Category: Film
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SOJOURN Stands out in Stage 32 Screening at Austin Film Festival
Creativity and storytelling skills from around the country were on display in one of the many short film screenings at the Austin Film Festival Review by: Alexa Smith Austin Film Festival’s Stage 32 Short Film screening offered a variety of productions in varying genres. The short films originated from a contest that was hosted by…
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Austin Film Fest: A Patient Man Interview
The 26th Annual Austin Film Festival came to an end on Thursday, Oct. 31. As a hidden gem among the various film festivals from around the world, a variety of independent film screenings were showcased across the city. One of the screenings was “A Patient Man”, a film about a man who survives a car…
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Austin Film Festival: A Patient Man Review
Independent film reflects on the condition of the human mind in drama thriller. To read ACCENT’s interview with the filmmakers, click here. Review by: Nalani Nuylan How do we know the people we choose to befriend? By proxy, how well does the audience know the character(s) they are following? “A Patient Man” is the film…
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SXSW Film Review- Running With Beto
Written by Nathaniel Torres Running With Beto is a film that “started with baseball like so many other great things,” says director David Modigliani. Speaking to the audience at the SXSW 2019 premiere of his film, Modigliani shares with the crowd how he met now 2020 presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke while playing for the Texas…
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Film Review: “Greener Grass” SXSW 2019 Premiere
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Review & Photo by Taylor Kokas Haven written and starred in the short film of the same name that premiered at SXSW 2016, Jocelyn DeBoer and Dawn Luebbe are back in 2019 as writer/director duo and once again stars of their debut feature film, Greener Grass. An absurd satire about life in suburbia where people…
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Film Review: “Olympic Dreams” SXSW World Premiere
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Review & Photo by Taylor Kokas Olympic Dreams is a sports romantic comedy directed by Jeremy Teicher that was shot during the 2018 Winter Olympics in PyeongChang, South Korea. The film centers around Penelope (played by Teicher’s wife; Alexi Pappas) a 22 year old cross country skier who is trying to make the most out…
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Film Review: “Villains” SXSW World Premiere
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Review & Photos by Taylor Kokas Dan Berk and Robert Olsen are back again as director duo for their third feature film, Villain’s. A dark comedy crime thriller about Mickey and Jules (Bill Skarsgard, IT)(Maika Monroe, It Follows), two lovers on their way to Florida. After making a successful gas station robbery their car happens…
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Film Review: “The Highwaymen”
Written by – Nathaniel Torres Stories of outlaws, gunslingers, and renegades have a tendency to captivate a wild side of our souls. By 1934 Bonnie and Clyde succeeded in procuring public favor in such a way. They were wanted for multiple murders and countless robberies. They didn’t evade police, they blew through them; escalating shootouts…
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Film Review: Mid90s
Written by Martay Whitfield Jonah Hill wears many hats in the creation of Mid90s. Mid90s focuses on 13-year-old Stevie’s (Sunny Suljic) teenagedom in the 1990s. Stevie lives in a low-income neighborhood of Los Angeles with children of different ethnicities, experiencing troubles of their own. Stevie escapes his troubled home by making new at the local…
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Film Review: The Happy Prince
Written by Kevin Lopez The Happy Prince stars, written and directed by Rupert Everett and this makes it his directorial debut in this film. For his directorial debut, Everett chose a biographical film based on the last days of Oscar Wilde (Rupert Everett). Everett places us inside Wilde’s mind as he creates scenes that connect…