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June 28, 2013 Andy Cush

The Road From Karakol follows one man on a two-wheeled journey across Kyryzstan, the mountainous former Soviet Republic west of China. And as if cycling all over the 77,000 square mile nation wasn’t challenge enough, Kyle Dempster also climbed as many peaks as he could while on his journey. See The Road from Karakol tonight at the 2013 […]

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June 27, 2013 Marina Galperina

“Obviously that’s not a lot of fun, getting hit by a bus, so I wanted to do something positive,” Bicycle Film Festival director Brendt Barbur tells ANIMAL. Biking in New York can be perilous, but there’s a reason why we do it and since 2001, Barbur celebrated the biking spirit in a series of screenings, […]

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June 25, 2013 Andy Cush

San Francisco filmmaker Brian Emerick created this sweet little film, which relies on a simple premise to communicate its love for New York City: every shot is just one second long, and everything was recorded over a single 12 day visit to NYC. The resulting collage is a little sentimental, and there are one two […]

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June 20, 2013 Julia Dawidowicz

Lone cowboy with wanderlust embarks on soul-searching adventure, meets girl who wants to settle down, gets torn between love and the open road… It’s a story we’ve heard before, but somehow, Janapar manages to come off as fresh and original. Maybe it’s the gorgeous shots of the exotic, off-the-beaten-path landscapes that protagonist Tom Allen bikes […]

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June 12, 2013 Andy Cush

Imagine, for a moment, that the next time you tell a story at a party, you’re unbound by silly things like “realism” and “the truth.” Sure, many of us are liberal with embellishments when spinning a yarn, but what if could make it up wholecloth? What kind of story would you tell? That’s the question […]

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June 11, 2013 Andy Cush

Depending on your neighborhood, you may have come across people who pick up your recyclable garbage as soon as you put it on the curb, and if you’re smart, you probably realized they’re doing so because they can turn the bottles, cans, and various other scraps in for cash. What you may not know is […]

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March 22, 2013 Andy Cush

British television network ITV recently commissioned a documentary about Now That’s What I Call Music, the second-most iconic popular music compilation of all time (behind only Pure Moods, of course). Produced by Reef Television, the house behind such masterpieces as The Grape Escape, Sarah Beeny’s Selling Houses, and Britain’s First Photo Album Presented by John Seargant, the film will presumably tell […]

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March 8, 2013 Samer Kalaf

Here’s an epic eight-minute supercut from Leigh Singer of film characters interacting with the audience. There’s a solid narrative feel to this one. Almost every cut feels purposefully placed, like the succession of the original Funny Games followed by the remake. Oh yeah, there are probably spoilers, because movies and such. […]

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March 6, 2013 Andy Cush

If the above trailer doesn’t get you jazzed up to paint the shit out of some signs, I don’t know what would. Seriously, this thing looks amazing, plus it features a cameo from sign painting fanatic Steve Powers aka ESPO. Sign Painters begins screening in March. […]

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February 28, 2013 Andy Cush

Last month, we posted the trailer to Police Mortality, a 66-minute supercut of footage from various Hollywood films that tells a story of NYPD violence. “It’s about an existential crisis in the NYPD that results in terrorism, communism, OWS and total freedom,” the film’s creators told us at the time. “It stars Will Smith, Bruce Willis, Robocop, […]

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