The simple lives of two home-schooled, music-loving, taxidermy-practicing, small-town sisters gets disrupted by an indie rock rebel in Rebecca Conroy‘s wonderfully deadpan short film From the Woods. Like a punk rock version of Degrassi High (the original version), the film has a wonderful sense of style — the costuming is exquisite — and an authentic feel for the awkwardness of first love, in spite of the more eccentric characteristics of the two lead characters. It’s a lovely, charming piece of work.
Real-life sisters Lilie and Wren Bytheway-Hoy star as the on-screen sisters Roxy and Clover, who both come across as more mature than their ages, but exhibiting, too, an innocence that comes from their lack of interaction with the outside world. Therefore, when Roxy encounters her first love, her head is filled with the daydream images of romance she’s clipped from magazines even though Ethan (Colin Stein) is clearly...
Real-life sisters Lilie and Wren Bytheway-Hoy star as the on-screen sisters Roxy and Clover, who both come across as more mature than their ages, but exhibiting, too, an innocence that comes from their lack of interaction with the outside world. Therefore, when Roxy encounters her first love, her head is filled with the daydream images of romance she’s clipped from magazines even though Ethan (Colin Stein) is clearly...
- 1/9/2011
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
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In the spirit of Cinema Retro's quest to help make audiences aware of worthwhile independent films, columnist David Savage reports on the new short Sahaja Springs.
If precious few directors have exploited the inherent comedy of the ashram -- a retreat for meditation, yoga and enlightenment -- it may be because, like the fashion biz and network television, for example -- these realms do an awfully good job of satirizing themselves.
One director willing to take a stab at sending up the yoga lifestyle is emerging indie director Rebecca Conroy, a recent graduate of Columbia University's graduate film program. Her hilarious short, Sahaja Springs, recently screened at the IFC Center in Manhattan, and has both tickled and angered audiences, depending on whom you ask. (Men seem to be amused; women, not so much, according to Conroy.)
The film's multi-thread narrative follows a group...
In the spirit of Cinema Retro's quest to help make audiences aware of worthwhile independent films, columnist David Savage reports on the new short Sahaja Springs.
If precious few directors have exploited the inherent comedy of the ashram -- a retreat for meditation, yoga and enlightenment -- it may be because, like the fashion biz and network television, for example -- these realms do an awfully good job of satirizing themselves.
One director willing to take a stab at sending up the yoga lifestyle is emerging indie director Rebecca Conroy, a recent graduate of Columbia University's graduate film program. Her hilarious short, Sahaja Springs, recently screened at the IFC Center in Manhattan, and has both tickled and angered audiences, depending on whom you ask. (Men seem to be amused; women, not so much, according to Conroy.)
The film's multi-thread narrative follows a group...
- 6/15/2010
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
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