Over in Slate Charles Taylor writes about everything that's wrong with indie film in a rave review of the film Kwik Stop.

"Except for a few remaining truly independent distributors, the major studios' specialty divisions—the arm that releases foreign films and what has been dubbed the "mid-size" movie (i.e., Lost in Translation, Sideways, et al.)—now virtually determine what audiences see of what we still think of as American independent movies. In other words, the studios nearly control the system that was supposed to represent an alternative to them. If an American indie movie doesn't have a name filmmaker or stars who have taken a smaller paycheck to work on it, if it doesn't create a buzz at Sundance (or is rejected by Sundance), its chances of getting a distribution deal are pretty much dead."

Oft repeated points (which doesn't mean they're not good ones), but you can't help wondering if Charles is just really upset this favorite of his never made it very far.