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So much was unnecessary and less would be too little for Todd Haynes' I'm Not There. It wanted to be important, but it’s elusive to that importance. Individual elements are stunning, so beautifully arranged that they stay in thoughts, yet as a whole, the ...
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Robert Sullivan, writing for The New York Times Magazine, profiles Todd Haynes, whose atypical Bob Dylan biopic I'm Not There opens this Wednesday, November 21. Read the article.
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Made in large part on a whim and with writer Jack Pendarvis’ support, Dan Brown's The Pipe watches as security guard (Nathan Zellner) and paramedic (Kent Osborne) inadvertently become friends while on by all accounts an unimportant and perhaps fruitless job. Despite the seemingly absurdist them...
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Over the summer SM Editor Noralil Ryan Fores caught up with writer Jack Pendarvis for Pine Magazine. Here are the results of their Manual's Tavern encounter.

As a stop motion indie animator, Scott Kravitz is one among only a few these days. Despite the fact that computer generated animation now blankets the market, Kravitz labors, painstakingly at times, in small spaces, with his Bolex, crafting one frame at a time. "I know how to animate on a computer, but I’m not very...
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Martin McDonagh's comdey In Bruges, starring Ralph Fiennes, Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson, as world premiere to open Sundance Film Festival 2008.

After careful consideration, SM has determined that our application pool for the Top 24 Film Students list is skewed and lacks the ability to represent the student film movement countrywide. Due to the fact, we feel it would be a disservice to our applicants to publish what may be perceived as a slanted list. Instead what we will do over the course of the following months is run profiles of each of our applicants, who generously shared their time and thoughts with us. SM thanks all its studen...
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