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Review: Green
"In Green, Takal takes away all pretenses, until all that is left is desire; what you have, what you don’t and what happens when that gap begins to widen. And there is nothing Mumblecore about that."
Review: Yelling to the Sky
"In Yelling to the Sky, Victoria Mahoney’s directorial debut, Sweetness O’Hara (Zoë Kravitz) tries on different personas in an attempt to better understand herself, her identity as someone from a biracial household, a gentle person who turns to violence. The film artfully expresses the newness of being a teenager, of being a self, and the consequent ecstasy and misery that comes with it."
Short Film Corner: Safdie Bros.’ John’s Gone
Speaking of their new short film John’s Gone, the Safdie Brothers said on their site that ‘To us, the film's a feature, "short" is just one way to describe the film's length. It's a full film.’ Though the comment is a little flippant, it holds true; this twenty-two minute short has the depth, the expansiveness, what even feels like the time spent with its main character John (played by younger brother Benny Safdie), that it does feel like a feature, or ‘full-length’. The film opened at Venice last year in October and has since played at numerous festivals in the US, starting with South by Southwest and prepping for a Rooftop Films showing...
