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Blogs We Love How will the "indie" model change? Why is it inevitable? Hear the scoop here. You can see it there too. Will the truth be told before too much wine is consumed? You be the judge.Will Christine's prediction be true? I think I let the others get a word in edgewise. Granted some of my rant is recycled from some other events, but the others are pretty fresh I think....
posted to Truly Free Film on Sun, 23 Nov 2008 11:00:00 +0000
A whole bunch of us got together for food, drink, and lots of blab about the way this world of film is changing -- and now you can join us! The good folks at The Workbook Project made this happen with a little help from their friends of course. Come join Lance Weiler, Arin Crumley, Susan Buice, Lance Hammer, Faye Dunaway, Paul Rachman, Stephen Rapael, Slava Rubin, Joseph Marin, Jennifer Kushell, and of course myself. This is just the intro segment. Two more to come. ...
posted to Truly Free Film on Sat, 22 Nov 2008 20:21:00 +0000
Today, November 22, the international networking organization dedicated to the support and promotion of independent filmmaking called Shooting People, turns ten years old. In the UK, lo these many years ago, Cath Le Couteur and Jess Search set up SP...
posted to Still in Motion on Sat, 22 Nov 2008 13:47:57 -0500
Jonathan Yardley reviews Sinatra in Hollywood for the Washington Post and notes that author Tom Santopietro's "enthusiasm is admirable, but no one who knows Sinatra's films is likely to find it infectious or persuasive. Yes, Sinatra did appear in...
posted to GreenCine Daily on 2008-11-22T13:06:25-08:00
The Third Annual Heeb Film Festival runs today and tomorrow in New York and Lawrence Levi has a few recommendations in Nextbook. Also in New York, the Macedonian Film Festival runs for two more days; FilmCatcher's Damon Smith has...
posted to GreenCine Daily on 2008-11-22T09:14:13-08:00
I believe that the Passion of the Christ had the previous record for the best all-time day by an indie release with a $33 million first Saturday. That film opened on a Wednesday, softening their Friday... but that doesn't mean much when looking at just how huge this Twilight opening is. History would suggest a significant Saturday dro...
posted to The Hot Blog on 2008-11-22T09:03:18-08:00
By Miriam Bale[Editor's Note: Howard Hawks' His Girl Friday and Scarface play this weekend as part of the Film Society of Lincoln Center's tribute to Manny Farber. Click here (and on the film titles in the article) for more details. The lead image below is Farber's painting...
posted to The House Next Door on Sat, 22 Nov 2008 08:00:00 +0000
We interrupt this blog to bring you the trailer of our new film! Granted, it's not the kind of movie we will be doing all the kinds of things we've been talking about here, but it is still truly great. Mark your calendars: ADVENTURELAND opens March 27th.Adventureland trailer in HD...
posted to Truly Free Film on Sat, 22 Nov 2008 01:48:00 +0000
Richard Lorber has been an executive and educator in the media industry for decades, always maintaining an innovative and fresh approach to the various entities he helms. He doesn't just keep up; he stays well ahead of the curve, keeping...
posted to Still in Motion on Fri, 21 Nov 2008 22:51:51 -0500
By Keith Uhlich[Special opens today at Manhattan's Sunshine Cinema. Click here for more information. It is also playing on Time/Warner & Comcast Video-on-Demand. Check local listings.]...
posted to The House Next Door on Fri, 21 Nov 2008 21:30:00 +0000
THE WRESTLER trailer arrives, and proves there is some realism to be found in the fake sport of pro wrestling.
posted to SpoutBlog on Fri, 21 Nov 2008 21:04:56 +0000
A stunning meditation on the central formative events in his young life, twenty-seven year old Taylor Greeson's film memoir Meadowlark, a nominee for a 2008 “Best Film Not Playing at a Theater Near You” Gotham Award, is an evocative prairie nocturne, a beautiful retelling of horror and tragedy, a rewarding act of self-actualization rendered powerfully [...]
posted to / HAMMER TO NAIL on Fri, 21 Nov 2008 20:57:33 +0000
Twilight is poised to make a kazillion dollars this weekend, despite the fact that it contains mediocre acting and special effects that look like they were cutting edg...
