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Sleep Dealer (2008)
Indie FX film
I caught this film yesterday at the Sundance film festival. Sleep Dealer is definitely a bold attempt at crafting an independent FX film by an obviously talented up and coming director. More than once I thought of Cronenberg's "eXistenZ" but it is unfair to compare the two films. Sleep Dealer has a much more simple and perhaps a little weaker story and really suffered from an unoriginal and uninspired score, but I still might have had the score to Half-Life, a far more effective score in my head from the screening the night before. I can see why Sundance picked the film but I hope to see a more from this director in the future!
Half-Life (2008)
Best of Fest!
Probably the best film I saw this year at Sundance. The film is amazingly well crafted and profound. The type of film that you expect to see at Sundance. The film revolves around a family falling apart, personal identity, sexual identity, and religion, without being preachy. There are a number of very creative animated sequences, shot with the confidence of a real art film, the pace of the film is a welcome relief in our MTV quick cut era and had the best music of any film I saw at the festival (why do so many Sundance films have uninspired or just bad music) If your a fan of real art and cinema, this is the film for you!