Entries tagged “Barry Jenkins”
Fresh film faces.
By Alison Willmore on 07/22/2008
Filmmaker Magazine has just released its annual round-up of indie film up-and-comers, "25 New Faces in Independent Film." Quite a few of them are familiar -- congrats in particular to Barry Jenkins, whose great "Medicine for Melancholy" premiered at SXSW this year; Tom Quinn, whose "The New Year Parade" won the best narrative prize at Slamdance; and David and Nathan Zellner, designated "filmmakers who should have been on the list in the five previous years but inexplicably weren't," whose "Goliath" debuted at Sundance and is now available on VOD via our sister company IFC Films. According to the accompanying press... MORE »
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SXSW 2008: "Medicine for Melancholy."
By Alison Willmore on 03/13/2008
Filed under: Festivals, ReviewsThe details of Barry Jenkins' righteous "Medicine for Melancholy" — fixed-gear bikes and messenger bags, bottled iced tea and late night tacos, Rainbow Grocery and Casiotone for the Painfully Alone, old Victorians and housing rights discussions — evoke a life I once lead so strongly that watching the film sent me into sense memory flashbacks. A bittersweet paean to San Francisco and its indie scene, "Medicine for Melancholy" is also a vivid semi-love story and a contemplation of race and gentrification in the city — and to answer the question that was posed to producer Justin Barber at the Q&A... MORE »
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