Down South, Singing the Indie Blues
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Twenty-seven years and 16 features after they began their mutual career, John Sayles and Maggie Renzi are still making movies.
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Battered and deep-fried wasn't enough for "A Love Song for Bobby Long." So smothered in self-conscious Southern gothic, the film feels as if it's been drowned in gravy without even the benefit of a biscuit on the side to sop it all up.
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Passages from a folk legendÂs latest album, ÂModern Times,Â echo a 19th-century ConfederateÂs verses.
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Indie distributor Magnolia  Pictures is looking to make some quick cash on two indie  comedies, releasing them nearly simultaneously on cable and in  theaters and DVD stores.
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As a child, Oscar Torres fled the civil war in his homeland. Now he has brought his story home as a new film, "Innocent Voices," opened before enthusiastic crowds in the nation's capital.
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An indie darling and his longtime collaborators attempt a peculiar, watery, large-budget action film.
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Robert Plantâs worldly hard rock, Alison Kraussâs limpid update of rural traditions and T Bone Burnettâs rangy Texas twang, all on one album.
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Sweet is probably the last word you'd expect to use in describing a film about an aging black man who chains a young white woman to a radiator to cure her of her demons. In the rural South, of all places.
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The performers are not stars, but the price is competitive.
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By Eric R. Danton, The Hartford Courant, Conn.  Feb. 15--These are inspirational times for indie-rock bands, who are combining grass-roots efforts with technology to get their music heard without help from record labels.
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ItÂs not often that the background score of a film makes a lasting impact on music listeners of this country.
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A new-music group spreads its roots while keeping its indie-band identity.
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Older amateur rockers are creating original albums as a viable sideline gig.
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Ross McElwee's reflective, wise, often hilarious documentary examines the tobacco industry in his native state of North Carolina.
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At a time when much of the mainstream music business is desperately trying to connect with consumers and sell albums, the bluegrass music community has seen its fortunes rise.
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The hit road comedy "Little Miss  Sunshine" and the acclaimed drugs drama "Half Nelson" led the  list of contenders on Tuesday for the Independent Spirit  Awards, the American art-house world's version of the Oscars.
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A new documentary sets Toots Shorâs rise and long, sad decline against the backdrop of 20th-century American social history.