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Hey everyone, it's been a terrific ride, but this community is going dark for a little while. You'll still be able to view old posts and click on the links, but nothing new will be going up for now. I want to thank everyone for their participation and insight. I've had a fabulous time showing up and talking Indie film with all of you.

We do hope to be up and running again in the future, though, so keep your eyes peeled.

In the meantime, there are some great Indies out in the theaters right now, and even more out on DVD, so I hope to hear all about the things you've been watching and digging when we return!

Happy 2008 everyone!

I got the new "Blade Runner" DVD tonight and I just want to recommend it to all movie fans.   The new print looks incredible.  It really enhances this great movie to see such a quality print of it.   I'm appreciating aspects of it I've never really noticed before.    

Congratulations to the following winners:

Sexiest moment: cubiclefever and repenthea

Indie Love Story: skoptzygrrl (also supported by peer review:) and schizometric for coming up with a film, and evidence for it, that I've never heard of!

Best Teenager: caseystrip

Picture Form:a_jaclyn

Ghost Story: just_happening and lunarflares


Please leave me your e-mail addresses in the screened comments so we can get you your prizes!!

It's almost 2008!

What was on your top 10 ten best of 2007 list? (Filmwise, of course).

I'd say:

1. No Country for Old Men
2. Black Sheep
3. Wristcutters
4. Juno
5. Once
6. Hot Fuzz
7. Ratatouille
8. The Simpsons Movie (shut up. I'm as embarrassed as you are! Spider Pig, Spider Pig...)

Are my best of so far.

To be fair, I've seen a lot of things this year that weren't released this year, and missed a lot (like Rocket Science) that I'd have loved to have seen.

Plus, I'm leaving two spots open: One for Sweeney Todd, and one for a final pass at making this list even!

Does anyone have a release date for the Savages?
I've been wanting to see this for sometime now but none of the trailers I've seen have dates on them.

I watched this film on IFC this weekend, and I have to say it was a wee to cryptic for my taste.

Normally that isn't a bad film quality, but for a film like this, in my opinion there should be a cleaner clearer voice on the topic.

I found it quite hypnotic image wise, but some images just puzzled me and I found myself wondering why the director chose that particular image for the scene, what was the significance etc..

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I found myself quite intrigued by the conversation the main character has with his friend while he is wearing a blond wig and makeup explaining to his friend that he isn't gay. Tho he clearly wants to have sex with an older boy.

It was also alarming that in the end it seemed that the boy wanting to dress up like and be a woman was because the boy he was attracted to was "straight". I have known many a transexual that has the same reasoning. "I like straight guys."

Has anyone else seen this film and what are your impressions???

Our last movie in the current queue, Russian Ark, is notable for several reasons, not the least of which is that it encompasses one, long 90 minute shot, which is frankly a crazy sort of technical achievement.

Here's the trailer: Russian Ark trailer

If anyone has seen this, what did you think of the film itself, technical achievement aside. It's a sort of fascinating glimpse through Russian history, lyrical and visual and dreamy.

So, while Grand Ecole isn't only about sex and sexuality, the physical plays a pretty strong role. Unlike Exterminating Angels, this isn't so much about the voyeurism or power dynamic of sex, but the way that our sexual yearnings and longings can shape our decisions and our identities.

Which brings us to today's challenge:

Describe the scene from an indie film (or any film) that you felt was the sexiest - doesn't have to actually involve sex, or nudity or lust, it can be about longing, or want, it can have nothing to do with physical desire at all, but still just pinged for you as a viewer on an intensely visceral level.

My favorite description/justification will win the prize.

I'd also like to open up the discussion on this front? What makes a moment or a scene sexy, particularly if there's no nudity, if there's no actually sex in it. What films are highly charged without completely becoming about that sexuality? And how do the actors and directors use that energy to keep our interest?

So, we continue the themes of difficult love, now adding into this the questions of sexual identity and lust, philosophy and confusion.

Grand Ecole is unquestionably French in sensibility, Foucault mixed with sex, class issues, race issues and the overwhelmingness of lust and love.

You can find a trailer for the film here: http://pyramidefilms.com/grande-ecole/
Click on "bande annonce + extraits" and then choose "bande annonce". Fair warning, the trailer is fairly explicit, as is the film, so if that's not your ball of wax, you know now!

However, it's a fun and complicated and sexy film that should definitely help heat up the chilly December days!

Juno was charming and mostly unpredictable. The cast was stellar and while it wasn't quite as subversive or ironic as Reitman's last film (Thank You for Smoking), I thoroughly enjoyed it. Plus, I'm a big sap and I like a certain kind of happy ending.

So, for today's contest, favorite atypical Indie love story, complete with visual documentation - can be an icon, a still, a header, a photo, anything that documents you're favorite Indie romance.

My favorite "evidence" will win someone a DVD!