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:
It’s being reported that “The Twilight Saga: New Moon” may have made as much as $25 million last night from MIDNIGHT SHOWINGS. That beats “Harry Potter 5”‘s record, and is a good $7 million more than “The Dark Knight” took in. It’s all of a sudden shockingly possible (though still ...
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 ...
Last Tuesday night, STF hosted a sneak-preview of Mehran Tamadon’s BASSIDJI, fresh from its premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival. Although Tamadon was unable to join us from France, Hamid Rahmanian (director of THE GLASS HOUSE and coincidentally a doppelganger for Tamadon) had spent the previous few days ...
Once hailed as the man to shake up Hollywood, the maestro of dizzying, exquisitely choreographed action movies has returned to the far eastLet's say from the start that the life of a major league film-maker, with a thriving career in several corners of the globe, is not one to be ...
Greil Marcus on Frank Zappa: "Is there any facet of American culture Frank Zappa hasn't pissed on? If so, write and tell him what it is, and he'll get a beer out of the refrigerator and unzip." Forgive Marcus the present tense, as he made the observation, which I'm ...
If he weren’t so damn likable and talented, it would be tempting to begrudge Pedro Almodóvar his success. Almodóvar—always a gifted visual stylist—turned an artistic corner a decade ago with All About My Mother and its follow-up, Talk to Her. To the eye-popping color, self-conscious deconstruction of genre, and playful ...
Updating the private investigator film with September 11 shadings is not a terribly novel idea, but writer/director Noah Buschel isn’t an idea man. He likes feelings, atmosphere, actors, and emotion, and he originally said he was inspired to make The Missing Person because he was reading Raymond Chandler around the ...
The DocPoint Documentary Film Festival in Helsinki, Finland, has just announced that French filmmaker, Nicolas Philibert and Polish filmmaker, Marcel Lozinski, will be attending the festival as its honored guests and Master Filmmakers. The 9th edition of the festival will take place on the 26th through the 31st of ...