posted to SpoutBlog on Fri, 21 Nov 2008 20:14:02 +0000
I’ll risk losing a number of cool points here by admitting that I’m a fan of the band Chicago. The band, as you might know, made the decision early in their careers that their record covers would not feature the band members but instead the band’s logo. The decision was an attempt to keep the [...]
posted to SpoutBlog on Fri, 21 Nov 2008 19:57:07 +0000
Our very own Karina Longworth is out right now at the Denver Film Festival for her role on a panel titled DIY Filmmaking in an Indie Apocolypse and she’s actively soliciting questions to ask via Twitter here so be sure to drop her a line if you have thoughts.
Spout is also thrilled to be sponsoring [...]
posted to SpoutBlog on Fri, 21 Nov 2008 19:51:57 +0000
By Kevin B. Lee[Editor's Note: This is the latest entry in House contributor Kevin B. Lee's Shooting Down Pictures, a record of his ongoing quest to see every title on the list of the 1000 Greatest Films compiled by They Shoot Pictures, Don't They?][...
posted to The House Next Door on Fri, 21 Nov 2008 17:30:00 +0000
For me, comparing a film to Forrest Gump would necessarily be pejorative. But to others, the second coming of Gump would be a blessing.
posted to SpoutBlog on Fri, 21 Nov 2008 17:27:24 +0000
For the past few years, I've made myself something of a pain in the tush to the motion picture academy, arguing that it's time--as in lo-o-o-o-ng overdue--to start revitalizing the Oscars. One of my many suggestions was to take the...
posted to The Big Picture on Fri, 21 Nov 2008 17:01:53 -0800
From Lord Ruthven in the short story THE VAMPYRE to Edward Cullen in TWILIGHT, SpoutBlog presents almost two centuries of vampire lovers.
posted to SpoutBlog on Fri, 21 Nov 2008 17:00:05 +0000
Blogs We House Amsterdam resident Peter Greenaway on stage yesterday at the city's premiere movie theater, the Tuschinski cinema. "Rembrandt's J'Accuse," his examination of Rembrandt's "Nightwatch," is a thrilling CSI-style deconstruction of the painting. I'll write more about it soon for indieWIRE. [photo by eugene hernandez]...
posted to eugonline | Nov 23, 2008 @ 05:30
Cheese shop. [photo by eugene hernandez]...
posted to eugonline | Nov 22, 2008 @ 12:17
It's almost Thanksgiving and that can mean only one thing when it comes to the local filmmaking scene--the monthly FilmSlams are over and the Brouhaha Film & Video Showcase is on the way. This year's Brouhaha, the 17th edition if...
posted to Enzian Theater | Nov 21, 2008 @ 21:43
Oscar-winning documentarian Rob Epstein recently had a chat with The Advocate, about his legendary documentary, The Times of Harvey Milk. With the new Gus Van Sant biopic on its way to theaters, Epstein reflects on his own film as well as the legacy of Milk, the man. Plus, Cinetic has now made The Times of Harvey Milk available on Amazon...
posted to Matt Dentler's Blog | Nov 21, 2008 @ 18:48
Over at the Movie Marketing Madness blog, Chris Thilk offers two cents about the recent report noting a lack of women offering voice-over narration in film trailers. From Thilk's post: While I’m sure there are female voice artists that are completely capable of doing the job and doing it well, the same sort of cultural attitudes will need to be...
posted to Matt Dentler's Blog | Nov 21, 2008 @ 17:55
Twilight, the feature film version of the immensely popular teen-vampire book, opens this weekend. It will be huge, it will top the weekend box office. I'm happy for the parties involved, because this is always good news for the film industry. Big congratulations to new distributor Summit Entertainment, who wisely brokered the film rights for this property. This film is...
posted to Matt Dentler's Blog | Nov 21, 2008 @ 17:00
[This review contains spoilers.] The title of The Betrayal refers to three different treacherous acts, each of a varying combination of personal and political significance for the family of Laotian subject Thavisouk Phrasavath. The first is the United States’...
