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BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILD

Beasts of the Southern Wild is spirituality on celluloid.

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Outfest 2012 — A Preview

Outfest 2012—July 12th through 22nd—looks like it’s gonna be a particularly fired-up festival, with docs about activism at its core and plenty of adventurous filmmaking in the lineup. There are a lot...

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BORSCHT 8 FILM FESTIVAL

If I had to sum up the Borscht Film Festival in one word it would be ‘youth.’ The Borscht Corp collective dates back to high school friendships formed at Miami’s New World School of the Arts, and from...

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KID-THING

In KID-THING, the Zellner Bros.’ second feature film, Annie, the titular character, is in every way on her own, roaming the fields and alleyways of rural Texas with paintball gun and aluminum bat in...

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SXSW ’14: JESSE KLEIN’S WRAP-UP

There were a ton of wonderful films this year at SXSW. Here are a few that stood out. Person To Person (Dustin Guy Defa, 18m) Winner of the DAAD Short Film Prize at the Berlin Film Festival and now...

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SXSW ’14: MIKE S. RYAN’S WRAP-UP

On a panel called “Is This The 21st Century Media Conglomerate?”, the golden era dynamic duo (I mean golden literally, as in gold/money) of John Pierson and John Sloss tossed around various views of...

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SXSW ’14: TULLY’S WRAP-UP

This year, my wrap-up is unofficially sponsored by AT&T, who for the past year (some said they’ve done this in previous years but I sure never noticed it) has been setting up little white lockers...

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A Conversation With Eliza Hittman (IT FELT LIKE LOVE)

(It Felt Like Love is now available on home video through Lorber Films: DVD, Amazon Instant, iTunes. It world premiered at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival and was distributed theatrically by Variance...

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A Conversation With Megan Griffiths (LUCKY THEM)

(Lucky Them world premiered at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival and is now available on VOD through IFC Films. It opened theatrically in NYC on May 30, 2014, and opens in Los Angeles on...

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A Conversation With Drew Tobia (SEE YOU NEXT TUESDAY)

I met Drew Tobia at the 2009 Boston Underground Film Festival, after a screening of my movie Modern Love is Automatic (read Lena Dunham’s HTN review right here). He handed me a DVD with a bunch of...

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A Conversation with Colin Hanks (All Things Must Pass)

(Colin Hanks has been defining himself as a solid character actor over the years and his feature directorial debut All Things Must Pass, a documentary about the lifespan of the iconic Tower Records...

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A Conversation With Joe Frank and Zack Reed (SWEATY BETTY)

(Sweaty Betty made it’s world premiere at the 2015 SXSW Film Festival. While the film is a hybrid documentary/narrative, it was placed in the Narrative Competition category where it received positive...

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SXSW ’15: TULLY’S WRAP-UP

Including two titles I’d seen before the 2015 SXSW Film Festival kicked off (read my reviews of Western and Entertainment if you haven’t already), I managed to catch 22 features this year. Which is to...

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A Conversation with Rick Alverson (Entertainment)

(Entertainment had its world premiere at Sundance, then went on to play at SXSW and was finally snatched up by a distributor, Magnolia Pictures. It’s set for a November 13th release date but is still...

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A Conversation With John Magary (THE MEND)

I wrote this about John Magary’s The Mend in my SXSW ’14 Wrap-Up, where I awarded it my own personal Narrative Grand Jury Prize: Oh, to sit down in a theater for an 11am screening, feeling a bit...

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FINDERS KEEPERS

"Finders Keepers" made waves at both Sundance and SXSW this year and how could it not? It's a documentary about two men fighting over a real-life human foot! But beneath this crazy story is a heartfelt...

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SXSW ’14: JESSE KLEIN’S WRAP-UP

There were a ton of wonderful films this year at SXSW. Here are a few that stood out. Person To Person (Dustin Guy Defa, 18m) Winner of the DAAD Short Film Prize at the Berlin Film Festival and now...

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SXSW ’14: MIKE S. RYAN’S WRAP-UP

On a panel called “Is This The 21st Century Media Conglomerate?”, the golden era dynamic duo (I mean golden literally, as in gold/money) of John Pierson and John Sloss tossed around various views of...

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