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LOL From acclaimed auteur Joe Swanberg (Hannah Takes the Stairs), LOL is a raw, witty, and painfully intimate look at modern sexuality and the technology that either helps us click or turns us off. Filmed with documentary-like realism and featuring a brilliantly eclectic soundtrack, LOL's defiantly un-Hollywood approach pulls no punches in its up-to-the-second relevance and honesty. |
Joe Swanberg | 2006 |
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Quiet City + Dance Party, USA Praised for his contemplative lyricism and character-driven authenticity, writer-director Aaron Katz now stands at the vanguard of American cinema's new wave of forward-thinking independents. This 2-DVD set includes Katz's deceptively simple, achingly beautiful Brooklyn-set drama Quiet City (nominated for a 2008 Spirit Award), plus his impressionistic debut, Dance Party, USA—hailed as "one of the best films of the year" (The New York Sun). |
Aaron Katz | 2007 |
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The Guatemalan Handshake One of Filmmaker Magazine's 25 New Faces of Independent Film, writer-director Todd Rohal charts strange new cinematic waters with his madly innovative feature debut, The Guatemalan Handshake. Winner of Special Jury Prizes at Slamdance and Torino, Rohal's vivacious feast for the senses "bristles with his anarchic visual language, offbeat humor, ephemeral sense of narrative, circuitous character sketches, and freewheeling sense of mirth" (Baltimore City Paper). |
Todd Rohal | 2007 |