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Salute Your Shorts: ShortsLab

Since the beginning of Salute Your Shorts, one of the primary reasons for this column has been to support the creation and appreciation of short films. You wouldn’t necessarily think that this would be necessary, but short films, while much more easily accessible due to YouTube and the nigh-infinite other streaming video services, remain critically neglected and weirdly ghettoized. For some reason there’s an assumption that if a movie is 70 minutes long it’s worth $10 of your money to see in theaters while if it’s 45 minutes long it isn’t even worth your time....  read more

It’s Kind of a Funny Story Review

Directors: Anna Boden, Ryan Fleck Writers: Anna Boden, Ryan Fleck Cinematographer: Andrij Parekh Starring: Keir Gilchrist, Zach Galifianakis, Lauren Graham, Jim Gaffigan, Emma Roberts Studio: Focus Features, 91 min. Crazy is as crazy does....  read more

Watch the Trailer for It's Kind of a Funny Story

The trailer for It’s Kind of a Funny Story, Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden’s upcoming film about a teenager who checks himself into a mental facility to escape the pressures of, well, being a teenager, has been released to these very interwebs....  read more

15 Masterful Directors with Films in 2010

Even the best actors will occasionally take a paycheck from a film they know is a stinker, but a great director is the closest Hollywood has to a sure thing.  read more

Viola Davis to Get Dramatic With David Schwimmer, Zach Galifianakis

Viola Davis, who first earned mainstream attention after an Oscar nod for her supporting role in last year’s Doubt, appears to be pursuing a career in psychiatry. That, or she’s just working really hard at getting type-cast....  read more

Zach Galifianakis Gets Dramatic Role in Teen Film

Expect some changes in Zach Galifianakis' career. The mostly-comedic actor is set to play a more dramatic, meatier role in It's Kind of a Funny Story, due to begin shooting later this year....  read more

Sugar

Sugar, the second film by the young writer-director duo...  read more

Sundance 2008: Sugar interview

Click above to watch an exclusive interview with Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck, writers and directors of the film Sugar....  read more