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Short Stuff: Watch Jason Willis’s Mind Bending, Sundance Award Winning Catnip: Egress to Oblivion
In a world of features, short films rarely get much attention. Yet the best five-minute shorts usually contain more originality and creativity than your average Hollywood blockbuster. That’s why we launched Short Stuff, a weekly profile on a promising short-fo...
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Runyon’s 20 Most Anticipated Films of Sundance 2013
Like the majority of movie-buffs, I wasn't able to go to Sundance. One of these days, perhaps my dream will become a reality, but this year it was not meant to be.
In the meantime, all I could do was fawn over my Twitter feed to see what movies were getting...
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Sundance Day Six: David Gordon Green’s Prince Avalanche, The East, and the Polarizing Upstream Color
Prince Avalanche (dir. David Gordon Green)
(Grade: C) -- David Gordon Green’s return to independent cinema, after a string of achingly awful films (Pineapple Express, Your Highness,and The Sitter), may very well be the definition of mediocrity.
Languis...
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Delightful Day Five at Sundance Includes Lake Bell’s Directorial Debut, Chan-wook Park’s Stylish Stoker, and the Masterful Before Midnight
No small talk to include in today's wrap-up post. Enjoy the writing.
In a World (Dir. Lake Bell)
(Grade: B) -- Lake Bell’s charming In A World may be the first film to explore the occupation of voice-over artists (otherwise known as the folks with soothi...
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A Discussion with Jeff Nichols
You'd be hard-pressed to find a working filmmaker as genuine, kind, and thoughtful as Jeff Nichols. His latest film entitled Mud is now playing at this year's Sundance Film Festival and possesses many of the features displayed in Nichols' sincere personality.
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Day Four at Sundance Showcases Breathe In, Sightseers, and Escape From Tomorrow
Day four at the Sundance Film Festival proved to be an exciting one with one interview, three films, and a temperature far below what I'd like it to be. Speaking of which, my discussion with Mud director Jeff Nichols will be posted within the next few hours. S...
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Day Three at Sundance: The Good, the Bad, and ‘Austenland’
If day three of the Sundance Film Festival proved anything, it's that ridiculous notion that at some point in your day, you should eat food. Bizzarre concept. And one I didn't follow through with - aside from a mini-box of Cheez-Its and a granola bar from Ms....
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Sundance Film Festival Kicks off with Mud, After Tiller, Dayani Cristal, Chilean Cocaine, and an Oscar nominated Documentary
After about a half-dozen films, from a documentary about third-trimester abortions to an America high on cocaine in Chile, the first two days of the Sundance International Film Festival have come to a close. Alas, my Sundance virginity has been lost. It was bo...
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