SXSW Film Festival: Animals

SXSW Film Festival: Animals
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Sometimes a film or a work of art or a piece of music tries to tell you something, in a whisper, barely audible so you have lean in real close, and really listen. Other times it shouts what it wants to tell you from 3 feet away so that nobody could misunderstand or mishear it. I prefer the former. No need to shout, I’m a good listener, I can understand what you’re saying without hearing a word. Pandering to your audience is a good way to win awards, sure, but what I really want when I watch a movie is something that challenges the way I think and exist.
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Leave The World Behind: An Interview with SXSW Filmmaker Christian Larson

Leave The World Behind: An Interview with SXSW Filmmaker Christian...
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True passion for collaboration and subject matter is demonstrated in director Christian Larson’s new documentary, Leave It All Behind, a film following Swedish House Mafia on their farewell tour around the world. … read more

SXSW Film Festival: Thank You a Lot

SXSW Film Festival: Thank You a Lot
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Texan director Matt Muir’s Thank You a Lot is the sort of film you find yourself watching late at night in a hotel room in the middle of Idaho or Nevada. For some reason, you never manage to change the channel. … read more

SXSW Film Festival: Sequoia

SXSW Film Festival: Sequoia
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Andy Landen’s Sequoia, while suffering from some problems with clichéd characters—its cast looks like a mix of privileged if troubled film students and out-of-work soap stars—actually takes some serious risks in terms of subject matter. … read more

SXSW Film Festival: The Infinite Man

SXSW Film Festival: The Infinite Man
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Director Hugh Sullivan leads this awkward yet charming tale of jealousy and redemption with a delightful cast of characters. McConville is provided with the entertaining opportunity to portray a love-starved mess to a conniving mastermind as his versions compete against one another. … read more

Slamdance Film Review: Three Night Stand

Slamdance Film Review: Three Night Stand
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Trying to get away for a weekend and focus on their relationship, Carl takes his wife Sue to a mountain lodge for some skiing and wine tasting. Unfortunately for Carl, upon arrival, he discovers that his ex-girlfriend Robyn—who he used to bring quite often to the same lodge back in the day—is now the owner of the lodge. Wackiness ensues as Carl tries to keep as much of his previous relationship hidden from his wife as possible.
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Slamdance Film Review: We Keep On Dancing

Slamdance Film Review: We Keep On Dancing
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In this touching short film about reminiscence, Jessica Barclay Lawton reminds her audience that the things we keep in our memories and our hearts are never truly gone from our lives. When Alan brings in a very old, very out of condition VW to the mechanic Danny, we soon learn that the car was much more to Alan than something to get him from A to B.
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Slamdance Film Review: Forever Not Alone

Slamdance Film Review: Forever Not Alone
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Walking into this documentary about a group of immature, teenage girls, I can honestly say I had very low expectations, and, if I’m being completely honest, I only reviewed this film because I lost a coin toss. Now, that being said, I was completely blown away by Forever Not Alone. 
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Slamdance Film Review: Love Letter

Slamdance Film Review: Love Letter
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Using a combination of live action, animation and puppetry in this short film, Lindsey Martin offers the tale of a young girl who creates an imaginary earth-worm friend to help her make sense of a strange “love letter” from her father to her mother, but as the worm points out her concerns and fears around her parents’ seemingly doomed relationship, the girl must face the worm head on or risk being consumed by her own worry.
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Slamdance Film Review: Glass Eyes of Locust Bayou

Slamdance Film Review: Glass Eyes of Locust Bayou
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Director Simon Mercer provides a look at the lifetime of work by amateur filmmaker Phil Chambliss. Toiling from a (very) small town in Arkansas, Chambliss has been using his friends and fellow citizens—and the striking Arkansas backdrop—to fashion films of his own, unique creation for over 30 years.
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