As a big fan of both “Squid and the Whale” and “Margot at the Wedding,” I was a little offput when I heard Ben Stiller - who I’ve never particularly cared for - would be the lead in Noah Baumbach’s newest film, “Greenberg.” Well, the trailer came out today, and ...
As the search for a new IFP executive director continues, indie film producer Joana Vicente (who with her husband Jason Kliot have made independent movies with their labels, Open City Films, Blow Up Pictures and HDNet Films) has been named the interim head of the non-profit organization according to a ...
I'm doing an in-depth version of my workshop on "Building Big Audiences and Generating Revenue in the Digital Age" next Tuesday evening, 12.1.09, at BAVC in San Francisco. There are just five spots left (and the registration rate goes up on Saturday at midnight... if any seats remain.)We'll explore ...
"The Twilight Saga: New Moon" has been exploding all sorts of box office records -- my colleague, Ben Fritz, says, for example, that it is the least expensive movie ever to open to more than $200 million worldwide. But the most important record that it's on track to break is one that might ...
By Aaron CutlerAndrew Sarris wrote of Elia Kazan in The American Cinema that “his career as a whole reflects an unending struggle between a stable camera and a jittery one.” Historically that’s more or less been the rap on Kazan—a highly-acclaimed filmmaker with many strong titles, but one whose work ...
It struck me today that For Memories’ Sake will probably be the last movie I’m involved with that uses videotape. Ashley began shooting the documentary with the venerable DVX-100 in 2006 and, for consistency’s sake, we stuck with that camera through production. All the new projects that I have on ...
If you haven’t seen it yet, you now have a much easier chance to catch up with Gary Hustwit’s Objectified, which makes its television debut on PBS’ Independent Lens tonight (11/24). I wrote this about the film in May, when it opened at the IFC Center for a theatrical run: ...
She plays the “young girl” in Noah Baumbach’s new film Greenberg, but I can’t help but watch this new trailer and feel like lovely/talented Hannah Takes the Stairs and Baghead co-star Greta Gerwig’s all-grown-up! It’s also an odd thing to feel, because she’s always been so mature in her indie ...
Soon after the 1984 takeover of Walt Disney Productions, when the future of the company's feature animation division was still in considerable doubt, Roy E. Disney and Jeffrey Katzenberg nevertheless had enough faith that they would be able to pull things out that they concocted a truly extraordinary plan for ...
It’s been rumored for months, but Nintendo officially announced that its VOD platform on the Wii console has launched in Japan over the weekend. The programming so far trends along family fare. Variety has a little more: Service, called Wii no Ma (Wii’s Room), has 120 titles at launch, including ...
Ask me my favorite Hitchcock film and I'll shoot you back the obvious answer: Vertigo, the director's cinematic and fetishistic embodiment of romantic obsession. Ask me the film I'd be most likely to pop into my DVD player and re-watch for fun and I've another obvious answer: North by Northwest, ...
Hammer Glamour cover girl Madeline Smith Hammer horror films were an essential part of my childhood and one of my favorite things about Hammer films was the glamourous female stars. While growing up I thought that the women in Hammer movies were incredibly beautiful and I still do. Big hair ...
Richard Linklater’s Me And Orson Welles (or, MAOW) opens this Thanksgiving weekend in select cities. It will expand nationwide through December. The film (which, full disclosure, Cinetic has been involved with since its inception) premiered at the 2008 Toronto Film Festival, and waiting until the holiday season 2009 makes a ...
Twelve years after his groundbreaking Apollo performance, 10 years after the TAMI Show, the Godfather of Soul continues to do it to death in 1974, headlining the Zaire '74 Music Festival, conceived as an adjunct to the "Rumble In The Jungle" Ali-Foreman rematch in that country. The fight had ...
Updated. "Syndromes and a Century by Apichatpong Weerasethakul heads the tally of more than 50 films chosen as the best of the 2000s by TIFF Cinematheque, the year-round screening program of the Toronto International Film Festival," reads yesterday's release. "Joe" has another film in the top ten, too, ...
The war for dominance in American animation between Don Bluth and the Walt Disney Company had gotten a bit more intense with their dueling mouse movies in 1986, but that had nothing on the pissing match the two studios engaged in late in 1988. Both companies released a new ...
Is the sincere yet ultimately bathetic movie that is "Precious" really going to become the new flashpoint for talking about Race in America? We were totally due for a paradigm shift -- Spike Lee's had his 20 years -- but... this? It's not just all the arguments about whether or ...
Nov. 28 10:00 p.m. AceArtInc. 290 McDermot Avenue (2nd floor) Winnipeg, MB, Canada Hosted by: AceArtInc. Come see the Winnipeg premiere of Guy Maddin’s latest film The Little White Cloud That Cried at the AceArtInc. gallery as part of their Winter Warmer annual members show. I can’t find much ...
The UK has officially caught Stephenie Meyer fever after The Twilight Saga: New Moon's strident opening weekend, and the Coens' A Serious Man deals another little cut to star prestigeThe winnerWhen the original Twilight movie arrived in the UK last December, it opened with a decent £2.51m – not a ...
The sequel to 2008's Twilight is one of those movies where you're not exactly sure even what the title is. The ad campaign clearly describes it as The Twilight Saga: New Moon, which is probably the "right" title, despite being clumsy and stupid; the opening of the film merely ...
I'm sure most of you noticed that friend and fellow blogger Dennis Cozzalio's site, Sergio Leone and the Infield Fly Rule, recently celebrated its fifth anniversary. Now Dennis turns the thanks back at us in a lengthy post timed to Turkey Week. Yours truly is mentioned within. To answer your ...
"the $99 Insignia model during Best Buy’s Black Friday sale will be enhanced with BD Live and Netflix streaming." "Also at Walmart, there are $148 Web-enabled Sony and Samsung Blu-ray players" Video Business reports it. So are we excited about it? Are these blu-ray players now ...
