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Poll Question: Which indie film do you like most?
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    Posted: April 23 2010 at 18:14
The original Night of the Living Dead. No major studio, no distributor,no budget. 
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Originally posted by King By-Tor King By-Tor wrote:

But none of these are indie films...
I think a documentary can still count as an indie film, and WalMart: The High Cost of Low Price was not touched by a major studio at any point and it also had a limited run in theaters, so at least that one counts. The others I would have trouble calling actual films, since they're just uploaded to the internet and you can buy a DVD if you're a sucker. And of course the Michael Moore and others, yeah. Especially The Weatherman. Come on, Fusion King, Nicholas Cage?
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But none of these are indie films...
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Originally posted by harmonium.ro harmonium.ro wrote:

Can Focus Features be considered an indie studio? If yes, they've got a lot of my favourite modern films.


I guess it can't LOL

Focus Features (formerly USA Films, Universal Focus and Good Machine) is the art house films division of NBC Universal's Universal Pictures, and acts as both a producer and distributor for its own films and a distributor for foreign films.
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Can Focus Features be considered an indie studio? If yes, they've got a lot of my favourite modern films.

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Pan's Labyrinth, easily ...I'm a sucker for archetypal & mythological motifs Tongue
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I won't vote 'cos i haven't seen many of these.  But I'm pretty sure 'Pan's Labyrinth' would get my vote even if I had seen the rest!  I love the way it shifts between fantasy and the brutality of Franco's Spain.  I would recommend 'The Devil's Backbone'  which is del Torro's film before this and is excellent too!

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Still better than most muti-million dollar movies.
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Originally posted by KoS KoS wrote:

I watched that because of The Onion, and it was just stupid. The basic idea was clever, but once it spiraled out of control there were too many holes (and yes, I got it, although I did have to look at the internet, but the whole major plotline is a copout). And the dialogue was terrible. I can't even imagine characters more bland than those engineers.


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Not sure what's "indie" about the list, but Pan's Labyrinth was f**king creepy- in a great way.  Loved it.  
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The Weatherman for me, because the subject matter was quite interesting 
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None of the above. The independent movie that shocked me is currently in my signature: Nine Lives of Tomas Katz, critics described it as a pretentious, incoherent avantgarde nonsense, but I think it's one of the best motion pictures ever: it struck me deeply, and I can't explain why.
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Am I misunderstanding what an indie film is?  these poll choices dont make sense to me
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Eraserhead.
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What a strange list: the first movie belongs to the fantastic genre and had been directed by a Spanish director (Del Toro) and the other are - more or less - documentaries.
It's really Apple & Oranges (and, if I read what Plainview wrote, some fruits seem to be rotten). Speaking about "indie" films, I was expecting "Little Miss Sunshine", Wes Anderson, Greg Araki, etc.
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So the first four, skipping Walmart, were distributed by major studios, and Farenheit 9/11 is the highest grossing documentary ever, so I am fairly certain those doesn't qualify as indie...And the last four are unbelievably stupid conspiracy theories that appear to have had a limited run in theaters, but now exist primarily as uploads on Google Videos, so I don't think those count either.
 
I can tell you for certain that I hate Zeitgeist the most, as it is one of the primary causes of people posting terrible ideas on the internet, but I think that if I watched it I could work up quite a fury for A Ludicrous Diversion, as idiotic 9/11 conspiracy theories are dear to my heart and this seems like it is more of the same. And, of course, people trying to not pay their income tax is always tragically amusing. I think that if I worked for the IRS those cases would bring me the most joy.
 
I haven't seen Pan's Labyrinth, but I've intended to for a long time so I'll vote for that.
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I was tempted to vote for Pan's Labyrinth, but it's the only one from this list I've seen.  Still, I doubt any of these films (and I've heard of most of them) can top that masterpiece.
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Welcome to the strange and anarchistic world of the indie film!
Which is your favourite?
I think they're all a bit different and interesting. Big smile
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