Kitana Kiki Rodriguez

Mya Taylor

Karren Karagulian

Mickey O'Hagan

Alla Tumanian

James Ransone

Luiza Nersisyan

Arsen Grigoryan

Ian Edwards

Scott Krinsky

Clu Gulager

Ana Foxxx

Chelcie Lynn

Shih-Ching Tsou

Josh Sussman

Julie Cummings

Jason Stuart

Richard-Lael Lillard

Angelique Banks

Andrew D. Scoggins

Genesis Green

Shanyce Nivaye

Linda Macon

Francis Lola

Alfred Lopez

Katrina Remero

Roxana Guirola

Chris Bergoch

Khris Dickerson

Davida Strothers

Melissa Trader

Anni Weisband

Krishne Chelliah

Darren Dean

Graham Mackie

Jonathan Stromberg

Jim Johnson

Henry Todd

Derek Leuty

Melissa Dingman

Justin Montez

Julie Malcolm

Paula Van

Evan Gilchrest

Sarah Carey

Kymber Allen

Rae L. Siskind

Bebe Maya

Holly Jane Love

Adam Wood

Mia Hurley

Scott Lyons

Katja Kassin

David Z. Stamp

John Gulager

Tereza Nelson

Ceda Margaryan

Gayane Avaryan

Aida Morales

James Williams

Stu Hopkins

Lazano Torres

Bianca Copeland

Tess Hunt

Ralph Villalobos

Melanie Booth

Helene Vitagliano

August Stout

Matthew Olson

Jory Goodman

Justin Premo

June Rosewood

Jeremy Grody

Sean Baker

Radium Cheung

Karrie Cox

Kevin Chinoy

Jay Duplass

Francesca Silvestri

Marcus Cox

Mark Duplass

Mel Eslyn

Matthew Hearon-Smith

Luke Cahill

Trevor Jolly

Scott Szabo

Matthew Manselle

Brian Straub

Augusta Quirk

Irin Strauss

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Tangerine

Through Films

Duplass Brothers Productions

United States of America

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taxi

prostitute

transsexuality

taxi driver

laundromat

singer

hollywood

los angeles, california

ex-con

lgbt

black lgbt

christmas

trans woman

transsexual prostitute

shot on iphone

christmas eve

lgbt interest

Reno

**On the Christmas eve in the LA streets.**

Just one day event based theme and brilliantly made film. This film was made using iPhone 5s and this is not some film school project. The quality was really top notch, with great performances by all who involved in. I have never seen such perfectly rendered transgender story. I mean no offense, but it looked so real. Hats off to the director, writer and the actors.

Last year, there were some talks about this film's chances at the Oscars, but in the end it did not make. So after that I kind of lost interest in it, but now I had an opportunity to watch and I liked it very much. How a simple story and its simple characters developed were the highlights. You can't predict this stuff, because you won't know what comes after the each twist.

Most of the film takes place on the evening time, so that colour of the sky is what the title represents. I don't think anybody would dislike this film. It was slow, but short and sweet. One of the best films from the 2015. You much choose this to watch for its uniqueness in the filmmaking and the storytelling. In addition to that, it also entertains, so there's your reason to go for it.

_7/10_

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So it was all filmed on my favourite iPhone - the 5S. I had one until only recently when the failing battery finally forced me onto the 12 mini. Aside from that impressive technical feat, though, this really isn't anything special. "Sin-Dee" (Kitana Kiki Rodriguez) gets out of jail after a 28 day stint for possession, only to find that the guy she took the fall for - her boyfriend "Chester" (James Ransone) has been fooling around with "Dinah" (Mickey O'Hagan). Livid, she sets off with her best friend "Alexandra" (Mya Taylor) to find this woman and to confront her beau with his treachery. Meantime, cabbie "Razmik" (Karren Karagulian) breaks up that narrative with some quite entertaining vignettes with his passengers. "Mia", a man named after a bird, a couple who have been over-indulging in pre-Christmas booze - and leave him a smelly, unwanted gift - all whilst he cruises for some transvestite action in an alleyway. The stories gradually merge together as it turns out the married Armenian driver has the hots for "Sin-Dee" and it all comes to an head in a donut shop with his wife, child, mother-in-law as well! The handheld photography is intimate, presenting us with a fly on the wall style documentary around half a dozen not especially nice or interesting people going about their lives. It is made largely on the move, there is rarely a let up as the story fluidly moves along - but that story is frankly pretty lame. "Sin-Dee" drags "Dinah" around downtown LA in her bare feet at will; nobody intervenes - even when she drags her onto a bus! The dialogue is weak and angry, the characters selfish and I found that after about half an hour I just couldn't really care less about any of them. Is it supposed to be about friendship? They all appear to be as ready to betray each other as to get up in the morning. Sean Baker does create a film here that is intense, but there is nothing to hook the audience. If this were documentary on transvestite hookers in LA, then it would show nobody in anything like a sympathetic light and adding dialogue to that doesn't change that basic sentiment. As an example of how film-making is going to change profoundly with the advent of small, hand-held, filming technologies this is a great example of a flexible and portable technique. As a story about people, it is pretty miserable.

Filming on consistently overpriced hardware that is a manifest of chokepoint capitalism (term coined by Cory Doctorow) is not enough make great cinema.

Tangerine( 2015)

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Written by Reno on Fri Oct 14 2016

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