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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