REVIEW: Hopelessly Romantic; Jaglom Takes on that "Festival in Cannes"
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Read More »DAILY NEWS: Santa Barbara Winners; New InDigEnt Projectwith articles by Matthew Ross and Brian Brooks/indieWIRE>> Santa Barbara Winners; New InDigEnt Project(indieWIRE/03.05.02) -- A tribute to Sean Penn and awards closed the 17thAnnual Santa Barbara International Film Festival with nods for best U.S.and foreign feature presented to Tony Shalhoub's "Made Up" and Wang Chao's "Orpgan of Anyang." Matt Mafredi and Phil Hay's "Bug" won the Audience Choice Award for Best Feature and "Shanghai Ghetto" by Dana Janklowicz-Mann and Amir Mann took the Audience Award for Best Documentary.Henry Jaglom's "Festival in Cannes" opened the five-day event whi...
Read More »DAILY NEWS: French Cesar Winners; WGA Awards and "Telling Nicholas"with articles by Eugene Hernandez and Brian Brooks/indieWIRE>> "Amelie" and "Read My Lips" Top Cesar Awards(indieWIRE: 03.04.02) -- French films were in the spotlight over the weekend at the annual Cesar Awards, the country's prizes for the best movies of the year.Jean Pierre-Jeunet's "Amelie," a runaway success at the box-office inFrance, nabbed four Cesar prizes. It was honored with the award for bestfilm, best director (for Jenuet), best art direction (for Aline Bonetto)and best music (for Yann Tiersen)."Read My Lips," directed by Jacques Audiard, won a number of top Cesar...
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Read More »DAILY NEWS: Phelps' Hate in NYC; and ContentFilm Pactwith articles by Eugene Hernandez, Matthew Ross and Brian Brooks/indieWIRE>> Homophobic Minister Fred Phelps to Picket NY Underground Festival; Hateful Preacher Denounces Downtown Event as "Fag Propaganda"(indieWIRE: 03.01.02) -- Next week's New York Underground Film Festival(NYUFF) will have an unlikely visitor, infamous homophobic minister FredPhelps who is condemning the event as "fag propaganda." The news of Phelp'sintention to picket the festival will end up being a major PR hit for allinvolved: the festival, Phelps, and a new documentary about the minister --a movie that isn't even p...
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Read More »DAILY NEWS: Soderbergh Anniversary; Remaking Oscar in L.A.; Editing Awards and InDigEnt Dealwith articles by Eugene Hernandez and Brian Brooks/indieWIRE>> New Soderbergh Film Moved to August; Miramax to Mark "sex, lies" Anniversary(indieWIRE/02.28.02) -- Miramax will mark the 13th anniversary of thesymbolic start of the modern American independent film movement with therelease of Steven Soderbergh's latest film, "Full Frontal." The picture ismoving from what had been previously scheduled as a March release to August2nd, the thirteenth anniversary of the debut of Soderbergh's "sex, lies andvideotape.""We were set to come out in March and then...
Read More »DAILY NEWS: Myriad Backs Zoetrope Pix; Floating Film Festwith articles by Eugene Hernandez and Brian Brooks/indieWIRE>> Myriad Signs to Finance Five Zoetrope Films(indieWIRE: 02.27.02) -- Myriad Pictures has announced a pact to financefive new features by Francis Ford Coppola's American Zoetrope. Among the new movies is author Russell Banks' screen adaptation of Jack Kerouac's novel "On The Road." It will be directed by Joel Schumacher.Among the other movies in the deal are "Kinsey," a biopic about humansexuality scientist Alfred Kinsey. Bill Condon ("God's and Monsters") is set to direct the movie from his own script. Finally, "My Dark Plac...
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