In the New York Times, David Halbfinger looks at a spate of films from the American South, but while Cameron Crowe's latest "Elizabethtown" and the upcoming "Dukes of Hazzard" offer a take on the region, a group of Sundance '05 entries, in particular Phil Morrison's "Junebug", may offer a deeper perspective:
By contrast, he pointed to three other Sundance films set in the region - "Hustle & Flow" and "Forty Shades of Blue," both stories about music in Memphis, and Tim Kirkman's "Loggerheads," a film with gay themes set in North Carolina - as the kind of company he hoped to keep."It may be nothing, but it may be something," he said of the spate of specialty films from Southern filmmakers. "Maybe it's people wanting to speak for a multifaceted South, and we all wanted to take that on, and say, This is what it means, to me."
