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'Bama Girl
There's a moment in 'Bama Girl where director Rachel Goslins' thesis comes crashing down around her. A study of the racial politics of Homecoming elections at the University of Alabama, the doc follows spritely queen hopeful Jessica Joyce Thomas as she campaigns her way to claim the covete...
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Coyote
In approaching the hot button issue of border control, screenwriters Brian Petersen and Brett Spackman didn't want to lose the personal under waves of politics. By playing with multiple genres and styles with a film fan enthusiasm, Petersen, in the director's chair, and Spackman, in the editor's, manage with e...
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The Cake Eaters
With her feature debut The Cake Eaters, Mary Stuart Masterson steps behind the camera in a move that is neither particularly good nor bad. Screenwriter and actor Jayce Bartok crafts the story of two families contending with love and loss in small town America, and while it's an e...
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AFF 2008 Preview FightFuckPray
So often a film's success depends not only on talent and budget but on a culturally relevant and resonant release timing. Lacking little in either on and off screen performance and working creatively with limited resources, Christina Kline, Darren Mann and Dan Bush's FightFuckPray arrives in what feels a decade too late.
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AFF 2008 PreviewLiberty Kid
Ilya Chaiken's Liberty Kid feels readymade, its characters, beats and visual markers so widely familiar when packaged that indeed, until it's pointed out, no art can be seen in them. Well in over her head Chaiken misses the grace of a Marcel Duchamp, failing to imprint her authorial mark on a work that's bland in both its small moments of triumph and large ones of tragedy.
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AFF 2008 PreviewThe Axe in the Attic
In many ways, a comparison can be drawn between Elizabeth Barret's Stranger with a Camera and Ed Pincus and Lucia Small's post-Katrina doc The Axe in the Attic, namely that the filmmakers are forced in both cases to question the ethics and reliability of their pr...
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