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Sicinski vs. D'Angelo

Submitted by Marya Murphy on Wed, 06/10/2009 - 4:35pm.
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After Michael Sicinski and Mike D'Angelo discussed Canary on Twitter and (rumor has it) the Cinemasters discussion group, many other critics and festivals began to express interest in the film--AFI Fest solicited Canary and Filmmaker Magazine is considering Alejandro as one of the 25 New Faces of Independent Film for their summer issue.

Sicinski on Canary

D'Angelo on Canary and Around the Bay

(Incidentally, D'Angelo recently relocated from Brooklyn to his childhood home of San Jose, so tell me if you see him around.)

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"This second feature by Alejandro Adams confirms him as an arresting talent. [Viewers] may be fascinated to the point of repeat viewings to sort out its myriad characters and half-buried clues."
-- Dennis Harvey, Variety


"Micro in budget, macro in ambition, accomplishment, and scope, Adams's slyly withholding film prompts multiple viewings--and deserves them."
-- Jim Ridley, Village Voice


"Wildly ambitious...an overwhelming and surprisingly fresh-feeling sense of dystopian dread."
-- Karina Longworth, Spout


"[CANARY is] terrific...very creepy and uncanny. It's quite an achievement."
-- Phillip Lopate


"Mysterious, elliptical, Bresson-like. [CANARY] is to biotech what PRIMER was to time-travel."
-- Richard von Busack, Metro


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