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Cloud Atlas by Andy Wachowski, Lana Wachowski, and Tom Tykwer
It's kind of amazing. In posting the trailer for this, I had to watch it from beginning to end. Normally, I just grab the link and hit pause, because I don't want to be bothered. But that only proves what Cloud Atlas can do, if you let it take hold. Oh, don't get me wrong. This is overly-long (though it didn't feel like it); ...
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Room 237 by Rodney Ascher
A fascinating documentary made up of interviews with several people who claim to have found the secret meanings behind Stanley Kubrick's The Shining. They range from a history of the European slaughter of the Indians to the film serving as Kubrick's admission that he helped the US government forge ...
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Frances Ha by Noah Baumbach
Greta Gerwig made her debut as an actress in Joe Swanberg's LOL (Swanberg was at this past April's festival favorite V/H/S). She then wrote the screenplay for and starred in Swanberg's next film, Hannah Takes the Stairs (NaFF 2007). She also wrote the screenplay for and stars in Noah Baumbach's latest, Frances ...| No Comments | Read
After a day spent in darkness (literally that of the theater and the metaphoric darkness of nearly everything I saw yesterday), I'm glad to report that there is lightness in cinema. And it's not all the flyaway lightness of most Hollywood cinema; it was more light like a good stir-fry - filling but not leaving you feeling so full you can't move on.
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Stories We Tell by Sarah Polley
Sarah Polley is best known for her ...
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Nashville native, documentary filmmaker and a lover hot sauce.
