Critic Karina Longworth continues her coverage of Doc/Fest in Sheffield with reviews of music docs The Beat is the Law Part One and Taqwacore: The Birth of Punk Islam. Anyone coming into the Sheffield music scene primer The Beat is the …
2ND UPDATE: We have our winners. Thanks, all!UPDATE: To win a digital copy of Objectified, answer the question below and email editor.filmmakermagazine AT gmail.com. Almost three years ago I decided to check out what seemed to be an obscure little documentary about graphic design at SXSW and was surprised ...
As the Oscar race starts to come into focus, Kris Tapley of In Contention and I continue our weekly Oscar Talk. This week we both approve of Oscar co-hosts Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin, agree that Jeff Bridges has a shot …
Of course, not being on this list does not mean, the film is not good-looking. The only criteria here was that I harvested the suggestions from my twitter and facebook feeds, and I knew of the movie (*not actually that I saw the movie).I needed this list and really ...
Reading my NYTimes today - in print, slowly - I kept bumping into some interesting articles with a lot of relevance for the film industry. Everyone in the film biz knows that videogames are increasingly beating cinema for dollars, that's nothing new. But three articles in today's Times sum up ...
Nov. 9 8:30 p.m. REDCAT Theater 631 W. 2nd St. Los Angeles, CA Hosted by: REDCAT Village Voice film critic and film historian J. Hoberman is the world’s foremost authority on the 1963 underground film classic Flaming Creatures, directed by Jack Smith. Preceding a screening of the film, Hoberman ...
Friday numbers suggest “Precious” is almost certain to be joining this list, and the fact that it’s doing so on 18 screens as opposed to the 1-8 screens of the films listed below is truly amazing: (thank you, Box Office Mojo.)
Elf opened on November 7, 2003 to $8.96m and grossed $31.3m for the 3-day... and $173 million for the run. Does this mean that Disney's A Christmas Carol will match that remarkable run? No. But we don't really know. $150 million domestic off of ...
Critic Karina Longworth reports on the Cinema Eye nominations from the Doc/Fest in Sheffield, England: Karaoke has become the ubiquitous after-hours activity on the North American festival circuit, but at Doc/Fest in Sheffield, England, they roll differently. The non-fiction film festival …
Selections from the November/December 2009 issue of Film Comment have been posted along with a few online exclusives, among them, the full uncut version of Alexander Horwath's interview with Michael Haneke: "It took several major awards at Cannes, for The Piano Teacher (01), Caché (05), and now The ...
By Simon AbramsSPOILER WARNING IN EFFECTRegardless of how you feel about the film itself, the sticking point for The Box—mad scientist Richard Kelly’s latest oddity—is how well it succeeds as Kelly’s version of a mainstream, commercially viable bit of speculative fiction. Southland Tales, Kelly’s unjustly maligned sophomore experiment, was both ...
“That’s the problem with calling something ‘Lunchfilm.’ You always get an afternoon slot.” That was Lunchfilm curator Mike Plante quipping before his 1:00 p.m. screening on Nov. 2 at the 2009 AFI Film Festival in Hollywood. Hell, I’m a matinee kind of guy so I happened to be thrilled, ...
I think it might be really fun to bring one of these Disney reviews in under 2000 words again, so I'm going to skip the history lesson this time, except to reiterate what happened to the Disney Studios in the post-war '40s: Walt Disney was inattentive, they were running out ...
I can hear you, can you hear me?—R.E.M., Sitting Still R.E.M. is the absolute seminal band for me; their albums are the soundtrack of my life. I was a thriteen year-old heavy metal-loving dork living in working class Michigan in 1984 when, on Easter vacation in Toronto, I stumbled upon ...
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No one is going to throw a pity party for Nic Cage, the $20-million movie star who not only has made more bad movies than Nicole Kidman ("National Treasure: Book of Secrets," "Bangkok Dangerous," "Knowing," "Next" and "Ghost Rider," just to name a few recent ones), but who has ...
There is a certain joy in a week like this. Mortensen, Herzog, Harrelson, Ben Foster, Amy Gilliam, and Eva Mendes were just some of the very talented group I got to spend time with and chat. The only problem with that is, I don't get to spend ...
It's a pretty interesting week for theatrical releases, and we'll get to those in a moment, but it's an outstanding week for Robert Ryan fans. The Chicago Reader presents a recently discovered letter Ryan probably wrote in the early 50s is addressed to his children and describes his ...
I’m traveling this weekend so I’ve put up the link to my Times column a bit early. I’m eager to hear your thoughts on this interesting collection from Sony, which includes seven Columbia features — two of them directed by Fuller (”The Crimson Kimono” and “Underworld USA”) ...
(This is the continuation and penultimate chapter of the Douglas Adams style-trilogy of posts I started more than a month ago. Pt. 1 is here; Pt. 2 is here. Just pretend those weeks never happened. I’ve been trying to do the same.) I hadn’t had the best luck when ...
Take me seriously! Many reviews of The Box will start out like: “After the disastrous reception that greeted Southland Tales, director Richard Kelly…” This opening apologia acknowledges the massive blunder that was Southland (though there are still a handful of defenders), and opens up wiggle room to reinstate Kelly as ...
Movie City News’ Gurus o’ Gold are back and I’m thrilled to once again join the party. In the words of MCN, we’re offering a weekly take on the Hollywood horse race. Here’s my picks for the week, with the full chart at Movie City News. BEST PICTURE 1. The ...
