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Indie Flashback: Gregg Araki on “Kaboom”

November 27, 2020by Indie Outlook Leave a comment

The following interview was originally published at HollywoodChicago.com on February 17th, 2011. Perhaps no one but Gregg Araki could make a hallucinogenic, doom-laden mystery as playful and curiously optimistic as […]

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Indie Flashback: Benh Zeitlin, Dwight Henry and Quvenzhané Wallis on “Beasts of the Southern Wild”

February 17, 2020by Indie Outlook Leave a comment

The following interviews with filmmaker Benh Zeitlin and actors Quvenzhané Wallis and Dwight Henry were originally published at HollywoodChicago.com in July 2012. Their film, “Beasts of the Southern Wild,” went […]

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CIFF 2019: “Knives Out,” “Portrait of a Lady on Fire” and Five More Contenders

October 28, 2019by Indie Outlook Leave a comment

Few modern filmmakers understand the essence of Frank Oz’s artistry as innately as Rian Johnson. The most euphoric sequence in Johnson’s sublime 2017 blockbuster, “Star Wars: The Last Jedi,” occurs […]

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Why “Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood” is My Favorite Tarantino Film Since “Kill Bill”

July 25, 2019by Indie Outlook Leave a comment

I’ll never forget the moment I first fell in love with the cinema of Quentin Tarantino. Having grown up Catholic pre-Gibson’s “Passion,” I was not at all accustomed to graphic […]

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Out of Time: The Brilliant Soundtrack of Hal Ashby’s “Coming Home”

May 7, 2019by Indie Outlook 2 Comments

On May 7th of last year, I was fortunate enough to catch Amy Scott’s splendid documentary, “Hal,” at the Chicago Critics Film Festival. I had already been a fan of […]

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CIFF 2018: Alfonso Cuarón’s “Roma” and Six More Highlights

October 21, 2018by Indie Outlook Leave a comment

Today marks the end of the 54th Chicago International Film Festival, and I feel as if it’s only begun. My crazier-than-usual schedule combined with a lack of pre-festival press screenings […]

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Masterful 1990 German Film “The Nasty Girl” is Frighteningly Timely

August 9, 2018by Indie Outlook Leave a comment

“Such a nasty woman…”—Donald Trump, interrupting Hillary Clinton during their final presidential debate I must’ve been four or five when I viewed a trailer on a rented VHS tape that […]

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Maria Dragus on “Graduation” and “The White Ribbon”

May 15, 2017by Indie Outlook Leave a comment

When Cristian Mungiu wrote the script for his Cannes prize-winner, “Graduation,” he had only one person in mind for the film. It was Maria Dragus, an actress he had first […]

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Peyton Kennedy on “American Fable,” “XX” and “Odd Squad”

February 24, 2017by Indie Outlook Leave a comment

Millie Bobby Brown in “Stranger Things.” Angourie Rice in “The Nice Guys.” Ella Ballentine in “The Monster.” Dafne Keen in “Logan.” All excellent examples of performances by young women who […]

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Of Films and Flatulence: “The BFG” and “Swiss Army Man”

July 1, 2016by Indie Outlook Leave a comment

It’s easy for one to regard fart jokes as the lowest form of humor known to man. I have little doubt that the first laugh ever elicited in human history […]

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