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Raindance Film Festival · 2009

Raindance Film Festival 2009

North American Indies

The best of Stateside cinema.

Programme

11 films · 4 reviews

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Deadline

An ex-con confronts an abusive guard from his past.

(Country: US; Year: 2009; Director: Joseph Bakhash; Writer: Sean McPhillips)

Easier With Practice

Review preview for Easier With Practice

The film deserves praise for its maturity around sexuality.

Andrew Robertson · 4 out of 5
An unpublished author embarks on an unusual relationship after receiving a seemingly random phone call.

(Country: US; Year: 2009; Director: Kyle Patrick Alvarez; Writer: Kyle Patrick Alvarez, Davy Rothbart; Stars: Brian Geraghty, Kel O'Neill, Marguerite Moreau, Jeanette Brox, Jenna Gavigan, Kathryn Aselton, Danielle Lozeau, Lucas CorVatta, Lauren Petzke, Allison Hensel, Leandro Di Salvo, Daniel J Gonzales, Tavia Schwartz, Z Ray Wakeman)

The Girlfriend Experience

Review preview for The Girlfriend Experience

There’s nothing particularly radical about what Soderbergh is doing here.

Keith Hennessey Brown · 3.5 out of 5
Pornography is made subject to philosophy in this speculative art film.

(Country: US; Year: 2009; Director: Steven Soderbergh; Writer: Brian Koppelman, David Levien; Stars: Sasha Grey, Christopher Santos, Peter Zizzo, Jeff Grossman, Timothy J. Cox, Bridget Storm, Kimberly Magness, Ken Myers, Timothy Davis, Ted Jessup) , Official site

Closing night

Humpday

Review preview for Humpday

A mumblecore masterpiece.

George Williamson · 5 out of 5
Two old friends take male bonding a little too far.

(Country: US; Year: 2009; Director: Lynn Shelton; Writer: Lynn Shelton; Stars: Mark Duplass, Joshua Leonard, Alycia Delmore, Lynn Shelton, Trina Willard) , Official site

Opening night

Modern Love Is Automatic

Review preview for Modern Love Is Automatic

Modern Love Is Automatic has so much fun stuff going for it I was really willing it to be a better movie.

Chris · 3 out of 5
Risk-taking black comedy about a nurse who dishes out S&M to help cure her sense of alienation.

(Country: US; Year: 2009; Director: Zach Clark; Writer: Zach Clark; Stars: Melodie Sisk, Maggie Ross, Hannah Bennett, David Berkenbilt, Monte Brown, Carlos Bustamante, Diana Cherkas, Ray Converse, Joel Esslinger, Leo Goodman, Matthew Hartman, Rebecca A. Herron, Christina Holleran, Lydia Hyslop, Lenny Levy)

My Suicide

The obsessive multimedia-wanderings of a youth who declares he will top himself on camera.

(Country: US; Year: 2008; Director: David Lee Miller; Writer: Eric J Adams, David Lee Miller, David Lee Miller, Jordan J Miller, Gabriel Sunday; Stars: Gabriel Sunday, David Carradine, Mariel Hemingway, Brooke Nevin, Nora Dunn, Michael Welch, Zachary Ray Sherman, Vanessa Lengies, Harry Shearer, Tony Hale)

The Overbrook Brothers

A family secret forces to squabbling siblings on a road trip.

(Country: US; Year: 2009; Director: John E Bryant; Writer: John E Bryant, Jason Foxworth; Stars: Nathan Harlan, Mark Reeb, Laurel Whitsett, John Jones, Steve Zissis, Kerbey Smith, Denise Lee, Cyndi Williams, Marc Pouhe, Jett Garner, John Arkinson, Ellen Dolan, Orion Gallagher, Tony Gibson, Jennifer Harlow)

Redland

The devastating consequences of an affair in Depression-era America.

(Country: US; Year: 2009; Director: Asiel Norton; Writer: Asiel Norton, Magdalena Zyzak; Stars: Mark Aaron, Lucy Adden, Sean Thomas, Bernadette Murray, Kathan Fors, Toben Seymour, Elena Bell, Lacey Olson)

Son Of The Sunshine

A Tourette's syndrome sufferer undergoes experrimental surgery to try to correct it.

(Country: Canada; Year: 2009; Director: Ryan Ward; Writer: Ryan Ward, Matthew Heiti; Stars: Ryan Ward, Rebecca McMahon, Shantelle Canzanese, JoAnn Nordstrom, Craig Porritt, Steven L. Bird, Robert Skeates, Jordan Duarte, Don Tjart, Alyssa Abernot, Gal Amit, Zahir Gilani, Pamela Palsat, Jesse Potter)

Stuck!

Homage to film noir women-in-prison films with a tongue-in-cheek twist.

(Country: US; Year: 2010; Director: Steve Balderson; Writer: Frank Krainz, Steve Balderson, Jon Niccum; Stars: Karen Black, Jane Wiedlin, Mink Stole, Susan Traylor, Jeff Dylan Graham, Stacy Cunningham, Starina Johnson, Pleasant Gehman, Lady Monster, Betti O, September Carter) , Official site

You Won't Miss Me

A portrait of a modern day rebel, Shelly Brown, a 23-year-old, alienated, urban misfit recently released from a psychiatric hospital.

(Country: US; Year: 2009; Director: Ry Russo-Young; Writer: Ry Russo-Young, Stella Schnabel; Stars: Stella Schnabel, Borden Capalino, Simon O'Connor, Carlen Altman, Zachary Tucker)