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"BRIDESMAIDS" REVISITED: TOP 11 REASONS IT WAS STRANGELY DISAPPOINTING

By | December 2011

To be clear, I found “Bridesmaids” to be genuinely entertaining and I’m happy it’s getting awards consideration this season. That said, I saw it in its third or fourth week of general release last summer and I couldn’t help but feel disappointed in a few ways – some objective, some not so much…

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"BRIDESMAIDS" REVISITED: TOP 11 REASONS IT WAS STRANGELY DISAPPOINTING

As the awards season brings a renewed - and mostly well-deserved - attention to the film Bridesmaids, I feel it might be worth revisiting. To be clear, I...

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FILM FESTIVAL NOTEBOOK WITH HEIDI VAN LIER: CHICAGO KICKSTARTER TOUR

Indie filmmaker Heidi Van Lier snaps pix on her festival and film journeys around the world. This week, Heidi shares photos from her recent visit to...

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A YEAR WITHOUT RENT: DAY EIGHT OF "THE STAGG DO"

Between Day 7 and 8 of THE STAGG DO was a day off. Being filmmakers, we obviously all got drunk the night before the off day, then spent that day hung...

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A YEAR WITHOUT RENT: DAY SEVEN OF "THE STAGG DO"

There's a lot of things you can do wrong as a film production, and if you've been paying attention to our coverage of THE STAGG DO, you'll notice that...

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A YEAR WITHOUT RENT: DAY FIVE OF "THE STAGG DO"

On Day 5, it stopped raining. For the length of the production, the out-of-town chunk of the production (myself, Ben Moseley, AD Jennifer Hegarty,...

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A YEAR WITHOUT RENT: DAY SIX OF "THE STAGG DO"

It's easy to think of quitting as a singular action, a "fuck you" to whomever you feel has wronged you. After all, no one quits because they're slightly...

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A YEAR WITHOUT RENT: DAY FOUR OF "THE STAGG DO"

One good thing about a justified bit of yelling is that sometimes things get fixed. Gone are yesterday's flimsy garbage bags. Today we've got new,...

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A YEAR WITHOUT RENT: DAY THREE OF "THE STAGG DO"

For the first time in A Year Without Rent, I took zero pictures. Yes, zero. You'll see 2 pictures in this post. Someone else took them. But why? One word:...

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A YEAR WITHOUT RENT: DAY TWO OF "THE STAGG DO"

Few things in micro budget indie film are easier than being the gaffer when shooting a field far away from electricity. There's really no way you can...

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A YEAR WITHOUT RENT: DAY ONE OF "THE STAGG DO"

In the original planning for A Year Without Rent, I wasn't supposed to leave the country. It just wasn't in the budget. And sure, there were jokes about A...

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