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DN SXSW10: TUB – Bobby Miller
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To say webbie award winning director, Bobby Miller hit on a strange concept for his short TUB would be a pretty large understatement, but it’s a setup that successfully straddles comedy, drama and horror. Bobby and I took the DN SXSW interview experience to the crowds and bands of [...]
DN SXSW10: The Freebie – Katie Aselton
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If you’re in a strong, loving relationship you can withstand anything right? In her debut feature, The Freebie, actor turned director Katie Aselton stress tests a couple’s marriage, when they give each other a mutual pass to a one night stand. I spoke to Katie about her move to [...]
ÉCU2010: The Shorts
Before the films started, the owner of the Cinéma le Grand Action, an intense-looking woman with miraculous cheekbones and a stubborn, unwavering coiffure that could only have been coiffed here in Paris, took center-floor to speak. She was excited and gracious, and her energy zapped away my roly-poly wine catalepsy.
Well, enough pussyfooting. I’m going to [...]
ÉCU2010: Reaching Roise – Jessica Morris
I am tumbling through a rainbow of identification tags, frantically scouring for red – a red tag means a filmmaker. In my as yet futile hunt (not for lack of red tags, but rather for penetrable conversations), I overhear someone British. This is a plus, in that it means that the only language [...]
DN SXSW2010: Junko’s Shamisen – Sol Friedman
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Alongside the feature strands, SXSW runs several shorts programmes throughout the festival, which often provide an early chance to see the work of up and coming directors. Sol Friedman’s Kabuki inspired short, Junko’s Shamisen has to be one of the most ambitious, and visually stunning pieces I’ve ever seen. [...]
BEV2010: Ella es el Matador – Celeste Carrasco & Gemma Cubero del Barrio
Just heading out to watch Ella es el Matador was a bit of a challenge in itself. I have never understood the bloodshed of bullfighting nor will I ever find it entertaining. I was aware that many of the images I was about to see would probably upset me, however when I heard the title [...]
Junko’s Shamisen – Sol Friedman
Junko’s Shamisen (2009)
Set in the rural backwoods of feudal Japan, a young peasant girl named Junko, returns home to discover her blind grandfather brutally murdered. Filled with despair, Junko, accompanied by a mystical fox spirit, abandons her old life and sets off for the village in search of better fortune. While begging, young Junko inadvertently [...]
SXSW2010: Kick-Ass
Take the question, Why hasn’t a normal person, completely lacking in super powers ever tried to become a crime fighting hero? asked by an idle, comic loving teen to his friends; extrapolate from that point and it seems the script for Kick-Ass almost writes itself. The film, which opened SXSW on Friday to much [...]
ÉCU2010: The Grand Entrance
Try as we might, it’s just impossible for us to be at every festival worthy of DN coverage. The fourth year of Paris’ European Independent Film Festival (ÉCU) is one such place. So we asked writer Moze Halperin to bring DN the lowdown on this year’s festival.
Something of a novice as far as film festivals [...]
DN SXSW10: His & Hers – Ken Wardrop
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It’s been a long time coming but I’ve finally packed the DN bags, jumped on a plane and hit the indie directors’ favourite film festival, South by Southwest, or SXSW for those in the know. We open up with an interview for a film I originally saw at last [...]
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