Screw the big-budget blockbusters, you say? (Don't listen to them, Iron Man!) Well then, check out the latest indie films, and which ones you should Netflix/stand in line for, should they ever hit the wide-release screens. Screengrab reports from Tribeca with the latest and greatest:
Baghead, which “opens with a fairly vicious parody of a half-assed “mumblecore’-style independent film that looks as if the print had been delivered to the projection room in a cinnamon roll box with the icing still stuck to the insides.” (Mmm, cinnamon rolls…)
From Within, “a good, nasty little horror picture about a mysterious rash of apparent suicides in a small town setting.”
Bill Plympton’s latest animated offering, Idiots & Angels.
Playing, “Brazilian filmmaker Eduardo Coutinho's documentary that sounds like a dumb stunt but plays as a fascinating study in the nature of acting and storytelling.”
Theater of War, of which the “prime attraction is supposed to be the chance to see the Public Theater production coming together and to see a glimpse of the ‘process’ of its star, Meryl Streep.”My Winnipeg, in which director Guy Maddin, “eager to get at the roots of his unresolved childhood issues, decides to move back in with Mom and use some of the film budget to hire actors and a dog to ‘play’ his siblings and his ‘long, long, long-dead Chihuahua.’”
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