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Watch MAN Online

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By Karina Longworth posted 1 year ago
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When I was on the Shorts jury at CineVegas last summer, we gave the top prize to Man, Myna Joseph’s short, tense drama about two adolescent sisters whose bond is tested when one goes on an ill-advised internet date. Although unfortunately it’s not embeddable, New York Magazine has posted the 15 minute film (which also played at Sundance, SXSW and New Directors/New Films) online. You can watch it in two parts on Vulture.

Sonic Youth on Juno Soundtrack

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By Karina Longworth posted 1 year ago
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The Playlist passes along word that Sonic Youth’s cover of The Carpenters’ “Superstar” has made it onto the Juno soundtrack album. The song plays a key role in my favorite part of the film, the friendship between Ellen Page’s pregnant teen and Jason Bateman’s 30-something would-be adoptive father, through which Juno learns perhaps the most important lesson of being a wise-beyond-your-years teenage girl: you can only be precocious and adorable and interested in some older dude’s past life as a minor rock star for so long before said older dude starts getting That Look in his eyes every time you come ’round.

Still, it seems a *little* weird that a song that was originally recorded for a compilation disc would now end up on another compilation disc. Or maybe it doesn’t. I don’t know. The whole point of this post was to have an excuse to embed Dave Markey’s video for the song, which I love, and have loved since I was Juno’s age.