. Oaks (AH) [2.5 out of 4 stars]

'Here and There' takes charming trip - Pittsburgh Post Gazette

2010-06-11T04:38:41Z

Pittsburgh Post Gazette

'Here and There' takes charming trip
Pittsburgh Post Gazette
Although just 85 minutes, "Here and There," from Serbian-born writer and director Darko Lungulov, conveys a sense of a country with a memory of different, ...

Cropsey

2010-06-11T15:36:00Z

Boston Globe

(Chad Davidson/Cinema Purgatorio) By Wesley Morris “Cropsey '' only sounds like a teddy bear that's come to life. It's actually a chillingly effective ...

A Real Life Staten Island Blair Witch | Film Reviews | The L Magazine - New York City's Local Event and Arts & Culture Guide

2010-06-10T23:25:20Z

Cropsey delves into the dark deeds and unsolved mysteries of NYC's outer limits.

Cropsey – Cinema Purgatorio

2010-06-09T17:28:55Z

Cropsey continues in NYC this week; opens Somerville MA, Shreveport LA, and Charlotte NC. Buffalo, Denver, Bushnell, Anchorage, Austin, Los Angeles, etc., coming soon.

CROPSEY – Unresolved Mysteries

2010-06-04T13:31:44Z

(Cropsey opens theatrically in New York City on Friday, June 4, 2010, at the IFC Center, before expanding to more cities in the following weeks and months. It will also be available on VOD through Gravitas Ventures beginning on July 2nd. Visit the film’s official website to learn more.) Nine years in the making, Joshua Zeman [...]

Joshua Zeman, Writer-Director of Cropsey - Gothamist

2010-06-04T18:53:44Z

The legend of Staten Island boogeyman Cropsey and the disappearance of numerous girls in the borough during the 1980s.

NPR - 'Cropsey' - A Town's Worst Nightmares, In The Flesh

2010-06-04T18:50:07Z

When I was 5, the boarded-up shack in the woods behind my house wasn't someplace I'd ever have considered going after dark.

REVIEW: A Bogeyman Gets His Close-Up in Cropsey

2010-06-01T18:30:00Z

"What do you have to say to the Staten Island community?" a reporter asks accused child murderer Andre Rand about halfway through Cropsey, an absorbing and openly personal look at the function and dysfunction of local legends. "They're the perpetrators of a fraud," Rand replies, before ducking into the armored van that will take him back to Rikers Island. They are the first words he speaks in the film -- a menacing voicemail is his only follow-up -- and they resonate throughout the rest of a documentary that gets a little lost within its own agenda of separating "the facts from the folklore."

"CROPSEY" Video Interview Part One!

2010-06-03T14:49:55Z

This Friday, the much praised “horror doc” CROPSEY begins its limited theatrical run at New York City’s IFC Center. Co-director Joshua Zeman recently spoke to Fango about the film and its long road to completion. Check out the first part of the video interview and find out when you can see it after the jump!

Movie Review | 'Cropsey': Joshua Zeman and Barbara Broncaccio Look at Kidnappings

2010-06-04T21:22:03Z

Josuha Zeman and Barbara Brancaccio look at the investigation of a former attendant at a school for the mentally disabled.

Film - Shadows of a Staten Island Boogeyman in ‘Cropsey’ - NYTimes.com

2010-06-01T23:43:07Z

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COUPLES do all sorts of things on first dates. Coffee. Dinner. Dancing. Or strolling around the grounds of the abandoned Willowbrook mental institution on Staten Island. Josh Zeman and Barbara Brancaccio chose to take the walk. The outcome was a movie.

COUPLES do all sorts of things on first dates. Coffee. Dinner. Dancing. Or strolling around the grounds of the abandoned Willowbrook mental institution on Staten Island. Josh Zeman and Barbara Brancaccio chose to take the walk. The outcome was a movie.

Staten Island Boogeyman Haunts Anew: New Film Explores Cropsey Legend - Wall Street Journal

2010-06-01T23:40:32Z

As a kid growing up on Staten Island in the late 1970s, Joshua Zeman often wandered through the woods in the center of the island. His summer camp was the destination. But the dense brush and shadowy paths held other, darker fascinations. It was notorious as the site of the Willowbrook State School.

Cropsey : The New Yorker

2010-06-01T23:38:12Z

Probing an urban legend from their Staten Island childhood—that of Cropsey, a maniacal child killer and escapee from the nearby Willowbrook mental institution—the documentary filmmakers Joshua Zeman and Barbara Brancaccio expand the story to include the real disappearances of children, the hunt for (and trials of) a suspect, and the…