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SOMETHING TO MUMBLE ABOUT

By | December 2008

One of the few criticisms leveled at the SXSW Film Festival is the seemingly annual programming of films from the “mumblecore” filmmaking camp. Film Threat goes the extra mile to find out if there’s anything to the criticism by speaking with SXSW Festival Producer Matt Dentler and “mumblecore” poster-boy Joe Swanberg…

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SOMETHING TO MUMBLE ABOUT

Originally ran on FilmThreat.com on 03/11/08 Mumblecore. There, I said it and I’m going to do my best to not repeat the indie film catch phrase again......

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CHUNGKING EXPRESS

Slow dancing with the love of your life on New Year’s. Teaching the girl you secretly love how to drive a car. Smelling the back of your girlfriend’s...

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THIRST

Two couples venture into the desert for an amateur photo shoot. Swerving to avoid a wolf, their car crashes. A struggle for survival in blazing heat...

WILL POWER: INTERVIEW WITH CLAYMATION PIONEER WILL VINTON

Originally ran on FilmThreat.com on 02/20/08 Will Vinton sports both the shiny, bald bean of Lex Luthor, and the untamed handlebar mustache of Yosemite...

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NOTHING LIKE THE HOLIDAYS

There are nights when I devour a film, slipping myself into the characters and their failures and successes. On other nights, however, I prefer to sink...

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THE MESS

Subtext seems at the forefront of writer-director Art D’Alessandro’s short. A middle-aged man in a white shirt and tie comes home from work. Things are...

DUPLASS BROTHERS BECOME THE “BAGHEAD” BROTHERS

Originally ran on FilmThreat.com on 01/24/08 After a few truly great short films, writer/director brothers Jay and Mark Duplass smacked a homerun with...

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ZOMBIE CHEERLEADING CAMP

This plays like the final class project at a second rate community college. It’s barely worthy of direct-to-video. The story, what little there is,...

DOES SIZE MATTER? THE LONGEST TITLES IN MOVIE HISTORY

Originally ran on FilmThreat.com on 01/11/08 Two of the movies opening this week are unlikely to make an appearance on any “best of 2008” or awards...

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SWIMMING TO THE MOON

Just in time for the holidays, it’s a short about suicide – wheeeeeeee! A lonely television journalist, Dana Long, eats at a Chinese Restaurant on...

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