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The last installment of the Soho Film Festival follows the winners of the special awards given out for their excellence in storytelling. The fourth year of the festival ran smoothly with a unique array of visual quality that was mastered in the art of storytelling, with films coming from all over the world. Of the 70 plus works featured at the festival, the following have won prizes for their works.

En Hemlighet (A Secret): A 9 minute short directed by Dennis Petersen, this Swedish short about love won the Best World Sort award.

El Presidente: Mark Meilly directed this Philippians 160 minute movie, about a general rising to power as American gained territory and power during the last days of the Spanish empire. This won the Best World Showcase award.

Running for Jim: Dan Noyes and Robin Hauser Reynolds directed this 78 minute film about a coach struggling to win. This film won the Best Documentary award.

On this week’s episode, Michael & I sit down to talk about the new IFC film Rites of Spring directed by Padraig Reynolds. Rites of Spring will be available on DVD on November 27th.

Show Notes:

Intro

What We’ve Been Watching (1:32)

Michael: Seven Psychopaths, I Am A Ghost, The Walking Dead (Season 3), Prince of Darkness

Andy: The Devil’s Carnival, The Silent Thief, Dexter, The Walking Dead (Season 3), The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

Andy Rants (26:50)

Picks of the Week for November 20, 2012 (30:08)

Michael’s Pick(s):

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Break (44:58)

Rites Of Spring Discussion (46:48)

Outro (1:14:10)

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The 21st Annual Whitaker St. Louis International Film Festival has just been voted Best Film Festival Ever!……..maybe……if it hasn’t it should because this year’s fest has provided a breathtaking variety of docs, dramas, foreign flix, comedies, shorts, and….you name it!

Sliff.s main venues are the the Hi-Pointe Theatre, Tivoli Theatre, Plaza Frontenac Cinema, Webster University.s Winifred Moore Auditorium, Washington University.s Brown Hall Auditorium and the Wildey Theatre in Edwardsville, Il

The entire schedule for the 21st Annual Whitaker St. Louis International Film Festival be found Here.

http://cinemastlouis.org/sliff-2012

Here is what will be screening at The 21st Whitaker St. Louis International Film Festival today, Friday, November 16th

Alter Egos

Alter Egos plays at 5:00pm at the Tivoli Theatre – Read The Wamg Review By Dana Jung Here

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Review by Dana Jung.

The .stranger in the house. subgenre of thrillers has a long and storied history, beginning with Hitchcock.s The Lodger and continuing through decades of disturbed roommates & houseguests, bonkers babysitters, and crazy nannies. The new film The Silent Thief adds some new wrinkles to this tried and true formula.

Toby Hemingway (Black Swan, In Time) is the mysterious Brennan, a quiet and well-mannered English bloke who answers a room for rent ad with the Henderson family. At first, everyone seems smitten with Brennan: mom (Frances Fisher) sees the sweet boy as the perfect solution to her partially empty nest with her older son away at college; daughter Elise (Scout Taylor-Compton) is intrigued by the exotic stranger and starts to develop romantic feelings for him; even dad (Kurt Fuller) warms up to the youth, who has all the right answers and plenty of cash. However, things start...

This Week’s Absolute Must Read is an absolute for sad reasons: David Hudson compiles the best tribute to famed film curator Amos Vogel, who passed away last week. Actually, “curator” probably isn’t the best word to summarize all that Vogel did in his life in promoting indie, avant-garde, experimental and underground film, but no word has been invented to how important his contributions to film curation, programming and scholarship have been.After actress Elizabeth Banks dissed the ’90s underground film Surrender Dorothy in which she starred, the movie’s director, Kevin Dinovis, politely chided her for not only insulting him, but the entire indie film scene. We here at Bad Lit: The Journal of Underground Film don’t have to be so polite. To quote the late, great Divine, we find Banks guilty of assholism. If you want to see Surrender Dorothy, which won Best Narrative Feature at the 1998 Chicago Underground Film Festival,...

While it’s easy and natural to assume that wayward drifter Brennan Marley (Toby Hemingway) is the eponymous criminal of the low-key thriller The Silent Thief, actually all of the characters in the film tend to keep mum about their lives of quiet desperation. The nice and seemingly normal suburban family that Brennan infiltrates are all leading lives of quiet desperation that make them easy prey.

The plot kicks in pretty quickly when Brennan is automatically welcomed with open arms into the Henderson family, who are renting out their son Mike’s (Cody Longo) room while he’s away at college. While there’s the perfunctory glancing at Brennan’s driver’s license, none of the Hendersons ever really bother to verify his identity or, probably more importantly, his sanity before they start treating him as a Mike substitute.

At first, it doesn’t totally seem quite believable that a...

Yes, the Oscars are being held tonite and despite Bad Lit’s predilection towards underground film, we will be watching, red carpet and all. But, if you want to kill time during the commercials, then consider clicking on some extra links below and boning up on non-Oscar film.

This week’s Absolute Must Read is J. J. Murphy’s Best Indie Films of 2011 list and commentary. In general, I rarely read movie reviews, but I find Murphy’s reviews to always be so insightful, educational and entertaining, that I savor every word of them — and you should, too! I’m also 100% with him when he discusses the issues of writing about over-looked and under-appreciated movies. It can be absolutely heartbreaking work, but we do it because we love it. And the other thing about Murphy’s reviews is that they always make me want to run right out and see...

The Silent Thief is the debut feature film by Jennifer Clary.

Brennan Marley (Toby Hemmingway) is an adolescent grifter who earns the trust and love of a suburban family after moving into their home while their eldest son, Mike (Cody Longo), is away at college. But, when Mike finally returns home, he’s the only one to suspect that the stranger living in his house is up to no good.

The film also stars Frances Fisher (Titanic) and Kurt Fuller (Midnight in Paris) as Mike’s parents and Scout Taylor-Compton (the Halloween remake and Halloween II) as his sister, all of whom are seduced by Brennan’s devious charms.

Bad Lit: The Journal of Underground Film previously reviewed Clary’s short film Dirty Girl way back in 2007, calling it an “extremely powerful film.”

For more information on The Silent Thief, please visit the film’s official website.

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First Look photo from the upcoming supernatural thriller 7500 (formerly ‘Flight 7500′), which features stars Ryan Kwanten, Amy Smart, Scout Taylor-Compton, Jerry Ferrara and Nicky Whelan, has released. The film follows a group of passengers who encounter what appears to be a supernatural force while on a transpacific flight. Kwanten and Smart will co-star as [...]

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