posted to Reverse Shot | Nov 21, 2008 @ 15:07
The least one could ask of a wish-fulfillment fantasy film is a little buoyancy and breeziness. Yet for all its good-natured intentions, Tom Gustafson's Were the World Mine, in which a put-upon small-town gay teen converts his hopelessly straight...
posted to Reverse Shot | Nov 21, 2008 @ 15:04
Arriving at Amsterdam's Centraal Station (after the short train ride from Schiphol Airport) leads you right into a massive bike parking structure. In the downtown canal area of central Amsterdam, bikes have the right of way (ahead of pedestrians and then cars). For the seventh year in a row I'm in The Netherlands for IDFA, the world's largest documentary...
posted to eugonline | Nov 21, 2008 @ 08:29
Maximalism at its finest, in this film by director Arnaud Desplechin.
posted to Week of Wonders | Nov 21, 2008 @ 02:55
You would think that a cross-cultural, cross-religious lesbian romance should have enough built-in conflict to sustain an 80-minute feature, but Shamim Sarif's I Can't Think Straight slumps and stretches its way from its first uninspired set piece, an engagement...
posted to Reverse Shot | Nov 20, 2008 @ 11:12
Danny Boyle's Slumdog Millionaire could conceivably be described as another one of his fractured fairy tales (like Millions, A Life Less Ordinary, The Beach, or even 28 Days Later, Sunshine, and Trainspotting). Meaning, it's another stylized journey about a misunderstood young man thrown into the mix of heightened/magical reality, terrible danger, and a damsel in distress. The difference here, is...
posted to Matt Dentler's Blog | Nov 19, 2008 @ 22:18
MoMA is once again hosting the Gotham Award nominees for "Best Film Not Playing at a Theater Near You," with a series of screenings currently underway. Check out all of these films, because it is very possible this will be one of the only chances (outside of a film festival) you will have to see them on a big screen....
posted to Matt Dentler's Blog | Nov 19, 2008 @ 21:44
The Sundance Film Festival announced today that it would open its 2009 edition with Adam Elliott's animated Australian feature, Mary and Max, a dark comedy about two pen pals in opposite sides of the globe. Featuring voices by Philip Seymour Hoffman and Toni Collete in the titular roles, the film marks Elliott's anticipated leap into feature-length animation. His 2004 animated...
posted to Matt Dentler's Blog | Nov 19, 2008 @ 18:32
Greg Gillis may not make original music, but how he mashes up others' music is VERY original....
posted to A DOC'S JOURNAL by Scott Solary | Nov 19, 2008 @ 13:24
I'm somewhere near Syracuse, New York in the midst of one of the most enjoyable bus experiences I've ever had (save for a horrible, horrible customs fiasco, but that shouldn't technically be considered part of the bus' experience). Greyhound...
posted to The Lost Boy. | Nov 19, 2008 @ 13:12
One can't accuse director Yair Hochner of not giving his target audiences what we want: in the opening fifteen minutes of the Israeli filmmaker's ensemble dramedy of hook-ups and hang-ups among a small group of gay men in Tel...
posted to Reverse Shot | Nov 19, 2008 @ 09:46
Halloween had an encore late Sunday evening as Enzian hosted the Orlando premiere of REPO! THE GENETIC OPERA with director Darren Lynn Bousman and producer/actor Terrance Zdunich in attendance. Bousman, a local product who graduated from Full Sail University in...
posted to Enzian Theater | Nov 18, 2008 @ 21:53
Variety's The Circuit bog has my dispatch from CPH:DOX in Copenhagen, up on the site. Check it out for some details on what was seen and loved during the fest last week....
posted to Matt Dentler's Blog | Nov 18, 2008 @ 18:15
The guys from Sweaty Robot (Happy Birthday, Harris Malden) made this loving homage to Thanksgiving, and Alien. Check this out and stay tuned to check out their feature film, coming soon from CRM. Warning, this gets a little bloody:...
posted to Matt Dentler's Blog | Nov 18, 2008 @ 14:28
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