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    Sand Trap: Laurent Cantet's "Heading South" By Sarah Silver

    by Indiewire on July 5, 2006

    Early on in "Heading South" ("Vers le sud"), we are introduced to Brenda (Karen Young), an American who has traveled alone to a picturesque beach. In her late forties, Brenda appears comfortable in her own skin, even though the setting, Port-au-Prince, Haiti, in the Seventies, predates the "40 is t...

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    Death Metal: Chris Paine's "Who Killed the Electric Car?"

    by Indiewire on June 26, 2006

    The movement of documentaries into the mainstream has brought forth its share of negatives to go along with the obvious positive of a more inclusive market. Coupled as the upsurge has been with the rise of reality TV and the accessibility of DV, I suppose it shouldn't come as a shock that the popula...

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    Chamber Drama: Michael Winterbottom and Mat Whitecross's "The Road to Guantanamo"

    by Indiewire on June 20, 2006

    Though it will likely play to a different crowd, make no mistake: "The Road to Guantanamo" is a not-too-distant cousin of Paul Greengrass's recent "United 93." Both represent the same tendency towards visceral, present-tense cinematic reportage that, through the integration of actuality footage and ...

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    2006 Half-Time: A Sidelong Glance

    by Indiewire on June 12, 2006

    It's mid-June, and much has been made of the dearth of worthwhile cinema thus far in 2006. Week after week has gone by in which we have heard fellow cinephiles (and those less inclined) cry of their disinterest in going to the movies, that there's just nothing worth seeing. The truth of the matter i...

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    Death Takes a Holiday: Robert Altman's "A Prairie Home Companion"

    by Indiewire on June 5, 2006

    How appropriate that Robert Altman should follow his honorary Oscar with a film like "A Prairie Home Companion." Career achievement awards usually invite a sanctification of a body of work and a sensibility, and "Prairie Home" is itself a kind of grand summary: there's something quintessentially Alt...

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    Front and Center: Deborah Scranton's "The War Tapes"

    by Indiewire on May 30, 2006

    Attempting to achieve a delicate balance between a respect for and a critical stance toward the subject, with a constant awareness of the moral and ethical dilemmas potentially undermining the epistemological foundations of their projects, war documentaries arrive onscreen carrying a host of artisti...

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    The Heartbreakers: "A Lion in the House"

    by Indiewire on May 23, 2006

    [indieWIRE's weekly reviews are usually written by critics from Reverse Shot. This week, they've handed their column over to Steve Ramos who takes a look at Reverse Shot's first theatrical release. ]

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    The Children's Hour: Michael Cuesta's "12 and Holding"

    by Indiewire on May 15, 2006

    Though his films tend to have an air of rawness and "brutal honesty," Michael Cuesta, judging by his first feature, "L.I.E." and his latest, "Twelve and Holding," seems more interested in creating angsty tween soap operas than surveying what it's really like to be a prepubescent. Cuesta treats the h...

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    Black Reign: James Marsh's "The King"

    by Indiewire on May 8, 2006

    A big gloppy heaping of Southwestern Grand Guignol, James Marsh's "The King" is nevertheless shot with all the patience and "artfulness" we've come to expect from serious indie dramas in the new millennium. Never intent to call out its own trash as trash, "The King" couches its head-slapping melodra...

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    Paint By Numbers: Terry Zwigoff's "Art School Confidential"

    by Indiewire on May 1, 2006

    There's a moment early in "Art School Confidential" that hurts with sonorous beauty. A gorgeous model (Sophia Myles) arrives in life-drawing class. A virginal freshman, Jerome (opaque Max Minghella), is suddenly all anticipation. She doffs her robe, turns, nude and perfect; Beethoven deluges the sou...

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