New indie films take steps toward connection
This article in the Boston Globe talks about two of my favorite movies this year, "Lost in Translation" and "American Splendor," and a couple new ones I want to see, "The Station Agent" and "The Cooler."

In a year when many mainstream studio efforts have been box-office disappointments, audiences seem hungry for the bittersweet refrains these smaller films offer, their soulfulness and sense of loss. These films are superbly nuanced, to use a term that has come up again and again in cultural writing this year, consistently avoiding formula and breaking new ground.

There's a nice quote from William H. Macy, who stars in The Cooler:

"Indies started off being about fringe elements of society... Now they're about things people find in their own kitchen or backyards -- the mundane things in life."

Right where I'm looking. (3rd house = the mundane, day-to-day)

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