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Festivals (10 posts found)
Bradford International Film Festival Review: “Never Die”
What a stunning film Never Die is. Though this minimalist, Mexico-set beauty could be feasibly reduced to a much shorter length - what writer/director Enrique Rivero has to say about life and death, in the story of middle-aged farmer's wife Chayo (Margarita Sa...
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Bradford International Film Festival Review: “Double Play”
Experimental Wisconsin filmmaker James Benning wandered the cafe of Bradford Film Fest's National Media Museum, along with Double Play's writer/director Gabe Klinger, almost unnoticed, shuffling around in denim jacket under long, greying hair, and giving off a...
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ATLFF Review: “The Double”
Richard Ayoade’s debut film, Submarine was a promising feature limited by its restrictive fealty to its influences, which makes the considerably more successful The Double all the more surprising. Not only does it rely on the fractal psychological state of Dos...
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Bradford International Film Festival Review: “Diego Star”
Last year, an unprecedented number of high profile movies about survival at sea appeared on our screens. All Is Lost, Captain Phillips, A Hijacking and Kon-Tiki together presented the ocean as a perilous zone for daredevils and jobsbodies alike, with land alwa...
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Independent Film Festival of Boston Announces 2014 Line-Up
Here in Boston, the arrival of April means that we can put away our snow shovels, get back to using the Frog Pond as a reflecting pool, and start counting down the hours until opening day at Fenway. It also means an influx of independent cinema throughout our ...
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ATLFF Review: “45RPM” Is A Garage Rock Discovery
The following is a review from the Atlanta Film Festival, running March 28-April 6.
The story of a struggling young artist embarking on a journey of self-discovery in the name of finding an obscure vinyl single recorded by her deceased father, Juli Jackson’...
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SXSW Review: “Frank” is a Mixed Bag of Tonal Whiplash and Muddled Ideas
The relationship between creativity and mental illness is a topic that has long been discussed in the modern era, with many suggesting that some of the most unstable artists create some of the greatest work. While that is certainly a more complex topic than ca...
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SXSW Review: “Boyhood” is the Masterful Summation of Richard Linklater’s Career
If there’s been a more ambitious filmmaking endeavor in the last ten years than Richard Linklater’s Boyhood, I’d love to know. Shot every year over the course of twelve years, the film chronicles the life of a family living in the south Texas suburbs, featurin...
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SXSW Review: Jim Jarmusch Plays By His Own Rules in “Only Lovers Left Alive”
Jim Jarmusch is a filmmaker who has long been concerned with human behavior, forgoing traditional narratives in favor of observing people interacting with one another, without anything ever really “happening”. When things do happen, it is without much fanfare,...
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Jury Awards for SXSW 14 Announced: ‘Fort Tilden’ and ‘The Great Invisible’ Win Big
The Jury Awards for the SXSW 14 Film Festival have been announced.
The big winner is Fort Tilden by directors Sarah-Violet Bliss and Charles Rogers. The film stars Bridey Elliott and Clare McNulty and it follows the two girls on a inexplicably troublesome j...
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