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REVIEW | Love and Marriage: John Curran's "The Painted Veil"

"As if a woman ever loved a man for his virtue," scoffs Kitty Fane, heroine of W. Somerset Maugham's 1925 novel "The Painted Veil" - the line remains intact in the new film version. This touches on something raw, the insoluble dilemma that Kitty's heart is rent upon: the people we most esteem or res...

Sundance Unveils Native Forum Line up

The Sundance Institute revealed plans for the 2007 Sundance Film Festival's presentation of films by Native American and indigenous filmmakers in its Native Forum. The 2007 festival includes work from filmmakers in the United States, New Zealand and the Philippines. Titles screening in the Native Forum include: Taika Waititi's "Eagle Vs. Shark" (New Zealand), Sterlin Harjo's "Four Sheets to the Wind" (USA), "Miss Navajo" (USA) by Billy Luther, "Tuli" by Auracus Solito (Philippines), "Conversion" (USA) by Nanobah Becker, and "Move Me" (USA) by Jonathan Pulley. The Native Forum also has slated panels and other special events. For more informati...

36th International Film Festival Rotterdam Reveals Some Titles; Tributes

The 36th International Film Festival Rotterdam has added five new films to its Tiger Awards competition. The films are "La Marea" by Diego Martinez Vignatti (Belgium), "Fourteen" by Hirosue Hiromasa (Japan), "Die Unerzogenen" by Pia Marais (Germany), "Does It Hurt? The First Balkan Dogma" by Aneta L...

Jennifer Hudson to Receive Palm Springs Accolades

Golden Globe nominee Jennifer Hudson will be honored by the 18th Palm Springs International Film Festival with their Breakthrough Performance Award at a gala hosted by the event January 13. "Jennifer Hudson's performance in 'Dreamgirls' is phenomenal and is truly the breakthrough role of this year i...

indieWIRE INTERVIEW: Alison Chernick, Director of "Matthew Barney: No Restraint"

Director Alison Chernick's documentary "Matthew Barney: No Restraint" captures the famed American artist (best known on screen for his five-part "visual opera" the "Cremaster" series) as he creates his latest "Drawing Restraint 9" series. The film profiles the artist and includes an interview with p...

iW BOT | "Inland Empire" and "Volver" Keep Top Spots; "Live and Become" Opens Big

The independent/specialty-film business bottomed out last weekend with its weakest performance of 2006, based on the results of the indieWIRE Box Office Tracking Report (iWBOT), as 60 titles took in just $3.076 million. Things should pick up, however, as that traditionally slow weekend passes and ne...

indieWIRE Critics Poll 2006: coming soon...

Results from the first indieWIRE Critics Poll, surveying more than 100 U.S. film critics, will be announced this week on indieWIRE.com. The survey (edited by Dennis Lim and Anthony Kaufman) includes ranked votes in categories including: Best Film, Best Performance, Best Supporting Performance, Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best First Film, Best Documentary, Best Cinematography, and Best Undistributed Film. All films released theatrically in the United States during 2006 are eligible for all categories (except best undistributed film, which includes those films not shown commercially in theaters this year). indieWIRE will announce the result...

INDUSTRY MOVES: Zak Heading West at Technicolor

Technicolor's Christian Zak is heading to Los Angeles, from the company's New York office, to serve as VP, Digital Film Services in a new role overseeing the business development of feature film services targeting indie filmmakers, according to an announcement. Technicolor said in the announcement t...

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