“New Moon” stands firmly on top with an astounding $72.7 million opening day. The horrifying state of American filmgoing:
As Richard Linklater’s Me and Orson Welles prepares its U.S. release (Thanksgiving weekend in select cities, and then nationwide soon after), there’s a growing number of interviews with Linklater about all kinds of topics (especially questions about his next projects). This weekend’s New York Times has a good article by ...
Last week's installment, #5, here. Follow the links at that post to access the other prior films in the series.Farber: "An adroit, scholarly example of sound storytelling that every Message Boy should be made to study as an example of how good you can get when you neither slant ...
The dynamic octogenarian duo who together have about 100 years of experience in the Biz review the film “Precious.” Some call it down-right depressing while others say its unbelievably uplifting—what do the good ole Geezers think? These two old-school movie veterans always have a fresh, funny and insightful perspective on ...
The dynamic octogenarian duo who together have about 100 years of experience in the Biz review the film “Men Who Stare at Goats.” Is it funny? How’s that all-star cast? And does darling Mr. Clooney deliver? See what the Geezers think. These two old-school movie veterans always have a fresh, ...
Klady's Friday estimate for New Moon is a few million lower than others, but still a new record. The number is about double the Friday for the first film. That said, the big question here will be the multiple. The box office is ...
September 6, 2008 ABC’s Good Morning America: Reel Geezers on Summer Flicks http://www.abcnews.go.com/video/playerindex?id=5740854%20 August 18, 2008 CNN ‘News To Me’ host Eric Lanford talks with two of America’s oldest movie critics. http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/bestoftv/2008/08/18/ntm.reel.geezers.cnn Jun 16, 2008 In their first YouTube film ...
Wes Anderson’s Fantastic Mr. Fox is great. Still only in limited release, Anderson’s sixth feature officially ends his frustrating creative downturn. His career came storming out of the gate, with the one-two-three punch of Bottle Rocket, Rushmore, and The Royal Tenenbaums. But then he stopped writing with Owen Wilson, and ...
With The Rescuers, it seemed that the new blood at the Disney Animation Studios had figured out what was what, and were all pumped up to do something even bigger and better, for with the great majority of the old guard retired or planning on doing so any moment, it ...
The film blogosphere is up in arms about the popular docs that got snubbed when the Oscar doc shortlist was unveiled. Missing from the ranks were docs like "It Might Get Loud," "Anvil!: The Story of Anvil," "Tyson," "Capitalism: A Love Story," "The September Issue," and "Collapse" have all been ...
Contributing Editor Brandon Harris has posted on his blog a new preview of Filmmaker and MoMA's annual "Best Film Not Playing at a Theater Near You" program, which unspools at the museum this week. Screening will be the five films that will be competing for the Gotham Award we sponsor ...
(apologies to those who now have to re-vote... puberty was misspelled... the irony was too much...)
Nov. 22 7:30 p.m. Egyptian Theater 6712 Hollywood Blvd. Los Angeles, CA Hosted by: L.A. Filmforum Catch more great, award-winning short films from this year’s Ann Arbor Film Festival. The theme for this program’s collection is personal visions of our fast-changing globalized world. The full list of the short ...
In the eleventh installment of Oscar Talk, In Contention‘s Kris Tapley and I have a go at last weekend’s Governors Awards, Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds, the documentary short list and Hal Holbrook’s performance in That Evening Sun. Over at Awards Daily, Sasha Stone assembles a bigger group to grapple with ...
This is the kind of article an editor puts up when there haven’t been new posts in days and needs some time to develop some big pieces. Yes, it’s filler time… That said, I just wanted to point out to regular or new readers that there are several adjunct ...
I find many things in the modern world scary, from Sarah Palin to Taylor Swift to Michael Bay. I actually had a fever-induced nightmare the other night in which I'd gone to the premiere of "Avatar" and instead found myself surrounded by screaming 7-year-olds at a screening of "Alvin and the Chipmunks: The ...
Today, innumerable thousands of shrieking tweens (and older counterparts who really should know better) will descend on the nation's multiplexes, baying for "New Moon" blood. The phenomenon isn't limited to theaters: Forks, Washington -- where Stephanie Meyer set her novel without ever visiting -- has seen tourism jump way up, ...
This, recently released on DVD, really is a must-see, a terrific piece of cinematic storytelling and a key early Hollywood work from the great Sirk. Dave Kehr gave it a nice write-up in the Times last Sunday, but I was so thoroughly impressed when I sat down to watch ...
Gary Hustwit, the director of HELVETICA, kindly visited my NYU class on Thursday to dispense his wisdom about self-distribution. This topic has a rising interest in the film world. But few people have as much real world experience as Hustwit. Next week, PBS’ Independent Lens will show his latest ...
"The German" is returning to Germany. Even if only for a couple of weeks. "Werner Herzog, one of the most important filmmakers of Auteur Cinema, will be the President of the International Jury at the Berlinale 2010," begins yesterday's announcement. At the moment, he's in Thessaloniki, where he'll ...
I am not among you, but would like to strongly advocate what you should be watching Sunday night at midnight on the CBC:
Based on the torrid rate of Fandango and MovieTickets.com advance online ticket sales, it’s not a huge surprise that The Twilight Saga: New Moon broke the midnight ticket sales record set last summer by Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince , reports the LAT: According to four people close to ...
