Quiet City
United States
2007
78 Min
Color
1.78:1
English
Director
Aaron Katz
Aaron Katz was born in Portland, OR and studied film at the North Carolina School of the Arts. After graduating, he and two friends drove a ’63 Chevy Nova to Portland to make his first feature, Dance Party, USA. His second feature, Quiet City, premiered at SXSW 2007 and was nominated for the John Cassavetes Award at the Independent Spirit Awards. Currently Aaron lives in Pittsburgh. –SXSW
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Judicial Joe
22Nov12
Good mumblecore makes you smell the roses. Bad mumblecore does the same thing, but makes you ask "So what?". This leans towards the latter sadly.
Peter
1Apr12
Perhaps miscast in its association with the Mumblecore movement, the film may be more appropriately labeled as Contemporary Contempletive Cinema. Highly naturalistic in its characterizations and nearly real-time narrative progress, the film effectively invites the viewer into the delicate sphere inhabited by the principal characters (not unlike Bradley Rust Gray's Exploding Girl). Erin Fisher owned me for the duration of the toy crane scene...
Sean
29Oct11
A different kind of romance movie, Katz does a nice job of making you feel like you are eavesdropping on the love interests conversations. my only problem is with the dialogue, way to much use of the word "like" its almost used in every sentence every second word. Katz has a nice eye for direction, good job.
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SXSW 2010: "Cold Weather"
By David Hudson on March 15, 2010
Just a few weeks ago, I noted that one of the running topics of discussion coming out of the Berlinale is the turn toward — and in the case
Movie Poster of the Week: "Cold Weather"
By Adrian Curry on March 5, 2010
An exclusive at The Auteurs, this is the superb new poster for the long-awaited new Aaron Katz feature which will have its world premiere at
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Mumblecore Version of <i>Before Sunrise</i>
By Jazzaloha on January 4, 2011
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If the Before Sunrise/Sunset films are independent versions of a Hollywood romantic comedy, then Quiet City is the independent version of Before Sunrise/Sunset. The… read review
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Quiet City (2007): a Romance?
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