Sean Dunne's new documentary “Oxyana” was awarded a Special Jury Prize at the last Tribeca Film Festival, and it's easy to see why. Capitalizing on the current rage over oddball slice-of-life docs (see “The Queen of Versailles,”etc.), Dunne's straightforward portrait of a desolate West Virginia mining town ravaged by prescription drug abuse (Oceana, West Virginia, nicknamed “Oxyana” because of its Oxycontin problem) hits the right notes to ensure big indie success. He chooses a provocative topic, adeptly balances

I tried really really hard to get through Steven Soderbergh's "state of cinema" address which he gave at the San Francisco Film Festival a couple of days ago. I figured, there's an American filmmaker who portrays himself an intellectual, and has made cerebral films in the past, and now he's giving an address about cinema and maybe it's going to grab me and elevate the senses. So I read on, and pretty soon ran

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During the 2013 edition of the Tribeca Film Festival which [...]

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