Sundance Review: We Are What We Are
I can’t even pretend to imagine what I’d do or how I’d feel if my father was a serial killer. We Are What ...
Tag: Festival Films
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Sundance Review: Who is Dayani Cristal?
Black Adidas, beige khakis, and a Spanish prayer in pocket. Another immigrant lays dead in the Sonora Desert — the 20 minute drive ...
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Sundance Review: Crystal Fairy
Micheal Cera starring in two Sundance films by Chilean director Sebastian Silva strikes me as pretty random. It then makes perfect sense that ...
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Sundance Review: The Inevitable Defeat of Mister & Pete
In the extended cut of The Inevitable Defeat of Mister and Pete, the film ends with a sack of puppies being beaten by ...
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Geoff’s Top Five Limited Release Films of 2012
In addition to all of the big budget, big theater releases I saw in 2012, a large portion of my time was spent ...
Review: Best Intentions
[For the next two weeks, we’ll be covering select films from Making Waves: New Romanian Cinema. Now in its seventh year, this film ...
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Review: Of Snails and Men
[For the next two weeks, we’ll be covering select films from Making Waves: New Romanian Cinema. Now in its seventh year, this film ...
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Review: Zipper: Coney Island’s Last Wild Ride
When I was in grad school, a lot of my peers said that they wrote about place. By that they meant people’s attachments ...
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DOC NYC Review: A Girl and a Gun
[For the next week and half, we will be covering DOC NYC 2012, New York City’s premier documentary film festival. Check back with ...
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Review: Informant
For most of America, Brandon Darby is not a household name. There are probably pockets of the South which recognize him, but in ...
Reel Asian Review: Seeking Asian Female
[Flixist will cover select films playing at the Reel Asian Film Festival, which runs in Toronto from November 6th through the 11th, and ...
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Reel Asian Review: Valley of Saints
Full disclosure: Valley of Saints is the first India-made movie I have ever seen. I am almost entirely ignorant of broader Indian customs, ...