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Metrograph Presents: It Happens To Us: Abortion In American Film (OBVIOUS CHILD)

Christopher Reed — Thu, 19 May 2022 17:10:53 +0000

(Obvious Child is a featured film in the Metrograph series It Happens to Us: Abortion in American Film which is playing through may 21 both at the Metrograph and online with 50% of all proceeds going to NARAL Pro-Choice America.) Obvious Child, the first feature […]

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WE’RE ALL GOING TO THE WORLD’S FAIR

Mike S. Ryan — Mon, 21 Jun 2021 21:10:38 +0000

(After its premiere at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival, Jane Schoenbrun‘s We’re All Going to the World’s Fair continues its impressive festival run, including a showing this week at New Directors/New Films.) Jane Schoenbrun’s film opens with an 8-minute-long fixed-camera shot of […]

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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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SUNDANCE ’15: MIKE S. RYAN’S WRAP-UP

Mike S. Ryan — Mon, 09 Feb 2015 19:35:59 +0000

Just a quick refresher course, since it’s hard to believe, but it’s actually been some six-plus years since the sky fell and the bottom dropped out of the Indie Bubble. In the fall of 2008, the US financial markets suffered […]

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SUNLIGHT JR.

Wed, 13 Nov 2013 14:00:07 +0000

While I appreciated her film's craft, ultimately this was far less important to me than Laurie Collyer’s willingness to frame a question of reproductive rights in such a realistic way.

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DVD RELEASES – 2010/2/23

Michael Tully — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 09:08:06 +0000

This is one of those weeks when the number of movies I can personally recommend pales in comparison to those new releases that I haven’t actually seen but plan to add to my Netflix queue. Highly Recommended The Informant! (Warner […]

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HALF-LIFE

Mike S. Ryan — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 12:17:39 +0000

(Half-Life is now available on DVD through Wolfe Video and Digital VOD through Warner Digital VOD. It’s also screening on Saturday, January 9, 2010, at the 92YTribeca at 7:30pm. Visit the film’s official website to learn more and watch the […]

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A Conversation With Ramin Bahrani (GOODBYE SOLO)

Michael Tully — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 10:34:06 +0000

After only three features, Ramin Bahrani has quickly established himself as one of American independent cinema’s most accomplished new voices. His first two films, Man Push Cart and Chop Shop, were social realist tales featuring marginalized characters living in New […]

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NEW YEAR PARADE, THE

Mike S. Ryan — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 11:01:36 +0000

(The New Year Parade is now available on DVD through Carnivalesque Films. Visit the film’s official website to watch the trailer.) A local Austin record collector was telling me about a group of 1940s era Western Swing 78rpm records that […]

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