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Are A-List Stars Saving—Or Waylaying—Indie Film?

Commercials Director Randy Krallman To Make His Feature Debut On 'Bullies' Starring Danny McBride

Danny McBride’s had a tough 2011 at the box office. “Your Highness” and “30 Minutes or Less” were basically flops, but money isn’t everything, and McBride is a talented guy who seems to be well-liked by people who greenlight movies. He’d have to be afte...

Experimental Filmmaker Ken Jacobs Occupies Wall Street - in 3D!

The number of filmmakers documenting the Occupy Wall Street is growing. After recent efforts by Jonathan Demme and Jem Cohen, veteran avant-garde luminary Ken Jacobs -- father of Azazel Jacobs -- has uploaded a 6-part series of videos to YouTube (part one is embedded below). Like many of videos t...

Anti-fracking “Gasland” Director Josh Fox Keeps Up the Heat

Joyce McKinney Sues Errol Morris Over ‘Tabloid’

Well, she’s been threatening it for months now (but with her, how do you know what she’ll actually do?), but it’s actually come to pass: Joyce McKinney, the subject of Errol Morris’ outstandingly odd “Tabloid,” is suing the director for, among many other things, “likeness, defamation, misrepresentation, fraud, intentional infliction of emotional distress and breach of contract.” “Tabloid” is the story of McKinney’s life, specifically an incident in 1977 when she flew to England to retrieve her boyfriend, who was on missionary work for the Mormon church and who claimed, late...

Classy: Brett Ratner Says He "Banged" Olivia Munn

Brett Ratner has never been shy of making his appreciation of the female form known, and when it comes to his own junk, the director is his own biggest fan. So who can blame him when can't remember the name of somebody he slept with?

Are A-List Stars Saving -- Or Waylaying -- Indie Film?

Experimental Filmmaker Ken Jacobs Occupies Wall Street - in 3D!

The number of filmmakers documenting the Occupy Wall Street is growing. After recent efforts by Jonathan Demme and Jem Cohen, veteran avant-garde luminary Ken Jacobs -- father of Azazel Jacobs -- has uploaded a 6-part series of videos to YouTube (part one is embedded below). Like many of videos to come out of OWS, the footage is verite observations of the activities of the protesters. But Jacobs goes one step further in trying to put viewers into the lively environs, by putting the footage in 3D. (Glasses not included.) In the explanation below the video, Jacobs writes: "Short visit to Zuccotti Park. Flo and I walk uptown along B...

Anti-fracking "Gasland" Director Josh Fox Keeps Up the Heat

Much to the surprise of everyone, including its director, Josh Fox's "Gasland" has become a political lightning rod of a doc. While the film didn't make waves in theatrical release, its HBO broadcast and Oscar nomination has raised awareness for the dangers of the natural gas in...