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    SXSW 2012 Review - Ya'Ke Smith's "Wolf" (What Spike Lee's "Red Hook Summer" Should Have Been)

    The cinematic punch in the gut I so desperately needed before leaving SXSW and Austin, TX tomorrow morning, Ya’ke Smith’s feature film directorial debut Wolf is an audacious, potent drama that will likely elicit extreme reactions from viewers when it’s eventually in general re...

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    SXSW '12 Doc Review: Teens Aimlessly Wonder Through The Night In "Tchoupitoulas"

    There seems to have been mostly documentaries featured this year at SXSW for the films pertaining to our site. One of them, Tchoupitoulas, helmed by brothers Bill and Turner Ross, began promisingly. The beginning sequences instantly hooks the viewer; the film introduces our teen protagonists in...

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    SXSW '12 Review: The Duplass Brothers' 'Do-Deca Pentathlon' Is A Minor Effort That Should Have Remained Buried

    It’s always important to keep in mind, while reading reviews, that interpreting art is a deeply personal experience. What might speak to someone on a visceral, emotional level will slide right over another’s head. Or anger them. Or bore them to tears. The third option was the experience of this writ...

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    SXSW '12 Review: HBO Series 'Girls' Solidifies Lena Dunham's Place As A Bold New Voice in American Comedy

    As far as young independent filmmakers go, writer/director Lena Dunham has been the subject of an excessive amount of conversation and handwringing, even by the admittedly loose standards of the ever-chatty Internet age. Her first feature, "Creative Nonfiction," was accepted to South by Southwest an...

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    Hulu Now Featuring SXSW Selection "Re:Generation Music Project"

    "Re:Generation Music Prjoect," one of eight films screening in the Special Events category at SXSW, will be exclusively available on Hulu starting today.

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    SXSW 2012: A Mid-Fest Round-Up of Indiewire's Coverage

    Indiewire is on the scene at this year's South by Southwest Film Conference and Festival bring you the lastest news, reviews and interviews. A lot went down this past weekend, so to make it easy for you, we've compiled it all here in this handy dandy weekend round-up.

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    Interview with the Director Kristy Guevara-Flanagan and Producer Kelcey Edwards of Wonder Woman - The Untold Story of American Superheroines

    I am one of those girls who grew up watching Wonder Woman and The Bionic Woman.  I loved those shows.  The feminist in me was alive way back then when Lynda Carter and Lindsey Wagner were kicking butt on TV in the 70s.  Of course I never realized how revolutionary those shows were at ...

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    SXSW 2012 Review - "Dreams Of A Life" (A Harrowing Reconstruction Of A Life From Collected Fragments)

    By now I’m sure we’re all familiar with the story, even if it’s just the broad details of it – young woman dies in her apartment and her body isn’t discovered for a good 3 years, as it lay there putrefying – which actually sounds like it could be a pitch for ...

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    SXSW 2012 Review - "The Raid: Redemption" (Indonesian Actioner Delivers Relentless Bloody Brutality)

    A film that's already developing a cult following, even though it's only commercial exhibits have been on the film festival circuit, starting with a 2011 Toronto Film Festival debut (it's now a Sony Pictures property, scheduled for a US and Indonesia release in March of this ye...

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