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PARK CITY '06: Juan Carlos Rulfo: "I believe documentary filmmaking is the best thing"

Every day through the end of the Sundance Film Festival, including weekends, indieWIRE will be publishing two interviews with Sundance '06 competition filmmakers. Sixty filmmakers were given the opportunity to participate in an email interview and each was sent the same questions.

"Brokeback Mountain" & "Walk The Line" Win Best Picture Prizes at Golden Globes

In Los Angeles tonight, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association presented the annual Golden Globe awards honoring the best films of 2005. Ang Lee's "Brokeback Mountain" won the best motion picture - drama award while James Mangold's "Walk The Line" won the best motion picture musical or comedy prize...

"How Am I Supposed to Like It When Even Critics Don't Understand It!?!"

The Dead Zone: Eugene Jarecki's "Why We Fight"

Documentaries like Eugene Jarecki's Sundance Grand Jury Prize-winning "Why We Fight" put me in two frames of mind. On the one hand, its staid and steady by-the-PBS-book blend of talking heads, archival footage, and recent news clips makes one ponder the necessity of a theatrical release. On the oth...

The Year That Was: 2005

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PARK CITY '06: Patricia Foulkrod: "I learned to direct from having my heart broken and reshaped a fe

Every day through the end of the Sundance Film Festival, including weekends, indieWIRE will be publishing two interviews with Sundance '06 competition filmmakers. Sixty filmmakers were given the opportunity to participate in an email interview and each was sent the same questions.

The 'Other' Munich Film

As the Wall Street Journal reports, those who have seen "Munich" may find familiar the story of "an Israeli agent named Avner who faces a crisis of conscience after helping assassinate Palestinians believed to be behind the Munich slayings." While thats the plot summary of Steven Spielberg's new film "Munich," it is apparently also a description of the 20 year old cable movie "Sword of Gideon". According to WSJ, both movies are based on George Jonas's 1984 book, "Vengeance." Active Canadian indie producer Robert Lantos, who produced "Sword" told the Journal, "It's a testament to the cunning and foresight of Spielberg's publicity machine that ...

PARK CITY '06: Jocelyne Saab: "I was sipping my coffee and staring at the Nile. I was asking myself,

Every day through the end of the Sundance Film Festival, including weekends, indieWIRE will be publishing two interviews with Sundance '06 competition filmmakers. Sixty filmmakers were given the opportunity to participate in an email interview and each was sent the same questions.