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The 20 Best Acting Performances of Sundance 2012

Sundance isn't just a place where great directors are born and grow, it's also the home of some of the best acting performances of each year in film. Paste film editor Michael Dunaway and contributing writer Jeremy Matthews each pick their 10 favorites.  read more

Paste mPlayer Issue 16 Is Live!

It’s been two decades since Richard Linklater’s Slacker hit theaters. Paste’s Michael Dunaway talked to several Linklater collaborators and admirers—Parker Posey, Jason Reitman, Greg Kinnear, Miranda Cosgrove, Keanu Reeves and Ethan Hawke for our first-ever animated cover....  read more

Sundance Preview Week: 10 Slamdance & Smaller Sundance Films We're Looking Forward To

Experienced Sundancers get a twinkle in their eye when they tell you about the exquisite little film they discovered...  read more

Happy Tears Review

Release Date: Feb. 19 Director/Writer: Mitchell Lichtenstein Cinematography: Jamie Anderson Starring: Parker Posey, Demi Moore, Rip Torn, Ellen Barkin, Christian Camargo Studio/Run Time: Roadside Attractions, 95 mins. Complicated yet oddly light family story Watching a parent’s health deteriorate is always a uniquely excruciating process: For Jayne (Parker Posey) and Laura (Demi Moore), two sisters who reluctantly return to Pittsburgh to confront their alcoholic father’s worsening dementia, the experience is equal parts bizarre and heartbreaking. Happy Tears is Mitchell Lichtenstein’s second feature (his first, dark 2007 comedy Teeth, remains the definitive text on vagina dentata). Somewhat appropriately, Happy Tears’...  read more

Parker Posey, Johnny Knoxville join Waters' Fruitcake

Four years ago, John Waters released a Christmas album. Yes, you read that right. Waters, the boundary pushing director and actor, the man best known for his love of camp and cross-dressers, released an album full of handpicked Christmas tunes like "Fat Daddy," "Here Comes Fatty Claus," and "Happy Birthday Jesus." The album's release must have ignited Waters' passion for the festive holiday, because last year it was announced that he'd be helming a children's Christmas movie. (Yes, you read that right too.) And, as is standard in the World of Waters, the story only gets stranger. Recently, it was...  read more

Broken English

Director Zoe Cassavetes has some impressive family ties. Her mother, Gena Rowlands...  read more

Parker Posey

Parker Posey is twisting herself into a pretzel...  read more