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On a lovely day in the middle of nowhere, ten people sit at a red light...for a long time. Noel Honig's Stop It is a modern-day fable about the difficulty of forward progress.
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Ruben Romo has crafted a moving portrait of family relations in El Artista. Antonio takes care of his aging father who can no longer craft his famous hand-carved chairs. Antonio is soon forced to address his anger and to understand his father's passion.
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Matthew Stone's The Proof tells the story of a young boy who kills the family canary to prove God's existence.
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Lisa Robinson's Heads, Tires and Other Stories is a meandering comedy about indecision, meditation and tire rotation.
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New York's 42nd Street is the urban center of the institution of sin. Oren Moverman's Sex Shops examines a different kind of pornography that is transforming the neighborhood: family entertainment.
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The cinematography is breath-taking in Kristin Hawley's Metro as the elegant emptiness of a metro station reveals itself in its simplicity.
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Castle is Doug Ing's look at the city. Colors dance on buildings and streets as the city vibrates with life.
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Here is one of those boy-meets-boy, boy-loses-boy, boyfriend-gets gay-bashed, boy-finds-love-and-his-true-self stories I want to see on TV, but my cable operator doesn't offer QTV... Suffice to say that Defying Gravity is not your typical love story... it's better. Poor Griff, studly frat boy that everyone wants to be friends with, he's ''the ultimate boy next door,'' and has a great friend with his fraternity brother Todd. Griff also has a big secret: Pete. Griff and Pete get together for trysts now and again, but until he is given an ultimatum by Pete, Griff tries to pretend he's straight.
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A leather bar, a glance across the room and a spirited musical number.