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John Fortson, Christie Lynn Smith and Abby Ryder Fortson on “Rated”

April 12, 2020by Indie Outlook Leave a comment

“I think we’re going to make a quarantine movie here pretty soon,” quipped actor/filmmaker John Fortson at the beginning of our Zoom chat a few days ago. Like all families […]

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Rob Christopher on “Roy’s World: Barry Gifford’s Chicago”

October 1, 2019by Indie Outlook Leave a comment

“Come on, Roy, let’s get out of here,” said his mother. The taxi was still waiting with the motor running and they got in. The driver put it into gear […]

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Emily Lape and Alison Hixon on “Mercy’s Girl”

June 14, 2019by Indie Outlook Leave a comment

Few films in recent memory have made me melt quite as often as “Mercy’s Girl,” Emily Lape’s debut feature as a writer, director, producer and editor. It was shot four […]

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Something Rare and Sacred: Elvira Lind’s “Bobbi Jene”

December 1, 2017by Indie Outlook Leave a comment

What constitutes an out-of-body experience for moviegoers? For me, it’s when a film transports me so entirely into the life of the person onscreen that I feel as if I […]

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Joost van Ginkel on “170 Hz,” “The Paradise Suite”

October 6, 2016by Indie Outlook Leave a comment

The structurally audacious, vividly nuanced work of Dutch filmmaker and playwright Joost van Ginkel has been one of my most cherished discoveries this year. His first feature, 2011’s “170 Hz,” […]

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Gaite Jansen on “Supernova”

August 16, 2016by Indie Outlook Leave a comment

There are few films that provide as fitting an accompaniment to the waning days of summer as Tamar van den Dop’s “Supernova.” It was made and released in the Netherlands […]

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Sadie Rogers on “RPG”

June 9, 2016by Indie Outlook Leave a comment

I’ve often thought of Sadie Rogers as Stephen Cone’s good luck charm. She would always pop up in his early films, including “The Wise Kids,” which is one of the wisest […]

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Lindsay MacKay on “Wet Bum,” “Clear Blue”

May 23, 2016by Indie Outlook Leave a comment

As soon as the end credits began to roll on “Wet Bum,” a 2014 coming-of-age drama available on Netflix, I realized that I had just discovered one of my new […]

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Frank Mosley on “Her Wilderness”

April 24, 2015by Indie Outlook Leave a comment

Frank Mosley’s entrancing hour-long picture, “Her Wilderness,” is a cinematic meditation comprised of fragmented narrative threads. A young blonde woman (Lauren McCune) teeters on the edge of self-destruction. A pregnant […]

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Top Twenty Films of 2012: Part II

December 17, 2012by Indie Outlook Leave a comment

Contrary to what the Academy may have you believe, the year’s best films aren’t always released during November and December. In fact, one of the pictures in my top ten […]

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