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I Used to Be Darker
A natural reaction towards conflict is avoiding the threat by escaping, a common theme found within Matt Porterfield’s indie drama I Used to Be Darker. It is hard to say if the film achieves what it intends to, because...
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Interview: Megumi Sasaki and Dorothy Vogel of Herb and Dorothy 50X50
Herb & Dorothy 50X50 (our review) follows the titular legendary art collectors as they set up the Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection: Fifty Works for Fifty States, an unprecedented sharing of their world-class personal collection of conceptual art pieces...
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Herb & Dorothy 50X50
Imagine this: You’re watching an episode of Hoarders about a couple who live in a tiny one-bedroom Manhattan apartment and have stuff piled so high and tightly that there’s no possible way they could cram in more. The kicker...
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C.O.G.
Kyle Patrick Alvarez (Easier With Practice) has been gifted the very first crack at translating the work of acclaimed writer David Sedaris to the big screen with C.O.G., a soul-seeker dramedy adapted from one of Sedaris’ short stories. Faithful...
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Pine Ridge
Being someone who has lived in South Dakota for over twenty-years, one would assume I would know a fair amount about the Pine Ridge reservation located near the Badlands of South Dakota, but the truth is most people (even...
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Mademoiselle C
A documentary portrait of a fashion “goddess” whose most vivacious and interesting golden days are behind her, Mademoiselle C is so formless and banal that it’ll only appeal to those already obsessed with and privy to the glammy, kissy-kissy...
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Gravity
Full disclosure: I personally do not like 3D movies, I feel that they are distracting to the true art of filmmaking. That being said, I saw the advanced screening of Gravity in 3D, however, my review would likely be...
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Museum Hours
In director Jem Cohen’s Museum Hours, a late-middle-aged Viennese museum patrolman and a Canadian tourist share a ruminative brief encounter, like an older, wiser, more meditative version of Sofia Coppola’s Lost in Translation or Richard Linklater’s Before series. The...
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TIFF 2013: Top 20 Films of the Festival
Over the last 2 weeks my opinions have changed towards some of the films I’ve seen. Watching up to 4 films in one day can be exhausting, and sometimes through reflection films can seem better or worse in retrospect....
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TIFF 2013: Stranger By The Lake & Moebius
Having missed Blue is the Warmest Colour at TIFF this year, I went for another gay-themed film from Cannes: Alain Guiraudie’s Stranger By The Lake. Blue might have won the Palme D’Or, but Stranger actually took home the Queer...
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Interview: Haifaa Al-Mansour of Wadjda
Haifaa Al-Mansour’s new film, Wadjda, is the first movie in history to be filmed entirely in Saudi Arabia, and it’s doubly amazing that the film is helmed by a woman in a country that’s segregated women from men for...
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Interview: Ninetto Davoli
This past weekend in San Francisco, the U.S. tour of the Pier Paolo Pasolini Film Series, a collection of all of the director’s films restored gorgeously on 35mm prints, moved, shocked, and rattled the Bay Area community just as...
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Giveaway: The East Blu-ray
Zal Batmanglij’s The East arrives on Blu-ray and DVD today and we are celebrating by giving away a copy of the film on Blu-ray to two of our Way Too Indie readers. The East follows an ambitious new recruit...
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Wadjda
In perhaps the most definitive image of Wadjda, the titular 10-year-old girl’s bright, zealous eyes track a green bicycle as it appears to glide across the top of a stone wall alongside a dusty road, riderless, like a vision...
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