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Indie Roundup reviews the past week of news from the independent film community and provides a peek at what's coming soon. Friday Openings. Fox Searchlight opens Marc Webb's romantic comedy (500) Days of Summer on 27 screens in selected cities (Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, New York, San Diego, San Francisco, Seattle, Toronto, and Washington DC). Also in limited engagements: John-Luke Montias' crime story Off Jackson Avenue; Max Farberbock's drama A Woman in Berlin; Boaz Yakin's family drama Death in Love; and Eileen Yaghoobrian's very good doc Died Young, Stayed Pretty, about rock music poster artists, which I saw at SXSW and can recommend highly. Deals. Overcoming negative reviews at Sundance, John Krasinski's Brief Interviews with Hideous Men has been acquired by IFC, which will release it in theaters and via on demand. Look for it September 25. Another Sundance '09 title, Oren Moverman's The Messenger, has been picked up by Oscilloscope, which plans an awards campaign in November for actors Ben Foster, Samantha Morton, and Woody Harrelson, as well as director/writer Moverman and co-scripter Alessandro Camon. [All details available at indieWIRE.] Online / On-Demand Viewing. Margaret Brown's excellent doc Townes Van Zandt: Be Here to Love Me is available for free online viewing at Pitchfork TV for one week. It's a captivating portrait of a little-known artist and the "awkwardness of his genius," as Christopher Campbell aptly wrote in his review. If you're in the mood for some fictional thrills of the criminal heist kind, check out Wild Seven, with Robert Forster and Richard Roundtree, available for free at Babelgum for the month. After the jump: Indie Weekend Box Office, Filmmaker Magazine's "25 New Faces," and indieWIRE turns 13!Filed under: Comedy, Documentary, Drama, Foreign Language, Independent, Music & Musicals, Box Office, Home Entertainment, Cinematical IndieContinue reading Indie Roundup: 'Hideous,' 'Messenger,' Townes Van Zandt Permalink | Email this | Comments

Filed under: Drama, Independent, SXSW, Sundance, Festival Reports, Podcasts, Cinematical Indie, The Rocchi Review: Online Film Community Podcast Can you program one film festival and show your film at another? Is South By Southwest now, officially, cooler than Sundance? And what are the challenges of a modern romance film, and how much of your life can you get away with turning into art? Joining us this week on The Rocchi Review is Michael Lerman, co-writer and co-director of the SXSW Emerging Visions selection Natural Causes. Cinematical's podcast content now has even better sound quality, and is now in iTunes; you can subscribe at this link. Also, you can listen directly here at Cinematical by clicking below: As ever, you can download the entire podcast right here -- and those of you with RSS Podcast readers can find all of Cinematical's podcast content at this link.Permalink | Email this | Comments

At Casa del Mar in Santa Monica, Film Independent celebrates the annual Independent Spirit Awards, with the 2008 nominees introducing themselves... More at indieWIRE.com/awards.Author: indiewire Tags: spirit awards indiewire marisa tomei jason reitman Posted: 22 February 2008 Rating: 0.0 Votes: 0

Exclusive clip from Madonna's directorial debut... Having its world premiere at the 2008 Berlin International Film Festival, Madonna's feature film directing debut, Filth looks at the intertwined lives of a group of Londoners. indieWIRE interviewed Madonna about the film in Berlin, which you can read at indieWIRE.com. Film clip published with the permission of HSI. [WARNING: The scenes from Filth and Wisdom contain language that some may find objectionable.]Author: indiewire Tags: madonna indiewire berlin wisdom feature film Posted: 13 February 2008 Rating: 3.9 Votes: 10

Exclusive clip from Madonna's directorial debut... Having its world premiere at the

http://www.sundancechannel.com/festival Tech experts explore DIY distribution tactics in this point-and-click era, including collaborative filtering, monetization, eyeballs, and other Digital Age-isms. Author: sundancechannel Keywords: sundance film festival 2008 without box indiewire tech experts independent movie digital Added: January 26, 2008

http://www.sundancechannel.com/festival High school film critic Whitley Palmer and Eugene Hernandez, Editor in Chief and Co-founder of indieWIRE.com, compare notes after a night of SECRECY. Author: sundancechannel Keywords: whitley palmer sundance film festival 2008 indiewire secrecy Added: January 24, 2008

A moment from September 6th's "The Erin Scherer Show" at NYC's Kraine Theatre. Erin is a documentary filmmaker, YouTube superstar, and performer of her above-mentioned one-woman show, who I first learned of on SXSW Film Festival Producer Matt Dentler's indieWIRE blog back in July, In this clip, Erin performs an interpretative dance of MC Hammer's "U Can't Touch This." Sorry the sound is... Author: filmpanelnotetaker Keywords: Erin Scherer MC Hammer U Can't Touch This SXSW Matt Dentler indieWIRE Added: September 7, 2007

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Trailer: A first time father with an apartment overflowing with mementos explores the eclectic, bizarre collage of discarded family belongings at yard sales in an attempt to clarify what's really worth holding on to.  Documentary Shorts Competition, 2006. Sun. Jan 22 @ 5:00pm; Wed. Jan 25 @ 3:30pm. Slamdance.com page

Trailer: Amnuy, a Thai mother, has to make the choice between keeping her youngest daughter or leaving her to save the child’s life. Documentary Competition Feature, 2006. Sat, Jan 21 @5:00pm; Wed, Jan 25 @12:30pm Slamdance.com page

Trailer: Svankmajer meets Japanese horror in Jamie Travis' highly self- conscious allegory of innocence and experience. As Pauline waits for an important phone call, she is corrupted by the malignant forces of adulthood. Gallery Short, 2006. Fri, Jan 20 at 1:00pm; Sun, Jan 22 at 3:00pm; Thu, Jan 26 at 11:00am. Slamdance.com page.