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LOCATION
Kansas City
ABOUT DAN
Dan Lybarger is a Kansas City-based entertainment and general-interest writer whose work has appeared in The Kansas City Star, Cineaste, FilmFax, eFilmCritic.com, eKC, The Lawrence (KS) Journal-World, Pitch and other outlets.
FAVORITES
Filmmakers:
•Billy Wilder
•Akira Kurosawa
•Agnieszka Holland
•Buster Keaton (I attend a Keaton Festival every year in Iola, KS. This festival takes place seven miles from Keaton's birthplace in Picquay).
•Orson Welles
•Martin Scorsese
•Peter Weir
•Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger
•Woody Allen
•David Lean
•Charlie Chaplin
Movies:
•The Apartment
•Europa Europa
•Life Lessons (from "New York Stories")
•Modern Times
•Apocalypse Now
•Rashomon
•The Magnificent Ambersons
•The General (1927)
•Witness (Part of my fascination with this movie is due to the fact that my relatives are Dunkards, a religious order like the Amish)
•The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
•My Life as a Dog
•Of course, Citizen Kane
