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Festivals (10 posts found)
SXSW Review: “No No: A Dockumentary” is as Extraordinary and Complex as its Subject
If 13 Sins represented a film at SXSW without a single human being in it, No No: A Dockumentary would be the polar opposite. Chronicling the life of Dock Ellis, the baseball player who famously pitched a no-hitter while tripping on LSD, this is a film so vital...
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SXSW Review: “13 Sins” Is a Flaccid Start to Midnight Programming
The programming at SXSW Midnight is often filled with low-budget, earnest, and unique visions of the horror and thriller genres. These are the independent voices in genre filmmaking we desperately need in today’s world, filled with remakes, reboots, and otherw...
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SF Indiefest Reviews: “Hank,” “Doomsdays,” “There is Light” and “Congratulations!”
This year's edition of the San Francisco Independent Film Festival started on February 6th and continues to run through the 20th. Movie Mezzanine procured some screeners of films showing at the festival, and here are a few reviews of said films.
Hank: 5 Y...
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Berlinale Review: “Beauty and the Beast” is Devouring Good Taste
Popculture, counterculture, gender patterns, satire, social perspective... the list of the potential filters is expanding so fast, it's basically endless. From Catherine Breillat's Sleeping Beauty, through Darren Aronofsky's Black Swan to Adamson and Jenson's ...
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Berlinale Review: “Velvet Terrorists” Mixes Fiction and Documentary… and Terrorists.
A lighthouse towers over a deserted landscape of rubble. There is a pause and then an explosion, its sound substituted for the chime of a small bell, that brings the solitary building crashing to the ground. The camera glides to the right to reveal a man stand...
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Berlinale Review: “In Order of Disaperance” Is A Darkly Comedic Revelation
Stellan Skarsgard might be one of the busiest - and most laid-back - actors of today. Recently seen in Lars Von Trier's controversial Nymphomaniac, with a role consisting of neverending lines of complex dialogue, this time the Scandinavian star has chosen acti...
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TIFF Next Wave Festival Shows the Importance of Youth in Cinema
Written by Amir Soltani and Adriana Floridia, the following report is from the "TIFF Next Wave Film Festival" in Toronto, CA.
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The TIFF Next Wave Film Festival, taking place at Toronto's TIFF Bell Lightbox this weekend (February 14-16) is curated by a com...
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Berlinale Review: ‘Love is Strange’ And So is Society
Berlinale is a lucky event for Keep the Lights On's Ira Sachs. Two years ago, the Festival's 62. edition brought him a Teddy Award (awarded to the best LGBTQ feature). His latest entry, Love is Strange, which was enthusiastically received at Sundance, is a par...
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Berlinale Review: Rigor and Religion in Superb “Kreuzweg”
I’d be surprised if there were to be a better film than Kreuzweg (Stations Of The Cross) in this year’s International Competition in Berlin. German films have an unfortunate tendency to be neglected come awards time, but I would certainly suggest its young act...
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Berlinale Review: ‘Happy To Be Different’ Takes a Look At Homosexuality in Fascist Italy
A couple of weeks back, Russian (p)resident despot Vladimir Putin reiterated his position as a valiant bastion against the negative propaganda with which the homosexuals try and proselytise amongst the motherland’s youths, in anticipation of the Sochi Winter O...
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