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Roger Corman at Sundance: ‘The State of Indie Filmmaking is Better Than Its Ever Been’

Posted on January 28, 2011 by | Leave a comment

Considering he’s been making movies for almost sixty years, you might find it a bit surprising that director/producer Roger Corman thinks this is the best time for indie filmmakers to express themselves creatively. Getting those expressions distributed, though, is another matter entirely. Ahead, watch Movieline’s Alonso Duralde chat with Corman and director Alex Stapleton about her documentary Corman’s World , independent films, and which Sundance entry the legendary director loves on the title alone. (Hints: Hobo. Shotgun.)

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DVD: This Weekend, Blow Your Mind and Get Caught Up on Oscar Nominees

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There are those DVD s you throw in at the end of a long work day to decompress, turn off your brain, and have a few laughs. Three new titles out this week don’t fall anywhere near that category. Trust me. Two of them will bombard you with sights and sounds that are like almost nothing you’ve ever seen before, and the other one is a disturbing and twisty dysfunctional family story that somehow snuck past the Academy gatekeepers and scored a Best Foreign Film Oscar nomination.

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10 Great Movies of 2010 That Will Not Be Recognized by the Academy

Posted on December 14, 2010 by | Comments Off

As this week’s influx of critics group awards and Golden Globe nominations can confirm, there are really only a handful of films that will be up for Academy Awards in February. (See: The King’s Speech , The Social Network , The Fighter , The Kids Are All Right and Black Swan .) Every year, though, the Academy not only overlooks great performances , but also a number of great films as well; some are too small, some are too broad, and in the case of documentaries, some just didn’t make the first shortlist . With that in mind, let’s step outside the fog of Oscar buzz for a second and take a look at 10 deserving films of 2010.

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REVIEW: Perverse Dogtooth Wins With Sickness and Slickness

Posted on June 23, 2010 by | Leave a comment

I know of a 100-year-old woman who still thought of her 69-year-old son as her “boy”; when she died last year he mourned the loss of his status as somebody’s child. Such feelings endure naturally enough: Most of us are born into a familial or relational structure that shapes — along with just about everything else — how we identify ourselves. The trick is in the balance — the difference, say, between “You’ll always be my little boy” and ” You’ll always be my little boy. ” Some parents struggle to keep absolute power from corrupting their best intentions, as Cyrus ‘s creepily co-dependent mother and son pointed out, to comic effect. The limning of those boundaries is often played for laughs; the alternative is very dark indeed. Swap those laughs for a kind of mordant horror and you get Dogtooth , a brightly lit nightmare of patriarchy run amok.