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TUiW Goes to the 2011 SavFF: The Artist
Over the course of the last week, I heard several friends tell me they weren’t going to last night’s opening film, The Artist, because they didn’t think they’d have any interest in seeing a silent, black and white French film. … Continue reading
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TUiW Goes to the Savannah Film Festival, Days 7 & 8
Made in Dagenham Of all the feature films at the festival, this was the one I was least excited to see, but was pleasantly surprised. Sally Hawkins gives a great performance as the leader of a group of machinists at … Continue reading
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TUiW Goes to the Savannah Film Festival, Day 6
Earthwork The true story of Stan Herd, an artist who with the help of several homeless men, created landscape art out a vacant lot in New York, Earthwork is the kind of film you want to like, but end up … Continue reading
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TUiW Goes to the Savannah Film Festival, Day 5
The Illusionist Fans of animation must do anything in their power to go see The Illusionist, the gorgeous French film from the studio that made the Oscar nominated Triplets of Belville. Should Toy Story 3 get nominated for Best Picture, … Continue reading
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TUiW Goes to the Savannah Film Festival, Day 4
Sudden Death! My first taste of the big screen on Tuesday came with the charming musical short Sudden Death! With everyone dying from Sudden Death Syndrome, which causes them to break into song and dance right before they die, two … Continue reading
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TUiW Goes to the Savannah Film Festival: Days 2 & 3
TUiW is spending the week at the Savannah Film Festival. Stay tuned here and on Twitter for more. Rabbit Hole John Cameron Mitchell’ latest effort has only been on the festival circuit for about two months, yet it has generated … Continue reading
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TUiW Goes to the Savannah Film Festival: Day 1
If you thought TUiW was off the festival circuit, you were wrong! Hot off the tails of Jonah’s trip to the Austin Film Fest, I’ll be spending the week at the Savannah Film Festival in Savannah, GA, which features an … Continue reading
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TUiW Goes to the Austin Film Festival: Day 7
Black Swan Review: If you feel like Darren Aronofsky may be softening, with the great but relatively straightforward The Wrestler and the news that he’s directing Wolverine 2, that’s just because you haven’t seen Black Swan, his batty new film … Continue reading
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TUiW Goes to the Austin Film Festival: Day 6
Fair Game: Review: On Friday, Wikileaks released thousands and thousands of documents showing the Iraq War to be even more violent and poorly managed than we thought. Even as our presence there is decreasing (but still FAR from 0), it … Continue reading
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TUiW Goes to the Austin Film Festival: Days 2-4
Blue Valentine Derek Cianfrance’s emotionally apocalyptic depiction of a crumbling marriage seems built to capture the arthouse zeitgeist. Combining two incredibly reliable actors (Michelle Williams and Ryan Gosling) and borrowing from a number of different touchstones (500 Days’ of Summer‘s … Continue reading
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