Month: March 2011

[SXSW Review] Weekend

Weekend opens with a simple premise: Russell (Tom Cullen) is alone. His life is static. The opening moments establish the lyrical qualities of the film. He pa...

[SXSW Review] Self Made

Self Made is the feature film debut of Gillian Wearing, an artist who emerged in the unofficial movement (yet branded by the international art world) YBA, or Yo...

[SXSW Review] A Year in Mooring

For ambiguous reasons a man doesn’t take to the sea, but exiles himself besides the sea. Josh Lucas plays an unnamed man, credited as “Young Mariner” in A Yea...

[SXSW Review] The Other F Word

Watching Generation X turn 40, facing the consequences of a drop-out lifestyle lies a contradiction. How to you keep your edge while putting food on the table...

[SXSW Review] Apart

Problematic is any new film technology as its use becomes more pervasive, limits and controls are found as its boundaries are pushed. The advent of the Red One,...

[NDNF Review] 678

Here in the United States the phrase "sexual harassment" generally makes one think of the kind of office-set scandals that plaster tabloid pages and are fea...