IFP announced today that it will honor 2929 Entertainment's Todd Wagner & Mark Cuban with a Gotham Award at the 16th Annual Gotham Awards ceremony, November 29th in Manhattan. Through their Wagner/Cuban Companies the duo own 2929, Landmark Theaters, Magnolia Pictures, and HDNet Films, among other ho...
Read More »He has won over fans, directors and fellow actors alike and his latest film, Ken Loach's "The Wind that Shakes the Barley", won the Palme d'Or last month at the Festival de Cannes. The 30-year-old Irishman, recently named one of Hollywood's most valuable players, tells Sean O'Hagan that the fame gam...
Read More »Two of the more ambitious movies at this year's San Francisco International LGBT Film Festivalprove that the handy (perhaps overly so) critical phrase "sophomore slump" is never entirely true. If even true at all: Joao Pedro Rodrigues's "Two Drifters," a follow-up to his 2000 debut feature "O Fantas...
Read More »The jury had no trouble deciding that director Greg Spottiswood's Genie-nominated short "Noise" should take home the award for Best Canadian Short Film at the 2006 Canadian Film Centre's Worldwide Short Film Festival, which took place June 13th -18th in Toronto, Ontario. It was the Jackson-Triggs Aw...
Read More »Opening to a hometown crowd in New York last weekend, "Wordplay" -- the documentary about Will Shortz, New York Times crosswords editor -- left audiences spellbound. The IFC Films release, directed by Patrick Creadon, debuted in first place on this week's indieWIRE BOT which tracks independent/speci...
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