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"No, I was never a part of the social group portrayed in this film, but I knew it existed, and I hated it. I hated it for because I saw that it was self-destructive and damaging and I also hated it because admission into it meant social acceptance, something that I could never really have in high school. The world portrayed in Dance Party U.S.A. is not the typical one portrayed in high school movies, where the kids spend a lot of time worrying about pressing issues such as Prom King and Queen or winning the big football game. It's not an entry into the Heathers genre either, about the revenge of the outcasts. It's a movie about normal people, the people you forgot after you graduated. The characters this film are neither smart nor stupid. Like most high school studends, grades are not that important to them, but the social scene is. That scene is packed to the brim with sex, alcohol and pot, and for some, stronger substances. They are all still figuring themselves out, but they know ... "
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"Jim Emerson has collated an incredibly comprehensive account of the events of the 1983 Telluride Film Festival, where Andrei Tarkovsky made some obtuse statements about cinema and art, and Richard Widmark offered an eloquent counterargument, which can essentially be reduced to its most powerful two words: “He stinks.” An intern in the Paramount Vantage publicity office Martin Scorsese has a MySpace profile. If you have $95, you can buy a My Blueberry Nights tee shirt. Or, you can just go to indieWIRE’s Apple Store event tomorrow night and heckle Wong Kar Wai for indiscriminately distributing his branding rights for free. Dance Party USA and Quiet City scorer Keegan DeWitt is working on a new album. You can listen to a preview here. Originally posted on:
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"Jim Emerson has collated an incredibly comprehensive account of the events of the 1983 Telluride Film Festival, where Andrei Tarkovsky made some obtuse statements about cinema and art, and Richard Widmark offered an eloquent counterargument, which can essentially be reduced to its most powerful two words: “He stinks.” An intern in the Paramount Vantage publicity office Martin Scorsese has a MySpace profile. If you have $95, you can buy a My Blueberry Nights tee shirt. Or, you can just go to indieWIRE’s Apple Store event tomorrow night and heckle Wong Kar Wai for indiscriminately distributing his branding rights for free. Dance Party USA and Quiet City scorer Keegan DeWitt is working on a new album. You can listen to a preview here. Originally posted on:
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"?? Benten Films‘ second superbly-packaged DVD set (they previously released Joe Swamberg’s LOL) hits stores today. The set includes two films directed by Aaron Katz: Dance Party, USA, a kind of correction to Larry Clark’s KIDS, set in Portland and starring exquisitely natural local teens; and the Independent Spirit Award-nominated Quiet City, which I previously reviewed here. Both films are about a young boy and girl who venture out into urban spaces looking for an authentic experience. What sets them apart from traditional coming-of-age stories is, in part, the patience Katz shows in allowing his characters to take the time to settle into a tentative trust together. The films are both languid and totally economical; in terms of action, virtually nothing “happens,” and yet if there’s any fat to cut on either, I can’t find it. In Dance Party, we follow Gus, a teenage "
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"If you read a lot of film blogs, you might have noticed a virus going around called Dentler Takes the Stairs. It’s all the brainchild of Matt Dentler, who is like the P.T. Barnum of the SXSW Film Festival, and who, by being the first person to program movies like Kissing on the Mouth and Dance Party, USA, has played a huge role in legitimizing this wave of no-budget American indie filmmaking over the past few years. Dentler conducted interviews with the major players in Hannah Takes the Stairs (the Joe Swanberg drama starring Greta Gerwig and filmmakers Mark Duplass, Andrew Bujalski, Kent Osbourne, Ry Russo-Young and Todd Rohal), and asked a number of us film bloggers to each broadcast one of these interviews on our blogs. Matt asked me to carry the interview with Mark Duplass, and "
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"?? Benten Films‘ second superbly-packaged DVD set (they previously released Joe Swamberg’s LOL) hits stores today. The set includes two films directed by Aaron Katz: Dance Party, USA, a kind of correction to Larry Clark’s KIDS, set in Portland and starring exquisitely natural local teens; and the Independent Spirit Award-nominated Quiet City, which I previously reviewed here. Both films are about a young boy and girl who venture out into urban spaces looking for an authentic experience. What sets them apart from traditional coming-of-age stories is, in part, the patience Katz shows in allowing his characters to take the time to settle into a tentative trust together. The films are both languid and totally economical; in terms of action, virtually nothing “happens,” and yet if there’s any fat to cut on either, I can’t find it. In Dance Party, we follow Gus, a teenage "
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"This week on The Media Diet, we check in with Andrew Grant and Aaron Hillis. Grant is the brain behind Filmbrain; Hillis is a freelance critic and reporter whose work can be found at Premiere, The Village Voice and his personal blog, Cinephiliac. Together, they’ve just launched Benten Films, a boutique DVD distribution company aimed at drawing attention to “overlooked gems that deserve greater recognition.” Benten’s first release, Joe Swanberg’s LOL, will hit stores on August 28 (more on that closer to the date). They’re also planning to release two films by Aaron Katz, Dance Party USA and Quiet City, sometime after both screen at The New Talkies festival in New York, which begins next week. SPOUT: We start each installment of The Media Diet with the old desert island question: you’re packing your suitcase for life-long seclusion "
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