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[WHAT'S
COOL: AMERICAN INDEPENDENTS 2001 at Laemmle]
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Angeles' Laemmle Theatres presents a series of exciting and
hard to find American Independent Films starting Friday, May
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by Quentin Lee
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| Not sure if you have ever been to the Independent
Feature Film Market (IFFM) in New York. But every year, there
are hundreds of American independent films tmade but they never
get to see the day of light. It's not just a matter of quality,
because many excellent indie films don't get to go to Sundance
or even the tiniest film festival. Even if they get to a festival
like Sundance, Berlin or Toronto, most films don't get bought.
Therefore, you won't get to catch it. |
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Los Angeles' Laemmle Theatres have been working hard to show
independent films that you usually don't get to watch, so
here is a fabulous series called "American Independents
2001" which start playing morning shows at Laemmle's
Sunset 5 and Monica 4 starting Saturday May 7.Check them out!.jpg)
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SURRENDER
DOROTHY
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SUNSET 5: April 7 & 8
10am
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MONICA 4: April 14 &
15 11am
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Destiny
Entertainment - 87 minutes - 1998 - 16mm
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Trevor is a 27-year-old
busboy who suffers from a paralyzing fear of women, a
phobia which condemns him to a life of bitter celibacy.
Trevor's hermetic lifestyle is changed by Lanh, a 25-year-old
heroin addict who turns up on his doorstep one night after
robbing a local street dealer. Trevor offers Lanh refuge,
but Lanh soon realizes that Trevor's kindness carries
a terrible price. Completely dependent on Trevor for drugs
and safety, Lahn becomes Trevor's slave, and Trevor discovers
that he has the power to manipulate, coerce and terrorize
Lahn into becoming his "Dorothy." |
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GOD'S
LONELY MAN
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SUNSET 5: April
14 & 15 10am
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MONICA 4: April
21 & 22 11am
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Panorama
Entertainment - 99 minutes - 1996
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Ernest Rackman has suffered
a lifetime of frustration, fear and loneliness, filling
his days of quiet desperation clerking at an adult bookstore
and abusing drugs. Shy and awkward, he struggles to connect
with the daughter of the bookstore owner. His advances
cost him his job and solitude tightens its grip. "In 'God's
Lonely Man' Frank von Zerneck Jr. has crafted a film with
all the simplicity, beauty and elegant stealth of an adder.
A lethal tale stripped to its primal elements, there is
nothing about it that does not either hypnotize, sting
or transport with strange beauty and chilling, corrosive
terror. That it is a first film only makes it all the
more stunning." -Wes Craven |
 Read
Indierag's review |
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THE
INVISIBLES
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SUNSET 5: April
21 & 22 10am
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MONICA 4: April 28 &
29 11am
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Visionbox
Pictures / Zero Pictures - 86 minutes - 1999
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Jude and Joy (Portia de
Rossi), a rock star and a model, escape from rehab and
seek refuge in Joy's Paris flat. Hiding from the world,
they struggle to make sense of their lives through withdrawal,
conversation, and food from "le pizza guy." As "The
Invisibles" progresses, we are taken further into
the substance of these charismatic characters. Rendered
in black and white with thoughtful attention to composition,
this is a fresh and buoyant film. Rarely does a movie
set in one room pique the senses for a full two hours,
but the pithy dialogue that scratches away at the conflicts
between youth and insecurity, success and addiction make
this an engaging and witty drama. |
| Read
Indierag's review |
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BETTY
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SUNSET 5: April 28 &
29 10am
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MONICA 4: May 5 & 6 11am
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Panorama
Entertainment - 88 minutes - 1997
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"Betty" is a classic
fish-out-of-water comedy about the most famous actress
in the world, Betty Monday, and her flight from Hollywood
in search of a normal life in Palm Springs. What follows
is anything but normal. Betty begins leaping from one
odd job to the next, interacting with a cast of unusual
characters who lead her on an Oz-like journey. She apprentices
for a swimming pool cleaner, attempts to become a golf
pro, and tries to sell analgesic lotion with a huckster
before her agent/therapist tracks her down. |
| Read
Indierag's review |
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PANTS
ON FIRE
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SUNSET 5: May 5 & 6 10am
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MONICA 4: May
12 & 13 11am
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Shadow
Entertainment - 107 minutes - 1998
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Preoccupied with his campaign
to become District Attorney, Deputy D.A. Max Hammer has
no idea that his wife, first grade teacher Julie, is having
an enthusiastically wanton affair with fellow teacher
Barry Grogan. It soon comes out however, that there is
deception and infidelity on all sides. A sex farce and
satire of suburban America with "an acute sensitivity
to the minute mood fluctuations in intimate relationships,"
"Pants on Fire" features some dazzling performances
and "hits unusual tonal notes rarely heard in American
independent fare" (Variety). The film won Best Screenplay
at the L.A. Independent Film Festival. |
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TOO
TIRED TO DIE
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SUNSET 5: May
12 & 13 10am
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MONICA 4: May
19 & 20 11am
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Phaedra
- 101 minutes - 1998
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"Too Tired to Die"
is about Kenji, an aimless young Japanese man living in
New York whose life changes dramatically when his dream
of Death (Mira Sorvino) as a beautiful woman becomes
reality. She tells him he has only 12 hours to live, so
the clueless man is forced to make sense of his meaningless
life. Time, however, is running out. Also starring Jeffrey
Wright and Ben Gazzara. "Wonderful...delightful...a cinephile's
wet dream, a pop artifact that trades in equal measures
of contempo Asian rootlessness, European art-film doodlings
and downtown New York hipsterism." -- Variety |
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| "Too Tired to Die" will play with
the short film "Fever Pitch" |
| Read
Indierag's review |
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Excerpted from Laemmle's
Press Releases & Website
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OFFICIAL
WEBSITE
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For showtimes and ticket information,
go to:
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Call Sunset 5: 323 848-3500
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Call Monica 4: 310 394-9741
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