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             <title>Meet Me in St. Tropez: Olivier Ducastel &amp;amp; Jacques Martineau's "C&amp;ocirc;te d'Azur"</title>
             <description><![CDATA[Flirting with the conventions of the door-slamming theatrical sex farce and the mistaken- (sexual) identity romp, Ducastel and Martineau again wrestle with sexual identity, yet without burrowing so deep that any of their characters get irrevocably hurt. The genial optimism of Ducastel-Martineau often takes consequence entirely out of the equation, and, in the case of &quot;C&ocirc;te d'Azur,&quot; for the first time they run the risk of short-changing some of their characters, transforming their sexual crises into sitcom fodder. Yet if you ultimately choose to play along, you'll feel greatly rewarded by the film's back-bendingly joyous denouement. Michael Koresky reviews &quot;C&ocirc;te d'Azur&quot; with responses from Kristi Mitsuda and Eric Hynes. (09/07/05)]]></description>
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             <title>Production Report: "Angst," "The Big Bad Swim," "Find Love," "Full Grown Men," "Warriors"</title>
             <description><![CDATA[In the September edition of indieWIRE's Production Report, Jason Guerrasio looks at a group of new movies, including Robin Christian's &quot;Angst,&quot; Ishai Setton's &quot;The Big Bad Swim,&quot; Erica Dunton's &quot;Find Love,&quot; David Monro's &quot;Full Grown Men,&quot; and Marc Singer's &quot;Warriors.&quot; Get a premiere look at some independent films in various stages of production. (09/07/05)]]></description>
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             <title>What Reverse Shot Learned During Summer Vacation: 13 Lessons</title>
             <description><![CDATA[We'd prefer not to have to once again go over the corrosive specifics of the summer's oft puzzled-over &quot;summer slump.&quot; But with its projected &quot;whopping&quot; 9% drop from 2004's box-office totals and 11.5% decline in attendance, what are we supposed to do in response? Suddenly decry the paucity of strong Hollywood product? Strange to suddenly be chastising Hollywood for just doing what it thinks it does best, even if people are preferring more and more to watch movies at home instead. And who are we joking: In the comfort of their own living room, fridge in crawling distance, people are mostly going to watch those very same shitty movies... So, while we were on summer &quot;vacation&quot; we feel that the movies' pains and pleasures were mostly business as usual. However, we did learn 13 valuable lessons. (08/31/05)]]></description>
             <link>http://www.indiewire.com/movies/movies_050831rev.html</link>
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             <title>Making "Volver," Pedro Almod&amp;oacute;var's Online Diary</title>
             <description><![CDATA[A man comes up to me while I'm having breakfast in a bar. He tells me he's seen &quot;Bad Education&quot; three times. I thank him, as I normally do. The first time I fell asleep, the stranger explains. Did it bore you so much? Pedro Almod&oacute;var gets answers and more in this diary entry from the acclaimed Spanish filmmaker. (08/29/05)]]></description>
             <link>http://www.indiewire.com/movies/movies_050829almo.html</link>
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             <title>Brothers' Peepers: Ga&amp;euml;l Morel's "Three Dancing Slaves"</title>
             <description><![CDATA[Ostensibly a glimpse at the disrupted lives of three young brothers under the thumb of their tyrannical father after the death of their mother, &quot;Three Dancing Slaves&quot; is more of a treatise on postadolescent male angst and the stranglehold of dominant masculine roles. Morel's world, here a backwoods rural community in the Rh&ocirc;ne-Alpes, is one comprised almost completely of men and in which there are few emotional outlets. Michael Koresky reviews the film with responses by Jeff Reichert and Nick Pinkerton. (08/23/05)]]></description>
             <link>http://www.indiewire.com/movies/movies_050823three.html</link>
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             <title>Torture Chamber Drama: Park Chan-wook's "Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance"</title>
             <description><![CDATA[The first installment of Park Chan-wook's &quot;Revenge Trilogy,&quot; &quot;Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance,&quot; opens this week following, in reverse order, the surprise U.S. art-house success of his second entry in the series, &quot;Oldboy.&quot; If &quot;Oldboy,&quot; a hyper-stylized ode to the sadomasochistic pleasures of bloody retribution and convoluted storytelling was something of a wake-up call to audiences entranced by the soul-stealing somnambulism of Hollywood's latest, &quot;Mr. Vengeance&quot; proves there was something worth staying awake for. Brad Westcott reviews the film with responses from Karen Wilson and Nick Pinkerton. (08/16/05)]]></description>
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             <title>Film Forum to Screen U.S. and International Debuts in Fall/Winter Line up</title>
             <description><![CDATA[New York's Film Forum recently announced their fall and winter premiere screenings, which include a wide-ranging assortment of U.S. and international films, with a strong focus on documentaries. Screenings will include Deborah Koons Garcia's &quot;The Future of Food,&quot; Jacques Richard's &quot;Henri Langlois: Phantom of the Cinematheque&quot; and Jeppe Ronde's &quot;The Swenkas,&quot; among others. (08/15/05)]]></description>
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             <title>To Die From: Marcos Siega's "Pretty Persuasion"</title>
             <description><![CDATA[For all the critics lamenting the turn to all-style/no-substance MTV aesthetics, former music video veteran Marcos Siega's &quot;Pretty Persuasion&quot; could have done well with a stylistic shot in the arm. Producing deft, relevant social satire is tricky enough without leaden direction weighing it down, especially when that satire is aimed at the frothy and fundamentally content-free microcosm of Los Angeles teen privilege. Films such as &quot;Clueless&quot; and &quot;Election&quot; (to which &quot;Pretty Persuasion&quot; owes its well-intentioned roots, even if it fails to flower) succeed on repeat viewings for precisely the same reasons &quot;Pretty Persuasion&quot; fails on its first and serves to make its white-trash cinematic cousin &quot;Wild Things&quot; seem classy by comparison. Suzanne Scott reviews the film with responses by Kristi Mitsuda and Michael Joshua Rowin. (08/09/05)]]></description>
             <link>http://www.indiewire.com/movies/movies_050809pretty.html</link>
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             <title>Production Report: "30 Century Man: The Music of Scott Walker," "All Fall Down," "August," "Living Gauguin," "Randy and the Mob"</title>
             <description><![CDATA[In the July edition of indieWIRE's Production Report, Jason Guerrasio looks at a group of new movies, including Stephen Kijak's &quot;30 Century Man: The Music of Scott Walker,&quot; Matt Tauber's &quot;All Fall Down,&quot; Pia Marais' &quot;August,&quot; John Galceran's &quot;Living Gauguin,&quot; and Ray McKinnon's &quot;Randy and the Mob.&quot; (08/03/05)]]></description>
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             <title>Deep Breath: Phil Morrison's "Junebug"</title>
             <description><![CDATA[These moments are recreated for me onscreen Phil Morrison's lovely American treasure, &quot;Junebug,&quot; a North Carolina based portrait of human contradictions and the conundrums of the familial bond which locates the ineffable, spiritual balm of the home womb. The opening of &quot;Junebug&quot; is more than slightly disorienting, moving headlong and devil-may-care from a romantic, joie de vivre credit sequence. Michael Koresky reviews Phil Morrison's &quot;Junebug,&quot; with responses by Danielle McCarthy and Jeff Reichert. (08/02/05)]]></description>
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