Mar 01 2010
Every week, we will be posting a prompt related to cinephilia, and some of our founding members will contribute a short response. Hopefully you, our dear readers, will feel compelled to respond in our comment section as well. This week’s prompt was:
Are there any actors/directors whose new films you will see regardless of any conditions?
Daniel
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Nov 22 2009
Dir. Jared Hess
Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar, 11/16/09, 7:35pm
I am not a huge fan of 2004’s Napoleon Dynamite, but I certainly prefer it to director Jared Hess’s latest, Gentlemen Broncos. Not that the characters in the newer film are any less awkward than the ones in Dynamite; Hess fans need not worry, for his unceasing quirkiness [...]
Nov 19 2009
Dir. Jared Hess
Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar, 11/16/09, 7:35pm
I enjoyed this film for my second viewing, perhaps even more than my first visit back in September. The ugly characters and scenery act to create a surreal experience, and the semi-attractive leads serve to anchor this lunacy into an identifiable crises. Everything Jemaine says is [...]
