Dustin Jansick
660 articles written by Dustin Jansick
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2013 Berlin International Film Festival Winners
As the 2013 Berlin International Film Festival comes to a close, as does our coverage of the festival. This last article contains the award winners of this year’s festival. The top prize award of the Golden Bear went to...
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2013 Oscar Predictions
While my Oscar predictions may not be quite as good as my Independent Spirit Award predictions were last year, I will offer my best guess at who I think will be declared the winner for each category. This year...
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2013 Oscar Nominated Shorts Spotlight: Live Action
Just by glancing over the synopsis for each of the five Oscar nominated short live-action films, you get the sense that you are in for a somber set of films to watch. One of the films (Henry) is about...
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The Diary of Preston Plummer
The Diary of Preston Plummer feels like a very personal film for writer and director Sean Ackerman; essentially about two young souls that fall in love and discover they each have their own painful family histories. This indie film...
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Sasquatch 2013 Lineup
The lineup for the 2013 Sasquatch Music Festival has been announced. The festival takes place during Memorial Day weekend in George, Washington. The main headliners this year are; Mumford & Sons, The Postal Service, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, and...
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Only The Young
Filmmakers Elizabeth Mims and Jason Tippet observe the lives of two teenage skateboarders who must deal with the complications that life often brings to adolescents. By following these two outcasts, who change their hair color just as much as...
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Gimme The Loot
Adam Leon’s debut feature Gimme The Loot was an instant hit when it first premiered at the SXSW Film Festival and won the Grand Jury prize. The film made an impressive festival circuit run which included the prominent Cannes...
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She & Him Announce New Album and Tour
She & Him announced that they would be releasing a new album as well as tour dates. Considering their first two full lengths were titled Volume One and Volume Two, it is of little surprise that this new one...
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Hello I Must Be Going
Ten years after premiering Love Liza at the Sundance Film Festival, Todd Louiso returns to the festival with his latest film, Hello I Must Be Going. The synopsis of the film fits right in line with what the festival...
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Celeste and Jesse Forever
It is a fact of life that doing the right thing is rarely the easiest. This is a hard concept to recognize but an even harder one to actually go through with. The theme behind Celeste and Jesse Forever...
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Watch: The East trailer
Reading the synopsis from Sundance Film Festival had one thinking that the second feature film from Zal Batmanglij, The East, sounded a lot like his previous film, which also featured and was co-written by Brit Marling. The film is...
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King Kelly
“Found footage” has now cemented itself has a sub-genre of horror, thanks to The Blair Witch Project, Paranormal Activity, and the millions of dollars similar films to them rank in. What is not so common is a film using...
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Watch: Lore trailer
Lore is Australia’s official submission to the Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film this year, and a trailer of the film is now available. Set in the spring of 1945 in Germany, the film follows a teenager and...
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2013 Independent Spirit Award Predictions
There is some stiff competition this year at the Independent Spirit Awards, forcing me to do a lot of pondering and second guessing. See who I predicted to win Independent Spirit Awards at this years awards show.
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Dog Days
If there is one thing Ulrich Seidl is the master of, it is getting a reaction out of his audience. Whether or not it is a positive one is another story. This is especially in film Dog Days as...