Thursday, November 15, 2007

Indie-ana Jonesing



Do you know what's totally hip nowadays? Watching Indie movies. And after watching Darjeeling Limited (which I recommend), I thought it would be fitting to list a few upcoming indie films that will make you an instant hipster....

Tomorrow is the release of Margot and the Wedding, which, according to IMDB is about "Margot and her son Claude [who] decide to visit her sister Pauline after she announces that she is getting married to less-than-impressive Malcolm. In short order, the storm the sisters create leaves behind a a mess of thrashed relationships and exposed family secrets."

Noah Baumbach's The Squid and the Whale was definitely funky, but this seems to be a bit lighter then that previous movie.

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January 25th is going to be a good day for indie movies because two (seemily) great movies will be coming out.

The first is Juno, which IMDB describes as a movie where, "faced with an unplanned pregnancy, an offbeat young woman makes an unusual and bizarre decision regarding her unborn child."

I know, I know, it sounds a bit grim. But watching the trailer will change your mind about the whole thing. After all, if Michael Cera is in a movie, you know it's at least going to be half decent.

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Finally, my most anticipated movie of the bunch is Be Kind, Rewind, which is about "a man (Black) whose brain becomes magnetized unintentionally destroys every tape in his friend's video store. In order to satisfy the store's most loyal renter, an aging woman with signs of dementia, the two men set out to remake the lost films, which include Back to the Future, The Lion King, and Robocop," according to IMDB.

The director also did Eternal Sunshine, Mos Def is cool, and it seems like Jack Black is really making a splash with these low-budget cool films. Watch the trailer for comical goodness.


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I think these movies serve as a good change to the lackluster blockbuster performances we've seen in the last couple of weeks.

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