Dan Persons

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Date registered: March 16, 2009
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Latest posts

  1. Cinefantastique Spotlight: BATTLESHIP — May 21, 2012
  2. Cinefantastique Spotlight: DARK SHADOWS — May 14, 2012
  3. Nadine Labaki on WHERE DO WE GO NOW? — May 11, 2012
  4. The Indie on Demand Movie Review: FIGHTVILLE — May 9, 2012
  5. Cinefantastique Spotlight: THE AVENGERS — May 7, 2012

Most commented posts

  1. Director Matt Aselton on GIGANTIC — 3 comments
  2. Tatia Rosenthal on $9.99 — 2 comments
  3. (Almost) Live from London: PIRATE RADIO vs. THE BOAT THAT ROCKED — 2 comments
  4. Rupert Wyatt on THE ESCAPIST — 1 comment
  5. Director Donny Moss on BLINDERS — 1 comment

Author's posts listings

Apr
24

Tribeca 2012 Diary: UNA NOCHE Director Lucy Mulloy

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by Dan Persons

The drama of three young Cubans taking the not-inconsequential step of escaping their country to the (possibly) welcoming arms of the United States is traced in startling detail in UNA NOCHE. Filming on-location, director Lucy Mulloy makes her feature film debut by capturing a compellingly credible portrayal of life in modern-day Havana — the struggle …

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Apr
23

Tribeca 2012 Diary: REPLICAS’ Jeremy Power Regimbal & Josh Close

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by Dan Persons

Cherish what you’ve got, ‘cuz it’s likely others sure as hell do. In REPLICAS, an upscale family (Selma Blair, Josh Close — who also wrote the screenplay — and Quinn Lord) take a trip to their vacation home in order to recover from a recent tragedy, and receive a visit from a set of excessively …

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Apr
22

Tribeca 2012 Diary: THE PLAYROOM Director Julia Dyer

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by Dan Persons

The kids are telling tales out of school, and so are their parents. Set one restless night in the mid-seventies, THE PLAYROOM juxtaposes a quartet of siblings spinning a strange, heartbreaking tale of freedom in their attic sanctuary with the darker dynamics of a small, “neighborly” get-together between adults in the living room below. Capturing …

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Apr
20

Tribeca 2012 Diary: HEADSHOT Director Pen-ek Ratanaruang

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by Dan Persons

The hitman’s in trouble. During a political assassination gone wrong, he gets shot in the head, and wakes from a coma seeing everything upside down. On top of that, seems that everyone wants to kill him, for various and sundry reasons. Days like this make an exciting career in HVAC maintenance sound mighty appealing. Thai …

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Apr
19

Tribeca 2012 Diary: BABYGIRL’s Macdara Vallely

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by Dan Persons

Yes, the Tribeca Film Festival brings the world to New York, but who knew the process could be so literal? In BABYGIRL, the very Irish director Macdara Vallely tells a very New York tale about Lena (Yanis Ynoa), a Nuyorican teen, who finds herself in the middle of a romantic triangle when her mother’s lover …

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Apr
18

The Indie on Demand Movie Review: HIT SO HARD

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by Dan Persons

Escape from the Rock: HIT SO HARD's Patty Schemel

Sex, drugs, and rock ‘n’ roll! Never gets tired, does it? Well, maybe if you’re actually in the middle of it, it may get to wear a bit, yeah. Which brings us to the subject of this week’s episode of our weekly radio show, The Indie on Demand Movie Review. The documentary HIT SO HARD …

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Apr
16

Cinefantastique Spotlight: THE CABIN IN THE WOODS

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by Dan Persons

Adhering to Form: Fran Kranz preps for survival in THE CABIN IN THE WOODS.

Joss Whedon has just been the busy, busy little bee lately, hasn’t he? He was one of the producers of the Morgan Spurlock documentary COMIC-CON EPISODE IV: A FAN’S HOPE last week; he’s the director of eagerly awaited THE AVENGERS, coming up in May; and this past weekend he produced and helped co-write THE CABIN …

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Apr
13

Philippe Falardeau on MONSIEUR LAZHAR

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Who's Healing?: Fellag (right) helps a class overcome tragedy in MONSIEUR LAZHAR.

An Oscar nominee this year for foreign language film, Philippe Falardeau’s MONSIEUR LAZHAR finds finely-shaded drama in a venue that has defeated many a filmmaker: a classroom full of children. Partly that’s because of the situation: In a Montreal elementary school, a teacher commits suicide, and the desperate principal calls upon a volunteer — Algerian …

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Apr
12

The Indie on Demand Movie Review: KINYARWANDA

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by Dan Persons

Cassandra Freeman as a soldier facing wanton slaughter in KINYARWANDA.

We’re back with the newest episode of my independent film review radio series, THE INDIE ON DEMAND MOVIE REVIEW. This time, we’re looking at KINYARWANDA, a new drama in which director Alrick Brown uses a fractured timeline and mutable genres to portray how the Rwandan genocide of 1994 looked to those trapped in its madness, …

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Apr
08

Cinefantastique Spotlight: BURN, WITCH, BURN

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Do Do That Career Advancement That You Do So Well: Janet Blair prevails upon supernatural forces to help Peter Wyngarde in BURN, WITCH, BURN.

Tricky situation this week: Two genre releases, but one, while good, is getting a very limited release to start; the other, while making it to more venues, doesn’t quite merit the attention. So we’re dipping into our 50th Anniversary archives to bring out a goody from 1962: BURN, WITCH, BURN (a.k.a. NIGHT OF THE EAGLE). …

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