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11/11/09
One of the most critically acclaimed films of 2008, Lance Hammer's "Ballast" comes to DVD this week, courtesy of Kino. "Superficially, Ballast is a distinctly American work, but Hammer infuses it with a European sensibility that separates it from the rest of the pack," writes Michael Tully at Hammer to Nail in his survey of the week's DVD releases.
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indieWIRE
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11/10/09
There's little point in attempting to figure why Lance Hammer's "Ballast," the best American film of 2008, was whisked in and out of so few theaters so quickly, in contrast even to minimalist imports and special-interest video docs in the same span, and despite universal critical hosannas.
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Independent Film Channel (IFC)
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06/23/09
For the black men, women and children in "Mississippi Damned," Tina Mabry's autobiographical saga of intertwined destinies, that southern state epitomizes a domestic hell of borderline poverty and endemic abuse.
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Variety
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05/05/09
Kelly Reichardt's "Wendy & Lucy" may be -- in competition only with Lance Hammer's "Ballast" -- the best film of 2008, and both movies have been so underseen by the public that they could be said to have not been released at all.
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Independent Film Channel (IFC)
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01/23/09
Film Independent, announced the lineup for the ninth annual Directors Close-Up: Conversations on the Art of Filmmaking, formerly known as the Director Series.
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indieWIRE
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01/12/09
Joe the Filmmaker just found out he's going to Sundance with his debut film.
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indieWIRE