Archive for the ‘Indie’ Category
Your Sister’s Sister, funny, awkward, honest, surprising
Your Sister’s Sister, starring Emily Blunt, Rosemarie DeWitt and Mark Duplass opens in the screening room today. Directed by Lynn Shelton (Humpday), this film was shot in a lightning fast 12 days, and Shelton allowed the actors to improvise most of the film’s dialogue. This sort of film-making can go horribly awry, …
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COMPLIANCE, not easy on the brain, but well worth watching.
Compliance has stirred up a fair amount of controversy since it debuted at Sundance, and this week, we bring Compliance to you, the faithful and stalwart patrons of CinemaSalem. And stalwart you will need to be. Based on a real life case, the details of which can be reviewed here, the film depicts an …
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Hara-Kiri delivers drama, Queen of Versailles horror
I’ll be talking about two movies this week–Takashi Miike’s new drama Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai (opening today in the screening room) and Lauren Greenfield’s latest documentary, The Queen of Versailles (opening on one of the big screens today).
Takashi Miike, best known for some of his more gruesome work–Ichi the Killer, Audition…
