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5 small movies that I loved

August 26th, 2008 · 2 Comments

There are others but these are the ones that popped to mind.

  • Igby Goes Down: A modern Holden Caufield.  Young urban angst in all its heartbreaking glory.
  • Mysterious Skin: The beginning of what will be a lifelong adoration of Joseph Gorden-Levitt.
  • Quinceanera: Small and pointed but also full of love and hope and possibility.
  • Junebug: You can’t go home again but in some ways you can never leave it behind either.
  • Lone Star: America’s story in all its twisted, screwed up, hot pot of race and class and love.

Tags: 5 things · What's on the screen

2 responses so far ↓

  • 1 dan // Aug 27, 2008 at 10:36 am

    Junebug and Lone Star are both great. I’ll have to check out the others.

    Check out Sweetland and Millions, two other great small movies. Sweetland could have been set in a Mennonite village, so it’s your obligation to see it, if you can find it anywhere…

  • 2 urbanmenno // Aug 27, 2008 at 6:58 pm

    Sweetland is the movie about the farmer bringing the German? wife, right? Because I did see it and I did like it. It was a Netflix recommendation that actually did right by me (for once!).

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