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THE LONG WALK

Sammy Levine — Sat, 19 Feb 2022 19:31:09 +0000

(Check out Sammy Levine’s movie review of Mattie Do’s The Long Walk. You can stream the film right now on Metrograph, just click this link! ) Laotian director Mattie Do’s The Long Walk is an impressionistic ghost story overflowing with ideas on […]

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Mike S. Ryan’s SXSW 2016 Wrap-Up

Mike S. Ryan — Mon, 28 Mar 2016 20:31:24 +0000

As always the SXSW challenge is trying to find those gems that come out of nowhere. Most of the titles that are in the “Visions” and “Narrative Competition” categories have no buzz because no one except the programmers have seen […]

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SUN VALLEY FILM FESTIVAL ’14: WRAP-UP

Thu, 20 Mar 2014 20:04:31 +0000

“I could see this being the next Park City a few years down the line,” one filmmaker said to me about halfway through the 2014 Sun Valley Film Festival. “Both festivals even have the same first syllable.” It’s ostensibly an […]

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WATCH NEW MOVIES AT HOME — AUGUST ’13

Michael Tully — Mon, 05 Aug 2013 20:17:14 +0000

First things first: by changing our previously named “VOD Picks” post to “*Watch New Movies At Home*,” we aren’t telling you to ditch movie theaters in favor of staying glued to your comfy couches. It’s just that now more than […]

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BAMcinemaFest 2013 — An Overview

Michael Tully — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 14:30:03 +0000

Are you ready, New York City movie lovers, for the finest American independent film festival showcase your monstrous city has to offer? If so, then good, because BAMcinemaFest is back. This year’s edition runs from Wednesday, June 19th, through Friday, […]

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UPSTREAM COLOR

Nelson Kim — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 14:04:26 +0000

(Upstream Color is now available on DVD, Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack, and at Amazon Instant. It world premiered at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival in January. It opens theatrically in New York on Friday, April 5, and will roll out to […]

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NEW DIRECTORS/NEW FILMS 2013 — HTN PICKS!

Michael Tully — Wed, 20 Mar 2013 16:11:34 +0000

Another edition of New Directors/New Films has arrived, you lucky New York Cityers, which means the time has come once again to lace up your comfiest walking shoes and jet back-and-forth between MoMA and the Film Society of Lincoln Center […]

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SUNDANCE ‘13: The NEXT Section Comes Into Focus

Mike S. Ryan — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 21:21:07 +0000

When the NEXT section was launched a few years ago by the powers-that-be at the Sundance Film Festival, it replaced the American Spectrum sidebar that originated during the Gilmore years. It was a section that was created to accommodate low/micro-budget […]

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