Budding filmmaker Jonathan Caouette spent$218 to make a movie on his Macintosh about his dysfunc-tional family, Tarnation. It went to Cannes and was released in theaters. But because the film interwove images of his family with many references to popular culture—each of which had [RETURN TO ARTICLE]
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