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The Rambler | Review
Aimlessly Devoted To You: Reeder Culls More Stars and Less Sense for Sophomore Film More proof that horror as a genre has been hedged out of midnight movie programming in favor of meandering strangeness
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The East | Review
Activism Unchained: Batmanglij Thrills With Eco-Terror Seemingly a perfect union, the writing duo of director Zal Batmanglij and his hypnotic on screen muse, Brit Marling, return to the big screen with their second collaboration,
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Before Midnight | Review
Bewitching Hour: Linklater Scores Greatest Hour Yet with Trilogy Cap Nearly another decade has passed, and Richard Linklater has finally treated us to what seems to be the final chapter of Jesse and Celine,
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Interview: Alex Gibney (We Steal Secrets: The Story of Wikileaks)
Just a month before Bradley Manning finally appeared before a military judge to confess that he did indeed leak thousands of sensitive military documents, Alex Gibney’s latest docu investigation which chronicles Manning’s involvement with
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We Steal Secrets: The Story of Wikileaks | Review
Gibney Ciphers Assange’s Brain Child Back up a few years and you probably never had heard the name Julian Assange or his tiny little whistle-blowing website, WikiLeaks, but by 2010 both the name and
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Interview: Shane Carruth (Upstream Color)
After an eight year period of silence following his time travelling Sundance Grand Jury Prize winning debut Primer, Shane Carruth returns to his position not only at the helm with his latest masterpiece, Upstream
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Stoker | Review
India Song: Park-wook’s English Language is Stylized Creepy and Kooky South Korean master Park Chan-wook returns with his English language debut, Stoker, a heavily stylized mystery thriller that’s a grotesquely decorated façade with a
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The Inevitable Defeat of Mister and Pete | Sundance 2013 Review
Everybody Knows: Tillman’s Latest a Melodramatic Exercise of Youth in the Projects Director George Tillman Jr. takes a step away from mainstream fodder for an examination of urban miserabalism with The Inevitable Defeat of
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Best of Fest: Sundance 2013′s Top 10 New Faces
It was a longer process than we had anticipated, but post Sundance, Jordan M. Smith, Nicholas Bell and I weighed in on the best of the fest (tomorrow we launch our Top 20 New
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American Promise | Sundance 2013 Review
An Education: Brewster and Stephenson’s 12 Year Docu Documentarians Joe Brewster and Michèle Stephenson have been investigating the multicultural divide that pervades American culture for years, but when they decided to take a step
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Best of Fest: Eric’s Top Five Films from the 2013 Sundance Film Festival
Not taking into consideration the films that were featured in Sundance’s Spotlight section/sidebar which I’ve previously seen on the festival circuit and that would easily place within this top five (Pablo Larrain’s No (Directors’
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In Fear | Sundance 2013 Review
Fear Me Not: Lovering Terrorizes Our Time, Not Our Senses in Feature Debut After working quite regularly in television since the mid 90s, British director Jeremy Lovering debuts an experimentally filmed horror title, In
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Magic Magic | Sundance 2013 Review
Identikit: Silva’s Eerie Genre Effort an Unsettling Throwback Harkening back to a genre of women and madness features that populated plenty of classic titles from the late 60s and 70s, Sebastian Silva’s second film
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Lovelace | Sundance 2013 Review
Deep Throat’s Journey: Epstein & Friedman’s Porn Star Biopic By-the-Numbers In their first outing not placing significant focus on the recuperation of queer subjects or thematics, filmmaking duo Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman turn
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The Machine Which Makes Everything Disappear | Sundance 2013 Review
Gurchiani’s Lens Acts As A Georgian Confessional With a solid background in psychology and a foundation in direction via the University of Film and Television Konrad Wolf in Potsdam-Babelsberg, Germany, the Georgian born director
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Afternoon Delight | Sundance 2013 Review
Slight Delight: Soloway’s Debut an Overly Familiar Dessert Television writer/producer Jill Soloway makes her directorial debut with Afternoon Delight, a sometimes successfully coordinated comedic vehicle that finally gives Kathryn Hahn a worthy leading role.
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Citizen Koch | 2013 Sundance Review
Corporations Are People: Lessin and Deal Question Why Tia Lessin and Carl Deal’s Citizen Koch looks to shine a light on the political upheaval going on in Wisconsin due to covert corporate concessions and
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Best of Fest: Nicholas’ Top Five Films from the 2013 Sundance Film Festival
#5. Stoker South Korean auteur Park Chan-wook makes his English language debut about a creepy dysfunctional family in a gothic old house from a screenplay by Wentworth Miller. Brilliantly edited, featuring some lavish visual
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Metro Manila | Sundance 2013 Review
A Better Life: Ellis’ Latest a Masterful Drama of Sacrifice British director Sean Ellis brings us to the Philippines with his third feature film, Metro Manila, a bleak and often harrowing portrait of a
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We Are What We Are | 2013 Sundance Review
It Is What It Is: Mickle’s Latest a Subpar Remake Director Jim Mickle’s latest, We Are What We Are, is a remake of the excellent 2010 debut from Mexican director Jorge Michel Grau, where
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Film Festival Coverage Guide: 2013 Sundance
Here is a complete listing of the films that were shown/covered by the IONCINEMA.com team comprised of Nicholas Bell (NB), Jordan M. Smith (JS) and Eric Lavallee (EL). We’ll be populating this page up
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Doubling Up: Coogler’s “Fruitvale” and Hoover’s “Blood Brother” are the Toast of Sundance 2013
Ryan Coogler’s Fruitvale and Steve Hoover’s Blood Brother were the big winners at the 2013 edition of the Sundance Film Festival – both picked up the Audience awards and Grand Jury Prizes in their
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Cutie and the Boxer | Sundance 2013 Review
Art is a Demon: Heinzerling Finds Tragic Love in the Shinoharas Zachary Heinzerling’s documentary debut may not pack the political punch of most trending hard-issue docs, but Cutie and the Boxer holds its own
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The Look of Love | Sundance 2013 Review
Love Hurts: Winterbottom’s Biopic a By-the-Numbers Look at London’s Infamous King of Soho Michael Winterbottom continues on with his whirlwind filmography, unleashing one of his most standard projects in years, The Look of Love,
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S-VHS | Sundance 2013 Review
Improved Frequencies: Sequel to Found Footage Anthology Film an Improved Bag of Goodies While last year’s horror anthology, VHS, was an entertaining enough horror film compilation featuring work from some of the brightest new
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