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Alright so things are falling into place for this trip to Laos + Thailand in March. So if anyone has any tips/suggestions drop me a line.

THis is a research trip for this feature we're working on which is what we're calling an "existential thriller" - which basically means we want it to be fucking scary but also have brainy ideas about life as well....
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caught a special Vice magazine screening of the incredibly awesome teenage wasteland movie OVER THE EDGE last night at the Walter Reade for Film Comment Selects. Teenage punks and Cheap Trick make a fucking awesome combo.

the 35mm print looked pretty decent and there was a cast reunion (sans mr. Matt Dillon) but it was still prety awesome. One of the trivia tidbits that came...
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ok so while im not the biggest LAND OF TALK fan i am an admirer. i love elizabeth powell's raspy little voice. Time Out had it pretty right when they called it: "a voice that flits between come-hither and go-fuck-yourself.

anyway, this video for "It's Okay" directed by the We Were Monkeys dudes is just insanely good. the visuals are just mindblowing. it's one of...
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yo peeps im going back up to Toronto again this weekend to work on a feature film idea with a music video director up there... the movie is this thriller about a Western backpacker in Thailand who has to flee from the police after he kills a rapist who is attacking a local woman... the rapist happens to be the son of a US diplomat....
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in the southern Haitian town of Jacmel, a group of young Haitian filmmakers saw their film school crumble in the earthquake earlier this week but they have found an inspiring way to move on. they are picking up their cameras and documenting the stories of their friends, family and countrymen that surround them. it's an empowering way for these budding filmmakers to speak out and...
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So I've set this goal of seeing the 56 obscure & foreign films I havent seen on Film Comment's top 150 of the 2000s and I've already seen some doozies. I'm about a dozen in and here some of my faves thus far:

SILENT LIGHT (Carlos Reygadas - 2007)
A gorgeous transcendent film about a German Mennonite farmer struggling to stay faithful to his wife,...
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just got back from seeing michael haneke's THE WHITE RIBBON with a friend. the movie is about this puritanical German village at the beginning of the 20th Century where mysterious and violent "accidents" begin to harm members of the town. slowly, over the course of the film, you begin to see what is happening. it's a brilliant film and one of the best movies ive...
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so you should check out the spec trailer me and my writing partner did for the feature film we're currently researching: CRY, HAVOC - the concept was a finalist for the Toronto Film Fest's Pitch This competition... it's a movie about growin up on the streets of Rexdale... a poverty-stricken, gang-ridden part of Toronto... check it out here and lemme know what u think...

UPDATE:...
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happy festivus motherfuckers.