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...Last Station” and “Fish Tank”: Awards season wouldn’t be awards season without a few middlebrow, middle-quality art-house pieces that appear and then subsequently vanish from the Kendall Square Cinema over a few weeks in January. A month typically considered a dumping ground for poor movies, foreign and independent films can sometimes be fairly successful when pitted against the otherwise sparse landscape of January cinema. This year, however, hype over “Avatar” has blinded many to alternative movie-going options, which...
...develops a close relationship with her stepfather, who then sexually abuses her. Although this genre has often produced forgettable films, the accolades “Fish Tank” has received for its acting and writing suggest that it might be worth checking out before it fades into independent cinema obscurity...
...success has been a double-edged sword. The festival is widely known and respected, and it attracts some of cinema's best and brightest every year - as well as the fans, shills and paparazzi who feast on them. At this year's festival, which lasts through Jan. 31, the feature films star actors like Ben Affleck, Elijah Wood, Jessica Alba and Dakota Fanning. Yet for every Tilda Swinton, there is a Jon Gosselin to show up and pose for pictures or grab free "swag bags" at lounges set up by retailers who hope to get their clothes, watches and products...
...always in Denzel Washington's screen demeanor is the sense of power withheld, of anger internalized. He doesn't shout or strut, doesn't need to. Why raise your voice when a good stare from that handsome, solemn face will quiet any adversary? That is the mark of cinema charisma: an assurance that articulates itself through sheer presence. A hero has it; so does...
...Advocates of independent cinema say that low-cost option is sorely needed. "We are looking at what filmmakers need - and more and more, that means alternative distribution," Sundance director John Cooper told TIME. YouTube has already produced dozens of Internet stars. This new venture may end up launching the career of cinema's next great filmmaker...