"It was a late hour on Thursday night when Parker Posey began tearing up the dance floor in Sundance's filmmaker lounge," Eric Kohn writes on GC Daily. "Nobody can deny the obvious metaphorical connotations of the festival's prototypical indie starlet showing off her legwork for a crowd mainly comprised of newbie auteurs. It felt like a gesture of optimism: Celebrate, fellow devotees of the moving image cult, for this is your moment." Kohn uses the "Posey metaphor" to wrap up this year's Sundance fest with a look at " cinematic offerings clearly define the standards associated with the festival." More >>

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We never knew a zombie flick could be so much fun until Shaun of the Dead came along. And now Zombieland follows pretty successfully in Shaun's bloody footsteps. "First-time feature director Ruben Fleischer brings impeccable timing and bloodthirsty wit to the proceedings," writes the LA Times' Michael Ordona. Adds Time's Richard Corliss: "An exhilarating ride, start to finish. This isn't just a good zombie comedy. It's a damn fine movie, period. And that's high praise, coming from a vampire guy." And yes, there's one hell of a cameo.

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GreenCine's own Craig Phillips on this indie horror film: "finds a maturing Ti West (The Roost) moving through similar terrain but more assuredly. It's again a return to old school horror but there's nothing campy here; it captures the vibe without winking at the audience." Noel Murray of AV Club calls it a "retro 'Satan rules!' thriller [that] gets the look and tone of early-’80s horror schlock exactly right."

Also out today: Adam; Amelia; Ong Bak 2: The Beginning; Planet Hulk; Triangle; New York, I Love You .

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Paris, TexasRent Read 

The three major figures of the German New Wave of the 1960s and 70s took three completely divergent paths... Wim Wenders became fascinated by America, and especially the open road that connected all the various people and places within. A good number of his movies deal with characters that travel from one place to another, especially the three-hour Kings of the Road (1976; sadly absent from DVD). Happily, his best-known and best-loved road movie Paris, Texas has just been re-issued in a beautiful Criterion Collection edition...Read review >>

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Enlighten UpRent Read 

For a movie that's so entertaining and even, at times, philosophically rich, it's too bad that Enlighten Up! has a gimmicky premise. Director Kate Churchill, in voiceover, describes her seven years of yoga practice, and wonders whether yoga can transform a person's life in only six months, whether it's possible for a total beginner to achieve a spiritual awakening in that time? (Why six months? Why not a year or more?) Kate herself is conveniently exempt from being a subject, so she sets about finding somebody who has never practiced yoga, so he can explore the subject. She'll just tag along and see what happens. Luckily for her, the beginner she finds is a young man named Nick Rosen, whose charisma, intelligence... Read more >>

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DeparturesRent Read 

The steal of the Best Foreign Language Film category at last year's Academy Awards ceremony, Departures (Okuribito), the Japanese entry directed by Yôjirô Takita (Onmyoji) and written by Kundo Koyama, was a surprise winner, besting critics' darlings Waltz With Bashir (from Israel) and The Class (France), Germany's The Baader Meinhof Complex and Austria's Revanche. This bizarre combination of death, tradition and cello playing did what so many of the winning films in this category have done down the decades: It moved, surprised and enlightened its audience.... Read review >>

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Chris Morris has amassed an impressive body of work in the UK as a trenchant writer, director, actor and prankster. Perhaps best known for his current-affairs TV satires like The Day Today (co-created with In the Loop director Armando Iannucci and featuring Steve Coogan's befuddled host Alan Partridge), Morris has also been in The IT Crowd. Premiering at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival, his directorial feature debut Four Lions has been brewing some oh-no-you-didn't controversy. Aaron Hillis spoke with Morris for a new podcast.

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