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PRIMATE CINEMA: APES AS FAMILY

By | January 2013

2013 SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL SHORT FILM SELECTION! Thus is an entirely unique short that lives up to its billing, raising questions about the effects of media on our chimpanzee relatives…

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PRIMATE CINEMA: APES AS FAMILY

Billed as the "world's first narrative short domestic drama specifically for the chimpanzee demographic," filmmaker Rachel Mayeri's Primate Cinema: Apes As...

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CRYSTAL FAIRY

Writer/director Sebastian Silva (The Maid) and star Michael Cera ran out of money while making Magic Magic (also premiering at this year’s Sundance Film...

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WHO IS DAYANI CRISTAL?

On August 3, 2010, a body of a man was found under a tree in in the Sonoran desert in Arizona. Like so many bodies found on the deadly, vast landscape...

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TWENTY FEET FROM STARDOM

This review was originally published on January 20, 2013... Sundance features no shortage of ultra-timely documentaries this year – including ones...

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THE SANDWICH NAZI

As Lewis Bennett's short film The Sandwich Nazi opens, we meet subject Salam Kahil as he regales the customers at his deli with a tale of a sexual...

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THE CAPSULE

When Attenberg made the festival rounds in 2011, it seemed easy to pigeonhole Athina Rachel Tsangari as merely part of whatever cinematic weirdness was...

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INTERIOR. LEATHER BAR.

William Friedkin's 1980 film Cruising, starring Al Pacino as a cop who goes undercover to find a killer in New York City's gay, S&M-friendly leather bar...

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SIGHTSEERS

Ben Wheatley makes films about unsavory Britons who murder people. This was the director's M.O. on his first two outings, Down Terrace and Kill List, and...

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HANK AND ASHA

Asha (Mahira Kakkar) is a film student in Prague, who sends a video message to Hank (Andrew Pastides), a filmmaker in New York City whose film Asha saw at...

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THE INSTITUTE

Spencer McCall's documentary The Institute takes a look at a fantastical alternate reality game that played out around San Francisco from 2008 to 2011....

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