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Mike S. Ryan’s Sundance 2016 Wrap-Up

Mike S. Ryan — Tue, 09 Feb 2016 22:31:06 +0000

Sundance 2016, the post collapse world has begun with a new set of questions. Sundance 2008 was the last of the “Sundance go- go years.” Hamlet 2 was the top purchase that year for $12 million but there were also […]

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A Conversation With Drew Tobia (SEE YOU NEXT TUESDAY)

Wed, 20 Aug 2014 16:01:01 +0000

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 shorts he had made […]

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“In Conversation With Todd Solondz” (w/ David Carr at the 2012 Sarasota Film Festival)

Michael Tully — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 13:20:50 +0000

[This “In Conversation With Todd Solondz” took place on Sunday, April 22, 2012, as part of the 2012 Sarasota Film Festival. This goal of this transcription was to preserve everything that was said while containing the necessary clean-up that would […]

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A Conversation With Hossein Keshavarz and Maryam Azadi (DOG SWEAT)

Nelson Kim — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 14:30:13 +0000

In the debased language of much mainstream movie commentary, a filmmaker is described as “brave” for casting a Hollywood star against type, and actors are commended for “taking risks” if they defer their usual eight-figure salary for back-end profit participation. […]

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3 BACKYARDS

Mike S. Ryan — Mon, 14 Mar 2011 16:00:31 +0000

3 Backyards is a truly ambitious and inventive work that speaks not only through acting and plot, but through Eric Mendelsohn’s savvy directorial control of music, lensing and pacing.

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MILLION DOLLAR BABY And The Lost Art of the Metaphor by Noah Buschel

Noah Buschel — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 18:21:58 +0000

I know a lot of people don’t think much of Million Dollar Baby. The screenwriter was a long time Scientologist and bequeathed on us the atrocity called Crash. There’s a grouchy priest who says wise, grouchy things. And shit, if […]

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FORGOTTEN PHOENIX by Noah Buschel

Noah Buschel — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 20:18:44 +0000

(Having been genuinely moved by filmmaker Noah Buschel’s recent piece at Filmmaker Magazine titled “The Loneliness of the Long Distance Filmmaker,” we were thrilled to receive a new batch of essays from Buschel himself, which we are very proud to […]

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