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Austenland | Sundance 2013 Review
Jane Austen Will Have Her Revenge: Hess’ Debut a Pandering, Middle Class Courting Cipher Jerusha Hess, screenwriter of Napoleon Dynamite, which her brother Jared Hess directed, turns her to sights to the adaptation of
Read More2013 Slamdance: Between Us | Review
Bring Me the Head of Virginia Wolff: Mirvish Scores With Acidic Marital Strifer Director Dan Mirvish, co-founder of the Slamdance Film Festival (and perhaps more notoriously, co-founder of the Martin Eisendtadt hoax during the
Read MoreInterior. Leather Bar | Sundance 2013 Review
Exterior. The Heternormative: Franco & Matthews’ Experimental Exercise Takes Temperatures James Franco, already cementing a reputation as one of the most eclectic and noteworthy cinematic commodities as actor, writer and director, teams up with
Read MoreCrystal Fairy | Sundance 2013 Review
Wild In Part: Silva’s Zany Mescaline Film a Pleasurable Trip Chilean director Sebastian Silva debuts two new films this year, both starring Michael Cera, the first being a strangely idiotic road trip about a
Read More2013 Slamdance: Diamond on Vinyl | Review
Sound Off: Hughto’s Film Explores Artificiality of Performance and Interaction to Varying Effect It’s unfortunate that director J.R. Hughto’s sophomore effort, Diamond on Vinyl never quite keeps up the eerie tone it subtly cues
Read MoreCircles | Sundance 2013 Review
Circles In the Sand: Golubovic’s Intersecting Triptych Spins Right Round “When you throw a stone in water, something happens,” mutters one of the main players in Serbian filmmaker Srdan Golubovic’s third feature, Circles, one
Read MoreMay in the Summer | Sundance 2013 Review
Summer of Our Discontent: Dabis’ Sophomore Feature an Uneven Venture Nebraska born filmmaker Cherien Dabis follows up her well received 2009 debut Amreeka with a cotton candy cross-cultural, romantically inclined melodrama, May in the
Read MoreNo | Review
Just Say It: Larrain’s Final Entry In Pinochet Trilogy a Knockout Heralded as the last and also lightest film in Chilean auteur Pablo Larrain’s Pinochet trilogy, No does indeed emanate a light heartedness, mostly
Read MoreLUV | Review
LUV is the Drug: Candis’ Debut an Ensemble to “Like” When one thinks of representations of Baltimore in cinema, it’s easy to default to John Waters’ films in one’s mind. Not so with director
Read MoreUnder the Radar: Eric’s Top Five Picks for Sundance 2013
#5. Concussion Who: Having begun her ascension via her work as a commercials director/producer, 2012/2013 has turned out to be fairly kick ass in terms of receiving support. From the guidance of producer Rose
Read MoreUnder the Radar: Nicholas’ Top Five Picks for Sundance 2013
#5. Interior. Leather Bar Who: While everyone may be familiar with actor/director James Franco, they not be as aware of the filmmaker he’s paired with to direct Interior. Leather Bar, Travis Mathews. With a
Read More2013 Guide to the Sundance Twitterverse: U.S. Dramatic Competition
Aaaah….that crisp Park City air. Eric Lavallee, Nicholas Bell, and I Jordan Smith are returning to the Sundance Film Festival (@sundancefest) once again this year for another ten day cinematic marathon where we will
Read More2013 Guide to the Sundance Twitterverse: U.S. Documentary Competition
Here are some of the twitter feeds for those participating in the Sundance Film Festival’s 2013 U.S. Documentary Competition including (image featured above) 99% – The Occupy Wall Street Collaborative Film. If you know
Read More2013 Guide to the Sundance Twitterverse: Premieres and Docu Premieres
Here are some of the twitter feeds for those participating in the Sundance Film Festival’s 2013 Premieres and Docu Premieres section including (image featured above) docu film, The Crash Reel from helmer Lucy Walker. If
Read More2013 Guide to the Sundance Twitterverse: NEXT
Here are some of the twitter feeds for those participating in the Sundance Film Festival’s 2013 NEXT section including (image featured above) Alexandre Moors’ Blue Caprice. If you know of any other twitter feeds (producers,
Read More2013 Guide to the Sundance Twitterverse: Park City at Midnight
Here are some of the twitter feeds for those participating in the Sundance Film Festival’s 2013 Prk City at Midnight section including (image featured above) Hell Baby. If you know of any other twitter
Read More2013 Guide to the Sundance Twitterverse: World Dramatic & Docu Competition
Here are some of the twitter feeds for those participating in the Sundance Film Festival’s 2013 Premieres and Docu Premieres section including (image featured above) Who is Dayani Cristal?. If you know of any
Read MoreTop 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2013: #1. Lars von Trier’s Nymphomaniac
Nymphomaniac Director: Lars von Trier Writer(s): Lars von Trier Producer(s): Zentropa’s Louise Vesth & Marie Cecilie Gade U.S. Distributor: Rights Available Cast: Charlotte Gainsbourg, Stellan Skarsgård, Stacy Martin, Shia LaBeouf, Jamie Bell, Christian Slater,
Read MoreTop 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2013: #2. Arnaud Desplechin’s Jimmy Picard
Jimmy Picard Director: Arnaud Desplechin Writer(s): Arnaud Desplechin Producer(s): Why Not Productions’ Pascal Caucheteux U.S. Distributor: Rights Available Cast: Benicio Del Toro, Mathieu Amalric, Elya Baskin (Spider-Man 3) Working on and off the project
Read MoreTop 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2013: #3. Coen Bros.’ Inside Llewyn Davis
Inside Llewyn Davis Directors/Writers: Ethan Coen and Joel Coen Producer(s): Coen Bros. & Scott Rudin U.S. Distributor: Rights Available Cast: Carey Mulligan, Justin Timberlake, John Goodman, Garrett Hedlund, Adam Driver and F. Murray Abraham
Read MoreTop 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2013: #4. Roy Andersson’s A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence
A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence Director/Writer: Roy Andersson Producer(s): Pernilla Sandström U.S. Distributor: Rights Available Cast: Nisse Vestblom, Holger Andersson I huge fan of 2000′s Songs from the Second Floor,
Read MoreExclusive Clip: Opening Minutes to Destin Cretton’s I Am Not A Hipster
Destin Cretton’s wonderful fictional feature debut, I Am Not A Hipster, just got released across multiple platforms, from several different VOD services to Blu-ray and DVD. With this exclusive clip you’ll find the film’s
Read MoreTop 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2013: #5. Ilya Khrzhanovsky’s Dau
Dau Director: Ilya Khrzhanovsky Writer(s): Khrzhanovsky and Vladimir Sorokin Producer(s): Coproduction Office’s Philippe Bober & Artyom Vasilev U.S. Distributor: Rights Available Cast: TBA Winner at Rotterdam in 2005 for his debut film 4, Ilya
Read MoreTop 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2013: #6. Hubert Sauper’s We Come as Friends
We Come as Friends Director: Hubert Sauper Producer(s): Sauper and Gabriele Kranzelbinder (Museum Hours) U.S. Distributor: Rights Available Among my top documentary films of the past decade, Darwin’s Nightmare hit hard. It stung on
Read MoreTop 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2013: #7. Corneliu Porumboiu’s A Nine-Minute Interval
A Nine-Minute Interval Director: Corneliu Porumboiu Writer: Corneliu Porumboiu Producers: Romanian 42km Film’s Marcela Ursu and Les Films du Worso’s Sylvie Pialat U.S. Distributor: Rights Available Cast: Bogdan Dumitrache (The Death of Mr. Lazarescu)
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