The 2014 Sundance Film Festival, held from Thursday, January 16th, to Sunday, January 26th, in Park City, Utah, offers an embarrassment of riches for any self-respecting cinephile. Merely attempting to […]
As a longtime scholar and champion of indie filmmaking, it is a great thrill and honor to announce that I, Matt Fagerholm, will be teaching a six-week class entitled “Beyond […]
As yet another silly awards season kicks into hyper-drive, it’s important to remember that the vast majority of films vying for accolades will be blissfully forgotten soon after February 24th. […]
Every awards season brings a glut of expensive campaigns. Studios believe that if they shout loud enough, they’ll drown out all of the equally worthy (and even superior) work that […]
With the previous night’s screening of “The Dark Knight Rises” still rolling around in my head, I dove headfirst into entirely different territory–the cinema of Mark and Jay Duplass–with the […]
I’ll always cherish Joe Swanberg’s web series “Young American Bodies” for introducing me to some of independent cinema’s most fascinating figures: Greta Gerwig, Lynn Shelton, Nathan Adloff, to name a […]
I have always been fond of the “Duplass Brothers,” Mark and Jay Duplass. Their indie comedies fuse scruffy charm with raw insight so spot-on that it’s occasionally painful. Case in […]
