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Sundance Review: Upstream Color
The patterns of nature and mathematics – and the breaking of those patterns which in turn make new patterns – are heavily threaded throughout the structure of this film, and the complexity of the ideas it explores and the way in which it inevitably requires the audience to actively participate in seeking to understand it is very much like a cinematic Socratic Circle. Socrates taught that all thinking derives from asking questions; the aim therefore is not to arrive at one right answer, but that asking one question should lead to further questions, and from this collective back-and-forth we construct meaning and answers.
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SPC Picks Up Linklater-Delpy-Hawke Before Midnight
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It’s not every January—so early in the awards season—that we see one of the likely best films of the year.
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“Embarrassing because it’s almost too tender to watch, so tender that it feels private, so private that continuing to look should get you slapped with a restraining order.” Wesley Morris‘ Sundance Survey
Read the full article »David Lowery On Selling Ain’t Them Bodies Saints, Co-Writing Pit Stop And Co-Editing Upstream Color At Sundance13
David Lowery On Selling Ain’t Them Bodies Saints, Co-Writing Pit Stop And Co-Editing Upstream Color At Sundance13
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“I never looked like a professional. We were both kids.” Woz Would Not Employ jOBS
Read the full article »Brave New Arthouse: At The Convergence
Brave New Arthouse: At The Convergence
Read the full article »Noujaim On The Square, A Movie That Won’t End
Noujaim On The Square, A Movie That Won’t End
Read the full article »TWC-RADiUS Takes Inequality For All For Everyone
TWC-RADiUS Takes Inequality For All For Everyone
Read the full article »“The Sundance porn wave continues.”
“The Sundance porn wave continues.”
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Perhaps it was some deeper spiritual call, a desire to strip away the typically materialistic Western values with which he’d been raised, to find the purity in a life of giving to others rather than taking from them. Or perhaps Rocky simply found in the children of that orphanage the closeness of family and unconditional love that he lacked at home. Whatever the case, he also found he didn’t want to leave. These kids needed him, and perhaps he needed them as well.
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Magnolia Crowns David Gordon Green’s Prince Avalanche
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Sundance Announces Shorts Award Winners
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“Love, love Amy Seimetz’s pixie cut. Love,” I wrote on Twitter directly after the press and industry screening of Shane Carruth’s Upstream Color as a couple of colleagues disagreed loudly nearby. I meant those words as highest praise: the remarkable Seimetz is as central to the film as women in Kieślowski’s late films.
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“There has been NO sustained growth in women directors over the last decade in both narrative or docs.”
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A pair of flirtatious young French girls catches Jim’s eye, and soon he’s following them around the park, dragging his young son along with him for the ride, and getting increasingly shameless in revealing his lust as the film progresses. How much of the girls’ flirtation is real and how much is Jim’s delusion is left to you to judge, though given the rest of what’s happening here, I think it’s maybe a little of both; regardless, it’s a lot creepy, this middle-aged man trolling after a pair of young girls, but it also makes a statement of sorts about sexual fantasy and objectification that one doesn’t expect to overtly find in a film about Disney anything.
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Barnes Coins “Porndance”
Read the full article »“Though the filmmakers may have committed trespass when they broke Disney World’s rules and if it violated the terms of entry on their tickets, the film itself is a different matter. As commentary on the social ideals of Disney World, it seems to clearly fall within a well-recognized category of fair use, and therefore probably will not be stopped by a court using copyright or trademark laws.”
“Though the filmmakers may have committed trespass when they broke Disney World’s rules and if it violated the terms of entry on their tickets, the film itself is a different matter. As commentary on the social ideals of Disney World, it seems to clearly fall within a well-recognized category of fair use, and therefore probably…
Read the full article »Another Sundance Buy: SPC Books Kill Your Darlings
Another Sundance Buy: SPC Books Kill Your Darlings
Read the full article »Sundance Review: Computer Chess, Escape From Tomorrow
Andrew Bujalski’s Computer Chess and Randy Moore’s Escape from Tomorrow, two small, subversive films shot in black-and-white, will leave Park City with critical favor and audience intrigue speeding them on their way.
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