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Tuesday, May 5

Thighbeca Film Festival '009

the Thighbeca Film Festival scaled back this year, and so did wees, only taking in 4 movies. it woulda been 5, but we skipped one so we could watch game 1 of Caps/Pens, which based on how un-great the films we saw were, was totally the right call

Breast In Fest

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Jeepers Worth A Releasers


Soundtrack For A Revolution
[website | trailer]

There are tons of documentaries about the Holocaust, but not that many about the Civil Rights movement. They say Jews control the media, so lettuce juss leave it at that. It's been a long arsed time since we were happily forced to watch the mammoth 14-part series Eyes On The Prize in high school, so it was with great pleasure to take a fresh look at the Civil Right movement with Soundtrack For A Revolution. The doc aims to spotlight the spiritual and peaceful fight songs of the movement, with modern day musicians playin the tunes in a studio (The Roots, John Legend, Wyclef, Joss Stone, etc), but it's basically an excuse to retell the stories of the major marches, acts of civil disobedience, and rise and fall of MLK Jr. There's nothing wrong with that, as we hope the big name artists will help to open new ears and eyes to a part of American history that needs to be retold over and over

release date: unknown, but will play at this year's Cannes FF


Sum Merit But
No Stinkin Festival Badges


Stay Cool
[trailer not available]

We loves ourselves some Polish brothers. Aint talking about siblings from the European country, but the twins Mark (the actor/writer) and Michael (the director), whose unique brand of quirkiness doesn't always hit a home run with us, but we still like to watch them play. Their latest venture has 'Breastest Movie mt EVERest' written all over it, solely based on the cast and crew. Mark plays Henry, a successful writer who has returned home to deliver his high school's graduation commencement speech. His parents are still nutty and treat him like a kid (played with such welcome back bestness by Dee Wallace, aka the mother from E.T., and Michael Gross, aka the father from Family Ties), his friends who still live in the area are beyond fruity (Sean Astin and Lost's Sawyer), and not much has changed in the hallowed hallways of his school (Chevy Chase is still the hapless principal, Frances Conroy is still the meanie teacher, and girls are still hot... Hilary Duff fills this role quite well). Henry has forever been pining for his ye old crush (Winona Ryder, who is everyone's real life ye old crush, right?), and wouldn't you know it, she's also back in town! Henry makes up for lost time and finally makes his move on her. How the rest of it plays out is passable, but it did feel a bit too restrained. We were dying to love this movie, but the bros Polish never gave us the chance to fully embrace it. It had a Napoleon Dynamite vibe goings, yet w/o any of its TNT for awesomeness. An effin and geein shame

release date: unknown, although this would totally be an OK flick to watch on IFC if you stumbled upon it

Doesn't Even Belong
In A Poop Festical



The Exploding Girl
[website]

We also loves ourselves sum Zoe Kazan, and we were mad eager beaver cleaver to see the film in which she won the festival's Best Actress prize for. And after seeing sleeping thru this borefest and 5/9ths (with ZERO EXPLOSIONS!!!), which showcases not much of her acting, juss sum frowns and an occasional smile, we have to ask, was she the only actress nominated? This movie is so snoozetastic that it makes Wendy & Lucy look as fast & furious as a Jan de Bont flick! whatevs dot snore, cause we still loves you like crazyzz Zoe!!

release date: hopefully never, unless used to treat insomnia



Salt of This Sea
[trailer]

Films being told from the Palestinian point of view are becoming more of a common thing these days and so far the results have been well worth watching (Lemon Tree and Paradise Now). Salt of This Sea is not one of them films worth watching. It's super long, when it only needed to be 8 minutes long, and its main character, a Brooklynite girl with displaced Palestinian roots returning to the homeland, is so unsympathetic and purty pathetic that it's hard to even want to view her point. Even if you do care for her, you won't care for the film after the bank robbery scene, which is so unnecessary and redonkeypunched

release date: hopefully never as well, unless used as a Guantanamo Bay torture device


we saw a screening of Easy Virtue, starring Justin Timberlake's girlfriend, and will review it when it comes out in a few weeks

hear are recaps from Thighbeca years past:
2008, 2007, 2006 and 2005, sorta

until next year's fest, the balcony is clothed



# Thighbeca Film Festival '009