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A Conversation With Kat Candler (HELLION)

Michael Tully — Thu, 12 Jun 2014 21:17:41 +0000

Kat Candler has been making films for over a decade now, but it wasn’t until this year’s Sundance Film Festival that she found herself stepping all the way into the spotlight. The feature-length adaptation of her Sundance approved 2012 short, […]

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A Conversation With Chad Hartigan (THIS IS MARTIN BONNER)

Michael Tully — Wed, 14 Aug 2013 15:28:24 +0000

Chad Hartigan’s 2008 debut feature, Luke and Brie Are On A First Date, was a humble little micro-budget affair about a budding romance between young 20-somethings in Los Angeles. Watching This Is Martin Bonner (official website), you’d be forgiven for […]

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A Conversation With Alex Ross Perry (THE COLOR WHEEL)

Michael Tully — Fri, 18 May 2012 16:38:42 +0000

Since the long planned HTN conversation between myself and Alex Ross Perry was also shaping up to be his last—at least with regards to his film The Color Wheel‘s impending theatrical release in New York City (on Friday, May 18, […]

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SHAME

Thu, 01 Dec 2011 16:06:11 +0000

Steve McQueen’s follow-up to one of the most astonishing cinematic debuts in recent memory is just as interested as 2008’s Hunger in the collision of the physical and the psychological, of how the fluttering of the mind drives and punishes the body.

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LBS.

Michael Tully — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 14:29:26 +0000

(Released by Truly Indie, Lbs. opens in New York City on Friday, March 26, 2010, before expanding to more cities across the country. Visit the film’s official website to learn more.) Lbs. feels like one of those movies that was […]

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A Spectacular Weekend of Movie Watching In Actual Theaters – Thursday March 5th Through Sunday March 8th

Michael Tully — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 20:09:54 +0000

First off, let me just say that this post isn’t being written as a taunt to non-New Yorkers. But when a weekend like this arrives, it mustn’t just be recognized, it must be hoorayed! For those of you who won’t […]

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New York Film Festival Report, Part One: CHE and HUNGER

Nelson Kim — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 08:31:14 +0000

By a strange coincidence, I saw the second NYFF screening of Steve McQueen’s debut feature Hunger the night before I attended the press screening of Steven Soderbergh’s long-awaited Che. Why strange, why coincidental? Because the two movies shared so much […]

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