The Movie Filter by Jeff Roedel – Down ‘Submarine’

Borrowing influences from the French New Wave and more modern touchstones like Wes Anderson’s Rushmore, Noah Baumbach’s The Squid and the Whale, and Miguel Arteta’s Youth in Revolt, Submarine is the long-awaited English response, a dark young adult twist on Charlie Brown, an autumnal, impossibly somber, self-reflective and wistful look at youth drowning in the depths of crises both real and perceived. This dry-humored coming-of-age drama is available now on DVD. Read more…