Trailers are an under-appreciated art form insofar that many times they’re seen as vehicles for showing footage, explaining films away, or showing their hand about what moviegoers can expect. Foreign, domestic, independent, big budget: What better way to hone your skills as a thoughtful moviegoer than by deconstructing these little pieces of advertising? This week…
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One of the films I really dugg at the 2008 Telluride Film Festival was this Irish film titled Kisses by Lance Daly. In my review, I described the film as "Lost in Translation but with two irish 10-year-olds." The story follows two kids who run away from home and spend a "night of magic and…
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Writer/director Lance Daly described his film Kisses as a story about "how to escape if you can't escape". More specifically, it's about two kids who run away from home and spend a "night of magic and terror on the streets of inner-city Dublin." Sprinkled with realistic improvisational moments, Kisses is Lost in Translation but with…
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