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Tiny Furniture plays well as a portrait–or confessional–of a young woman in desperate search of a home

For an indie coming of age picture by a young director, Tiny Furniture is surprisingly unhampered by oppressive quirk or clumsy symbolism. Tiny Furniture Directed by Lena Dunham Written by Lena Dunham 2010, USA Before reviewing this film, I should provide a disclaimer: I am a recent college graduate, I majored in art, and I’m …

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SXSW 2010 Wrap Up

Get Low Directed by Aaron Schneider After the screening for director Aaron Schneider’s debut film, most of the audience questions were some variation of “Who are you and how the hell did you swing Robert Duvall, Sissy Spacek, and Bill Murray?”  The answer, though, seems clear enough after seeing the picture. Get Low, the story of an infamous hermit …

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SXSW Review: ‘Cyrus’

Cyrus Directed by Jay and Mark Duplass The Austin based Duplass brothers made a name for themselves as vanguards of the mumblecore movement–a movement in film which emphasized uber-tiny budgets and naturalistic acting.  Their first two features, The Puffy Chair and Baghead, drew immense, if hesitant, praise from festivals like SXSW, and skyrocketed them to …

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SXSW Review: ‘Tiny Furniture’

Tiny Furniture Directed by Lena Dunham Before reviewing this film, I should provide a disclaimer: I am a recent college graduate, I majored in art, and I’m still, you know, figuring things out.  Disclaimer aside, I really, really enjoyed Lena Dunham’s new film about the difficulties of being a new college graduate with an unsteady handle …

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SXSW Review: ‘Marwencol’

Marwencol Directed by Jeff Malmberg One of the more downright inspirational films here is Marwencol, the story of accidental artist Mark Hogencamp. After being targeted and beaten outside of a club one night, Hogencamp came out of a coma with severe physical and mental damage.  His personal attempt at recuperation was to construct a 1/6th scale reproduction of a small …

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Kick Ass opens the SXSW 2010 line-up

The nine-day film SXSW film fest opens March 12 with the world premiere of Matthew Vaughn’s Kick-Ass, starring Aaron Johnson, Cholë Grace Moretz and Christopher Mintz-Plasse, who will all attend a Conversation panel at the SXSW Film Conference, along with the comic’s writers, Mark Millar and John S. Romita. 119 features will be screened, including …

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