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Olmo Omerzu on “Winter Flies”

September 5, 2018by Indie Outlook Leave a comment

Olmo Omerzu has quickly emerged as one of my favorite filmmakers yet to be discovered by the majority of Americans. By age 33, the Slavic director has helmed three features […]

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Top 100 Favorite Films: 2017 Edition

January 4, 2017by Indie Outlook Leave a comment

A few years ago, I was asked by a friend to rank my Top Five Favorite Films. It was so daunting to limit my list to only five titles that […]

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CIFF 2016 Preview: “La La Land,” “Moonlight” and More

October 11, 2016by Indie Outlook Leave a comment

Movie lovers in the Windy City have a massive treat in store for them when the Chicago International Film Festival kicks off this week. Boasting the strongest line-up in recent […]

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Joanna Coates and Daniel Metz on “Amorous”

February 11, 2016by Indie Outlook Leave a comment

An unerring warmth radiates through every frame of “Amorous,” the haunting feature debut of director Joanna Coates. Winner of The Michael Powell Award for Best British Feature Film at the […]

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All Things Shining in Terrence Malick’s “The Tree of Life”

May 1, 2015by Indie Outlook Leave a comment

Four years ago this month, Terrence Malick’s “The Tree of Life” premiered at the Cannes Film Festival. I published the following piece at HollywoodChicago.com on June 3, 2011. “Where is […]

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Love Is Honesty: The Catharsis of “Almost There”

February 1, 2015by Indie Outlook Leave a comment

There’s a brief close-up that occurs early on in Dan Rybicky and Aaron Wickenden’s documentary, “Almost There,” of hands covered in glitter, those infuriating particles so often caked onto supposedly […]

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Persona Non Grata: The Persona of 3 Women on Mulholland Drive

September 4, 2014by Indie Outlook 4 Comments

I wrote the following essay back in college and later presented it at the University of Notre Dame’s Midwest Undergraduate Film Conference. It was written for Dan Rybicky’s class on […]

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Damon Maulucci and Keir Politz on “Detonator”

September 21, 2013by Indie Outlook Leave a comment

Nothing shatters the dreams of youth quite like the inescapable march of adulthood. As soon as there are mouths to feed apart from one’s own, the days of uncertainty and […]

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Top Ten Female Performances in a Woody Allen Film

July 29, 2013by Indie Outlook 3 Comments

If there is anything that has remained consistent in the films of Woody Allen, it has been the juicy complexity of his female characters, from Tina Vitale and Linda Ash […]

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Patrick Wang on “In the Family”

June 24, 2013by Indie Outlook Leave a comment

Watching Patrick Wang’s 169-minute masterwork, “In the Family,” with a packed house at this year’s Ebertfest was one of the great moviegoing experiences of my life. Rarely have I felt […]

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