Ana (Manuela Vallès), a young hippy talented painter living in Ibiza, is discovered by Justine (Charlotte Rampling), an Arts Patron who invites her to join an independent Arts school. Ana's first...
"Chaotic Ana" by Julio Medem (2007)
Showing posts with label Independent Movies. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Independent Movies. Show all posts
6/15/2013
6/02/2013
"Garage" by Lenny Abrahamson (2007)
Garage is a movie about the life of Josie, a simple-minded good-hearted somewhat-autistic gas-station caretaker who craves affection and social interaction in an isolated Irish rural town. The script ...
4/15/2013
"Primer" by Shane Carruth (2004)
A low-budget science-fiction original movie that tells the story of a group of friends who are carrying out several engineering Physics experiments in a garage and discover, by accident, time travel....
4/07/2013
"Dopamine" by Marc Decena (2003)
Dopamine is an original independent post-modern love story that reflects on traditional/modern views on love in our contemporary world, and on the difficulties of human connection in a world that...
4/05/2013
"Underground" by Emir Kusturica (1995)
Underground is a Serbian-Franco-German allegorical tragicomedy about the disintegration of the former Yugoslavia.
The movie is structured in three parts: War, Cold War, and War. The first is devoted...
3/31/2013
"Crash" by Paul Haggis (2004)
A single event in somebody's life can have repercussions in many others. That is the point of departure of this post-modern holistic view of human interrelations in a modern multicultural multiracial...
3/27/2013
"Mr. Nobody" by Jaco Van Darmael (2009)
** Warning - This review may contain spoilers. I recommend watching the movie and then coming here, especially if the ending intrigues you, and it will **
Mr Nobody is the story of Nemo, whose...
12/02/2012
"Moon" by Duncan Jones (2009)
Moon is an indie retro-Sci-Fi film that narrates the last days of San Bell on a station on the moon at the end of his 3-year contract.
The storyline is
excellent, but the script and the mood of the...
11/24/2012
"Sita Sings the Blues" by Nina Paley (2008)
The movie can be watched online at Nina Paley's website.
Sita Sings the Blues is an animated film based on one of the episodes in the Ramayana, but adapted to modern sensibilities, that has Sita -Rama's...
11/04/2012
"Antichrist" by Lars Von Trier (2009)
Antichrist tells the story of a couple's grief after the death of their child, their progressive alienation from reality, and their descend to a personal hell, especially after they retreat to their...
10/20/2012
"The Corpse Bride" by Tim Burton & Mike Johnson (2005)
A stop-motion comic-horror-romance musical directed by Tim Burton, which has all the elements and icons of the Burton's quirky universe.The movie tells the story of Victor (Johnny Depp), who is in...
9/21/2012
"Cold Souls" by Sophie Barthes (2009)
Cold Souls is a comedy of the absurd with some surrealist and existentialist touches, and a philosophical query on the nature of the soul.
The film departs from a quote from Descartes that...
8/26/2012
"Little Miss Sunshine" by Jonathan Dayton & Valerie Faris (2006)
Little Miss Sunshine is a road movie about a dysfunctional family trying to take their seven-year-old Olive to an interstate beauty pageant from Alburquerque NM to Redondo Beach CA in their yellow...
6/14/2012
"Code 46" by Michael Winterbottom (2003)
Code 46 is Michael Winterbottom's allegory about a our near future, a world where human relationships and society are damned by the power of eugenics and the extensive use of in-vitro genetically-designed...
6/10/2012
"Roman Polanski, Wanted and Desired" by Marina Zenovich (2008)
Roman Polanski Wanted and Desired is a terrific documentary with important flaws, that does not give an answer to the core question of the case - Did Polanski rape minor Samantha Gilmer or was the...
"Rejected" by Don Hertzfeldt (2000)
Watch it on YouTube
An Oscar nominated, cult short by Don Hertzfeldt that showcases several mini-shorts related to product promotion and children teaching segments. They are linked by a fictional...
6/05/2012
"V. O. S." by Cesc Gay (2009)
V. O. S. is a sui-generis romantic comedy directed by Spanish film maker Cesc Gay and based on the eponymous stage play. The movie is bilingual, spoken both in Spanish and Catalan, with a few sentences...
5/21/2012
"Buried" by Rodrigo Cortés (2010)
Paul Conroy is a married truck driver working as a contractor in Iraq. After his convoy is attacked by insurgents, he wakes up inside a coffin, buried alive, with a Zippo, a cell phone, and a little...
5/18/2012
The Tracey Fragments by Bruce McDonald (2007)
Tracey Berkowitz is a 15y.o. girl on a night bus, covered by a curtain shower, talking directly to you - nonsense. Her memory is fragmented, chaotic, fancy, and on a loop. She has left home, is looking...
