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• HOME VIDEO PICKS
  Pick of the Week Project Nim (Lionsgate) — To its tremendous credit, Project Nim does not presume to make a political case for anything more than the experience and feelings of its animal subject; there may be no more potent form of cinematic advocacy than bringing into full view the emotional life of a subject [...][...]
• SUNDANCE ’12: Filmmaker/Industry Reflections (Pt. 1)
  Last year, we came up with the idea for this personal post-Sundance yearbook of sorts. For whatever reason, we didn’t receive nearly as many replies as in ’11—I feel like I cast as wide of a line this year—but anyhow, here is what we’ve received so far. If more trickle in over the course of [...][...]
• BAD FEVER
  To be clear, Bad Fever isn’t some hip exercise in retro coolness. Defa’s film is a darkly funny, ultimately crushing portrait of a lost soul who is unable to forge the type of connection he so desperately wants.[...]