A Steady Diet of Film

oh, snap

The most satisfying thing I've read all week comes, not surprisingly, from Walter Chaw:

Anymore, the Sundance imprint is a promise that a movie is going to be self-satisfied, laborious, and incompetent in that special way that independent films have become since getting co-opted by big money and directors looking to make a résumé instead of a film. You can call this shit "alternative," but alternative to what? Hustle & Flow is the same kind of underdog bullroar that mainstream producers who never met a pre-chewed master plot they haven't massaged introduce into the pool at every turn.

Read the full review here.

posted by Erin @ Friday, July 22, 2005