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"Affliction" Tops Spirit Award Nominations; "Monster," "Art," and "Sex" Also Nab Numerous Nods
"Sex" Also Nab Numerous Nods
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Amsterdam Doc Fest Strong in Euro-Product, Awards "Photographer"
Amsterdam Doc Fest Strong in Euro-Product, Awards"Photographer"
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"Happiness" Tops indieWIRE Readers Survey of Top Films of '98
by Eugene HernandezTodd Solondz' critically acclaimed and controversial feature film,"Happiness," was selected as the top film of 1998 in a survey ofindieWIRE readers. Over sixty indieWIRE readers -- a cross section offilmmakers, executives, journalists, and other members of the indiecommunity -- were polled for the survey which asked participants toselect the top films of the year. Six movies received a majority ofreader's votes."Happiness" is Solondz' follow-up to the Sundance Grand Jury Prizewinning feature, "Welcome to the Dollhouse." Originally slated torelease the film October Films dropped the movie after it screened at the 1998Cann...
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The Year in Film -- A Look at Ten of the Best
by Danny LorberArt and ingenuity were admirably reached for by filmmakers in both theindie and studio ranks in '98, maybe even more ardently than in recentyears. But if ingenuity was displayed often, art was pretty rare. Therewere a lot of good films this year, but not too many great ones. Thatsaid, timely and curious themes and trends were apparent in the moviesthat we saw this year (World War II, media allegories, childmolestation, political scandals and sophomoric humor) and moreindividual movies spawned national debate than in any year in recentmemory. In this day and age, when the impact that movies can have is sooften diffused by the...
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Examine Your Shorts, Part II: Aspen, Academia, and Alternatives
Examine Your Shorts, Part II: Aspen, Academia, andAlternatives
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Examine Your Shorts, Part I: Not All Fests Are Created Equal
Examine Your Shorts, Part I: Not All Fests Are CreatedEqual
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The Play Is Not the Thing: Anthony Drazan directs "Hurlyburly"
The Play Is Not the Thing: Anthony Drazan directs"Hurlyburly"
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BIZ Briefs for the week of 01/04/99
Compiled by Mark Rabinowitz, Anthony Kaufman, Maya Churi, and Eugene Hernandez
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Fox Lorber Owns iW Favorites, Sundance Films, Other Flicks
by Anthony KaufmanNoted video distributor Fox Lorber is set to release an array ofdomestic festival favorites and foreign films this year. Among thelist are a handful of movies that made indieWIRE's list of favoriteunaquired films of 1998.Theatrical rights to three films from the list have in fact beennabbed by Fox Lorber, representatives confirmed recently: Mark Daniels'"Melvin Van Peebles' Classified X," Tsai Ming-liang's "The Hole" andHal Hartley's "Book of Life." The latter two were just grabbed as partof a collection of end-of-the-millennium films called "2000 Seen By."Other films in the recently purchased package include Alain Berlin...
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