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An intimate club nestled away on a busy Hollywood street, Largo has garnered a reputation among performers and fans alike as a place where what’s on stage truly matters.  This respect for the artists and their work carries over in this film by club owner Mark Flanagan and filmmaker Andrew van Baal. Circumventing flashy MTV-style lensing or editing, Largo places its focus squarely on the musicians and comedians onstage—no self-important interviews or backstage antics here —allowing the performances to truly shine through.  Featuring: Aimee Mann, Andrew Bird, Fiona Apple, Grant-Lee Phillips, Patton Oswalt, Sarah Silverman, Zach Galifianakis, Fred Armisen and more. Directed by Mark Flanagan and Andrew van Baal, 87 min.

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Dennis Lambert was one of the most successful and diverse songwriter/producers of the ‘70s and ‘80s, with hits like “Ain’t No Woman Like The One I’ve Got”, “Rhinestone Cowboy”, “Don’t Pull Your Love”, “Baby Come Back”, “One Tin Soldier” and “Nightshift”. He had chart-toppers in almost every genre of music — at one point four of his songs were simultaneously on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, a feat previously accomplished only by The Beatles. That was then. Today, he’s a 60-year-old family man selling real estate in Florida. But it turns out his obscure 1972 solo album is huge… in the Philippines. A Filipino concert promoter has been begging Dennis to tour for decades, and in  2007 (thirty-five years after the release of his album) he finally agreed. Directed by Jody Lambert,83 min.

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In response to the ceaselessness of the contemporary media deluge, many are merely subsumed. Some daring artists find ways to surf the transmitted waves and carve out spaces of connection and tranquility within the barrage in order to send out messages of hope. Hold Me Now continues Michael Robinson’s project of exploring the poetics of loss and the dangers of mediated experience: daring to find emotion in the cold world of pop songs and televisual melodrama, he squeezes sentimentality from the mundane, prompting an agonizing response between pain and laughter. Equally maudlin, Eli Marias and Amos Natkin’s Daddy—a bathetic scene of holiday domesticity recalling the familial nightmares of Luther Price—features an answering machine-bound dead beat dad baring his soul on a cold Christmas morning. Drawing on similar sources of pop-cultural pabulum Fred Worden’s When World’s Collude plays like a structural re-edit of Baywatch, complete with jet skiing blondes, hi-speed chases and all kinds of stuff exploding. Finally, David Gatten and Jessie Stead’s sublimely intermittent epic Today! plays as episodes in an open-ended and wide-eyed adventure series, accumulating meaning even as it becomes increasingly mysterious. Just added: a reprise screening of Luther Price’s nature documentary/tv melodrama mash-up The Mongrel Sister! [Steve Polta]