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Tribeca 2012: ‘Jack and Diane’ mistakes distinctiveness for greatness

Jack and Diane Written by Bradley Rust Gray Directed by Bradley Rust Gray USA, 2012 Controversy in filmmaking is so sought out, especially in smaller independent films depended on plot devices, that it’s almost becoming an overplayed, stale commodity. Racism, sexism, pretty much any ism, has been retold and revitalized over and over again begging …

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London Film Festival: The Unbearable Inarticulateness of Being

The Limits of Control Directed by Jim Jarmusch The Exploding Girl Directed by Bradley Rust In the early 1990s, slacker cinema was all the rage in American independent cinema, with wacky, mumbling characters, slow pacing and the mundanity of everyday life replacing traditional plots, characterisations and drama. Which brings us to these two Amerindie offerings. …

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