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Frameline Reviews: In the Name of & GBF
Film Festival | Bernard Boo | July 1, 2013In the Name of Polish star Andrzej Chyra plays priest Adam, unusually hip and good-looking for a man of god, in Malgorzata Szumowska’s pensive character study, In the Name of. The film explores a loaded (if somewhat dated) issue—homosexuality...
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Byzantium
Movie | Bernard Boo | July 1, 2013Since the advent of color in film, gushing red stuff has been one of cinema’s most enduring images—the sight of blood seldom fails to trigger something in us. Blood can be spectacular (Kill Bill), repulsive (Evil Dead), or erotic...
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Watch: August: Osage County trailer
Trailer | Amy Priest | June 29, 2013Containing an all-star cast including, Meryl Streep, Julia Roberts, Ewan McGregor and Juliette Lewis, comes a dramatic comedy based on the play by Tracy Letts. The film will be produced by George Clooney and Harvey Weinstein (amongst others) and...
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Watch: Drinking Buddies trailer
Trailer | Dustin Jansick | June 28, 2013The majority of Joe Swanberg’s directorial career has been making micro-budget indie films such as Kissing on the Mouth, LOL, and Hannah Takes the Stairs, which many consider to be early pioneers of the mumblecore (yes, I said it)...
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Way Too Indie’s Best Films of 2013 (So Far)
Features | Dustin Jansick | June 28, 2013For this monthly staff feature we came to the conclusion that because not everyone on the staff has been to the same festivals, thus having the opportunities to see the same films, that each writer from the staff would...
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Generation Um
Movie | Dustin Jansick | June 27, 2013One probably expects a film starring Keanu Reeves would be filled with action, but aside from one scene (two if you count watching him eat an entire cupcake), Generation Um is a slower character-driven film that plays off Reeve’s...
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The Out List (Frameline37 Review)
Movie | Bernard Boo | June 27, 2013In The Out List—the newest entry in the forward-thinking HBO interview series that started with The Black List Volumes 1-3 and The Latino List—director Timothy Greenfield-Sanders sits both high and low-profile members of the gay community in front of...
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Interview: Timothy Greenfield-Sanders of The Out List
Interview | Bernard Boo | June 26, 2013Director/photographer Timothy Greenfield-Sanders has pointed his camera at some of the most famous and important people in the past 50 years—Barack Obama, Alfred Hitchcock, Hilary Clinton, Jimmy Carter—and his portraits have been featured in the Museum of Modern Art...
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Side Effects
Movie | Dustin Jansick | June 26, 2013Utilizing the script from Scott Z. Burns, Steven Soderbergh delivers a mostly satisfying thriller that presents several twists and turns along the way to keep the audience guessing until the very end. Side Effects starts off as a film...
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The Purge
Movie | Blake Ginithan | June 25, 2013The Purge, a new film starring Ethan Hawke, is a great example of taking an interesting idea and dumbing it down. The idea is interesting; one day a year for 12 hours during what is called the Purge, all...
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LA Film Fest Reviews: Only God Forgives, Lesson of Evil, The Conjuring
Film Festival | Jacob Tishler | June 25, 2013Only God Forgives Only God Forgives is director Nicholas Winding Refn’s most bizarre film yet, even more so than the inter-dimensional Viking picture Valhalla Rising. The marketing for his new film suggests an extension of the beloved Ryan Gosling...
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Frameline37 Reviews: Bwakaw, The Campaign, Big Words
Film Festival | Bernard Boo | June 25, 2013Bwakaw Veteran Filipino actor Eddie Garcia puts on a staggeringly heartfelt performance as Rene, an unimaginably (and hilarious) grumpy old man with a dream-crushing mean streak. Bwakaw is set in an unremarkable (though picturesque) village in the Philippines, Rene...
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Warm Bodies
Movie | Amy Priest | June 24, 2013With its global distribution earlier this year, Warm Bodies seemed to be just another one of Hollywood’s pumped out blockbusters, and I myself skipped it at the cinemas due to this exact reason – “it was just another cliché...
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Frameline37 Reviews: C.O.G. & Breaking the Girls
Film Festival | Bernard Boo | June 23, 2013C.O.G. At long last, David Sedaris has allowed one of his essays to be adapted to film. With director Kyle Patrick Alvarez (Easier With Practice) at the helm, C.O.G. is a respectably interesting indie soul-seeker drama, but it’s unfortunately...