The Nantucket Film Festival has added Jerry Seinfeld and Colin Quinn to this year's All-Star Comedy Roundtable presented by Ben Stiller, with Seth Meyers hosting and Aziz Ansari also participating.
Read More »John Lasseter, Chief Creative Officer of Walt Disney and Pixar Animation Studios, will receive the 2011 Extraordinary Contribution to Filmmaking Award at the 2011 Austin Film Festival. Past winners include Danny Boyle and the late Sydney Pollack.
Read More »This morning, NBC's "The Today Show" featured an interview with Buck Brannaman, the subject of Cindy Meehl's "Buck," a documentary that nabbed the 2011 Audience Award at Sundance. Ever the charmer, Brannaman spoke about his mystical way with horses, their therapeutic healing qualities and his status...
Read More »This ain't no dream. David Lynch's cult, mind-fuck classic "Mulholland Drive" has inspired Lynch to open a Parisian nightclub, Club Silencio, inspired by a key location in arguably the most bracing scene from the film.
Read More »Capitalizing on the Webby Awards' five-word speech acceptance rule, Dan Savage, creator of the "It Gets Better Project," gave comedian Tracy Morgan a piece of his mind.
Read More »Werner Herzog has lent his voice to Adam Mansbach and Ricardo Cortés' infamous children's book "Go the F**k to Sleep." His reading will debut tonight at the New York Public Library, followed by a conversation about children's sleep deprivation and insomnia between M...
Read More »The 2011 Cannes Film Festival kicked off a little over a month ago, and its reputation for being a particularly sales-heavy edition of the fest continued today with Cinema Guild's acquisition of Grand Prix co-winner "Once Upon a Time in Anatolia". Of the 20 films that screened in official competiti...
Read More »The Cinema Guild has acquired U.S. distribution rights to Nuri Bilge Ceylan's "Once Upon a Time in Anatolia," co-winner of the Grand Prix at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival.
Read More »Today at indieWIRE, Harvey Weinstein got cozy with Madge's directorial follow-up, Morgan Spurlock offered up some advice for aspiring filmmakers, and two additional filmmakers in competition at this year's Los Angeles Film Festival came into focus on iW.
Read More »Following its highly successful 54th SFIFF, the San Francisco Film Society has appointed Max Boyer Glynn, Janet McKinley and Marc Ruxin to its board of directors. Board President Pat McBaine commented: "These new members of our able and growing team bring experience along with fresh perspective and ideas to a vital and dynamic cultural organization. Sharing, as they do with all of us at SFFS, a passion for film and filmmakers, they will play an important role in our expanding efforts to bring visionary film programming and educational courses to Bay Area audiences and students as well as invaluable financial and professional services to filmm...
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