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Existentialist low-budget comedy "about one of life's losers".
Variously labeled as a deadbeat by his ex, a failure by his mother, and a shell of himself by his best friend, Lousy Carter is falling apart, debt-ridden and cast adrift. As he interprets The Great Gatsby for an antipathetic graduate class, one of the students offers Lousy Carter one last chance at living the dream.
A tribute to Richard Linklater's Slacker made by members of the Austin Filmmakers Society.
Dark comedy tracks happy-go-lucky slacker Max across three decades.
Family ties and trauma Laurynas Bareisa on relationship dynamics in award-winning drama Drowning Dry
Looking back RaMell Ross on basketball, filmmaking, overcoming objectification and Nickel Boys
In dialogue with time Bookworm director Ant Timpson on the changing landscape of cinema
Shaping the cut Valerie Krulfeifer and Mickey Keating on their unreleasable past work and Invader
Peering into the heart of darkness Jeremy Strong on playing Roy Cohn in The Apprentice
The show must go on Nina Gantz on exploring grief with humour in Wander To Wonder
Going for gold Sebastian Stan on playing Donald Trump in The Apprentice
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