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2013 CAAMFest: The Reluctant Fundamentalist & Midnight’s Children
Film Festival | Bernard Boo | March 21, 2013This past Sunday, I saw a pair of fantastic adaptations of prize-winning books: Deepa Mehta’s adaptation of Salman Rushdie’s epic Midnight’s Children, and Mira Nair’s take on Mohsin Hamid’s cultural drama, The Reluctant Fundamentalist, starring Riz Ahmed, Liev Schreiber,...
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2013 CAAMFest: Late Summer, When Night Falls, High Tech Low Life
Film Festival | Bernard Boo | March 19, 2013Late Summer Late Summer borrows its title from the work of one of the most celebrated directors of all time, Yasujiro Ozu. If you’re familiar with Ozu’s work, you’ll recognize that the title makes quite the statement. Surely director...
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2013 CAAMFest: Opening Night, Linsanity, Graceland
Film Festival | Bernard Boo | March 16, 2013CAAMFest kicked off with a screening of Evan Jackson Leong’s look into the Jeremy Lin phenomenon, Linsanity, at San Francisco’s Castro Theater, and then moved a few blocks down Market Street to the beautiful Asian Art Museum for the...
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2013 CAAMFest Coverage Introduction
Film Festival | Bernard Boo | March 14, 2013Tonight marks the opening night of CAAMFest, once known as the San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival, CAAMFest is a celebration of Asian and Asian American media, food, music, culture, digital arts, and of course, film. Though re-branded...
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2013 SXSW Film Festival Award Winners
Awards | Dustin Jansick | March 13, 2013The winners of the 2013 SXSW Film Festival were announced last night with Destin Daniel Cretton’s Short Term 12 winning the Grand Jury prize for Narrative Feature. The other Grand Jury Winner was Ben Nabors’ documentary William and the...
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Giveaway: Win The Place Beyond the Pines Soundtrack and Poster
News | Dustin Jansick | March 12, 2013The upcoming film from the director of Blue Valentine, which also stars Ryan Gosling, looks as if he has another emotionally powerful story on his hands. The Place Beyond the Pines explores the bond between fathers and sons as...
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Watch: Frances Ha trailer
Trailer | C.J. Prince | March 8, 2013IFC Films has put out a trailer for Frances Ha, Noah Baumbach’s (The Squid and the Whale, Kicking and Screaming, Greenberg) new film. Initially a bit of a secret project that star and co-writer Greta Gerwig was going to direct,...
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Watch: Simon Killer trailer
Trailer | Dustin Jansick | March 7, 2013Our favorite film from SF Indiefest this year, Simon Killer, finally has a trailer available to watch. The trailer gives you a taste of the discomfort as well as the hypnotic visuals that are found in Antonio Campos’ latest...
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Giveaway: Win Life of Pi on Blu-ray
News | Dustin Jansick | March 5, 2013Life of Pi is truly a film that you must see on the highest resolution possible in order to immerse yourself in the glorious picture director Ang Lee and cinematographer Claudio Mrianda create. Which is why Way Too Indie...
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Watch: The Conjuring trailer
Trailer | Blake Ginithan | February 28, 2013A brand spanking new teaser trailer has been released for the upcoming James Wan directed Horror film, The Conjuring. And boy does it look to have some promise. While details are a little foggy at the moment, we do...
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Watch: The Taking trailer
Trailer | C.J. Prince | February 27, 2013An intriguing trailer recently came out for the indie horror The Taking. Directed byThe BAPartists (aka Cezil Reed & Lydelle Jackson), The Taking is their debut feature. The trailer is somewhat mysterious, with scenes of two people tied up...
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SF IndieFest Coverage Wrap-Up
Film Festival | Bernard Boo | February 27, 2013After two weeks of movie-watching, subway-riding, popcorn-eating, people-meeting, white-russian-drinking madness, all I can say is that SF IndieFest is an incomparable experience not to be missed by any fan of independent film. What makes SF IndieFest special are the...
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Giveaway: Win The Sessions on Blu-ray
News | Dustin Jansick | February 26, 2013If you haven’t had a chance to see the Oscar and Independent Spirit Award nominated film The Sessions, which stars John Hawkes and Helen Hunt, now is your chance. Way Too Indie is giving away one copy of The...
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2013 Oscar Winners
Awards | Dustin Jansick | February 25, 2013Just as many expected, Argo took home the top award of Best Picture at the 85th Academy Awards, despite Ben Affleck not receiving a Best Director nomination, something that has only happened four times in 85 years. It was...