team picture director kentucker audley number 5 from indie distributor benten films team picture shares the mum blecore8 221 lofi slacker ethos of previous releases like lol review and quiet city review and the rural workingclass setting of the guatemalan handshake review . but the film it reminds me of most is frank v. ross8217......
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the trailer for synecdoche ny has been all around the interweb lately and it looks fantastic. written and directed by the ingenious charlie kaufman synechdoche has had critiques babbling about it since it premiered at cannes. the directorial debut of screenwriter charlie kaufman eternal sunshine of the spotless mind adaptation synecdoche new york is a sprawling messy wo......
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texas snow has been selected to screen at the free range film festival on friday july 25th at 925pm.a it looks to be a great festival.a it looks like our composer keegan dewitt has two films in the festival with quiet city playing on saturday july 26th. i must say im diggin their very simple description of the film mumblecore is an exciting new movement in indepen......
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...m the films theatrical premieres and six short films directed by members of the cast and crew. the guatemalan handshake is available on dvd on april 29th for more information visit httpwww .bentenfil ms.com .......
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i dont know if youre like me and have become sick and tired of independent films with their cute casts of eccentrics and the even cuter child that leads them all to enlightenment for something supposedly independent these movies are all beginning to look and sound alike. to be fair this judgement is based on those movies which make it out of the festival circuit with some sort of d......
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yeah yeah who asked for another yearend list im burnt out on them myself not to mention just plain burnt out but my plate aint cleared enough to relax through the holidays benten films has just begun spreading the word on our january 29th dvd release of quiet city dance party usa 2 films by aaron katz . our man has a pretty damn good shot to win a 2008 indie spirit ......
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while the only new york film festival press conference this week that anyones given two shakes about is the one where brian de palma blames distributor magnolia pictures for redacting his redacted redact it more i decry its a lousy pictureq uot i myself took serious umbrage with a different qa altogether since i cant blame mr. de palma f......
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i would be more than remiss was i not to mention how huge a day today is for two friends of mine andrew film brainquot grant and aaron cinephiliac or rather imto obusyget tingpaid towritet oupdatem ysitequo t hillis . about a month ago the two of them announced something i had heard rumblings about for over a year from andrew the formation of benten films their v......
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as many of my six or eight readers know benten films the new yorkbased boutique dvd label for cinephiles curated by both andrew grant and myself is beyond thrilled to release its first title on august 28th joe swanbergs lol . the timing is profoundly spoton as joes next film hannah takes the stairs debuts on august 22nd as one of the headliners in the if......
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