Patrick Stettner's "The Night Listener" has been added to the lineup of the 2006 Berlinale as a special surprise screening. The film, based on Armistead Maupin's novel, debuted last month at the Sundance Film Festival and stars Robin Williams, Tony Collette, Rory Culkin, Bobby Cannavale, Joe Morton and Sandra Oh (the director and the author are expected to travel to Berlin for the film's European premiere on February 12th. Miramax acquired North American rights to the movie shortly after its debut. Heading into Berlin's European Film Market, the film's sales company, Fortissimo Films said Wednesday that it is racking up sizable sales on the t...
Read More »The Northwest Film Center is set to kick off the 29th Portland International Film Festival this Friday, February 10. A slate of 150 films is planned for the festival, including four screening on opening night. The festival, which bills itself as Oregon's biggest film event of the year, runs through ...
Read More »Nineteen new films will vie for prizes at the 2006 Berlinale -- the Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin -- beginning Thursday in the German capital. The 56th Berlin International Film Festival will present a total of 26 films in its competition section, with higher profile U.S. films screening out...
Read More »A postmodernist rumination on the challenge of adapting a literary classic to the screen proved the perfect cinematic counterprogramming for Super Bowl weekend, as Michael Winterbottom's "Tristram Shandy" overwhelmingly topped the indieWIRE Box Office Tracker (iWBOT) for the second straight week. iW...
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