Dustin Jansick
660 articles written by Dustin Jansick
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Toronto International Film Festival Lineup 2011
The Toronto International Film Festival has started announcing titles of films that will be playing at it's 36th annual festival held from September 8th - 18th 2011. Last year the TIFF had 246 films that were part of the...
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Win Win
Win Win is an indie drama from Thomas McCarthy whose third film proves he knows how to write genuine human behavior. Although there are some similarities between his other films, Win Win should appeal to a wider audience with...
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Submarine
Submarine is a Welsh film that director Richard Ayoade adapted a screenplay based off the novel by the same name, about an awkward teenage boy and his first real relationship with a girlfriend. It is an honest coming of...
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Wrecked
Wrecked is an indie thriller that stars Adrien Brody who wakes up and is trapped in a crushed car with no memories of what happened. It is often compared to 127 Hours and Buried and rightfully so, it does...
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City of God
Brazilian director Fernando Meirelles created possibly the most compelling foreign crime drama to date with City of God. It is based on actual events of the life of Wilson Rodriguez who is a famous Brazilian photographer. The storyline is...
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Fish Tank
Fish Tank is a British film done by Andrea Arnold who wrote and directed it. The story is peppered with characters all of which share the major flaw of poor decision making. The main character is a young female...
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Oldboy
Oldboy is a powerful Korean film that is as mesmerizing as it is disturbing. It is one that would not be able to be distributed in America because of the nature of it’s sexuality and violence. It is about...
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Cedar Rapids
Cedar Rapids is about a man who must come out of his shell to stand up for what he believes is the right thing to do. Always raunchy, often funny, but rarely more than bland.
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Intereview: Sean Parker & Austin Hillebrecht – Coup de Cinema
Sean Parker and Austin Hillebrecht both directed the super low budget film Coup de Cinema, which is an indie comedy about indie filmmaking. They explain the importance of pre-production, the pros and cons of co-directing, and their take on...
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Coup de Cinema
Coup de Cinema is an indie low budget film about low budget indie filmmaking. Co-directors Austin Hillebrecht and Sean Parker made a fantastically original film about an inspired filmmaker who believes he can turn the production of a bad...
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13 Assassins
The director Takashi Miike, who may be most famous for directing the horror film Audition, is the director of this epic samurai period film. 13 Assassins is set in 1844 toward the end of the Edo era that Tokyo...
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The Illusionist
Based off a Pulitzer Prize winning short story, The Illusionist is a film about a magician who must overcome class struggle throughout his life in order to win the hand of his lover. Not only are the illusions mysterious...
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2011 Cannes Film Festival Winners
Cannes Film Festival came to a close Sunday night and announced the winners of Palme d’Or, Grand Prix, Best Director and other high status awards. Kirsten Dunst won Best Actress in Lars von Trier's film Melancholia and thanked the...
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Last Train Home
Last Train Home is a documentary by Lixin Fan that follows a family of factory workers over the course of three years and shows the struggle between factory life and family life in China. The film starts off saying,...
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Thor
It has been nearly 50 years since Thor was originally created as a comic book hero by Marvel Comics. In what seems as a last effort to milk the comic book turn movie trend, Hollywood gives us Thor. Speaking...