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 Blogs We Love Behold the marketing power of lesbianism, which is sure to bring an audience to Woody Allen's latest.
posted to SpoutBlog on Tue, 13 May 2008 17:00:54 +0000
Robert Rauschenberg, one of the last great post-war American artists still standing as of yesterday, has died at the age of 83. The New York Times has a four page obit. Above, in unlabeled footage from a documentary (if you recognize the film, let us know in the comments), Rauschenberg describes the making of his [...]
posted to SpoutBlog on Tue, 13 May 2008 16:17:14 +0000
Above: the construction of a giant Tropic Thunder ad outside the Carlton Hotel in Cannes, captured by Variety. More pictures of Hollywood’s billboard invasion of the resort town at the Circuit blog.
posted to SpoutBlog on Tue, 13 May 2008 16:00:20 +0000
It may seem like a waste of space to beat this dead horse too heavily, but since we did devote time to analyzing why the bombing of Speed Racer is likely to have a detrimental effect on the future of the blockbuster, it’s relevant. Turns out, the film made even less money than Warner Brothers [...]
posted to SpoutBlog on Tue, 13 May 2008 15:33:39 +0000
The Variety headline: “Production Resumes on [David O'Russell's] Nailed,” which had been shut down due to the production company’s failure to pay union fees last week. The real story: ThinkFilm, and its financial backers, Capitol Films, are having trouble paying the bills. Not only did Alex Gibney threaten a bankruptcy lawsuit after a promised bonus [...]
posted to SpoutBlog on Tue, 13 May 2008 13:10:35 +0000
An online competition offers internet film-makers the chance to realise their vision on a broader canvas
posted to Guardian Unlimited: Arts blog - film on Tue, 13 May 2008 13:00:00 +0000
Hollywood's attempts to lift a great sci-fi comic's plotlines from strip to screen have so far failed. Maybe Button Man will buck the trend...
posted to Guardian Unlimited: Arts blog - film on Tue, 13 May 2008 12:15:54 +0000
Robert Rauschenberg, the irrepressibly prolific American artist who time and again reshaped art in the 20th century, died Monday night. He was 82.... Building on the legacies of Marcel Duchamp, Kurt Schwitters, Joseph Cornell and others, he... helped to...
posted to GreenCine Daily on 2008-05-13T08:42:20-08:00
One sure sign of a movie that distribs are chasing after is when they tell you why they are not interested. The Israeli animated movie Waltz with Bashir is earning good advance buzz, and Cinemascopian has the
http://cinemascopian.com/2008/05/13/waltz-with-bashir-the-exclusive-first-trailer/">first trailer. It's too much like Persepolis, it's an imitation of a hit, etc. is what some buyers are...
posted to Thompson On Hollywood on 2008-05-13T08:07:50-07:00
Steven Spielberg proves that it doesn't matter what goes on in your movie as long as the audience is shaking from sensory overload once it's over
posted to Guardian Unlimited: Arts blog - film on Tue, 13 May 2008 08:00:00 +0000
At e-flux, Cuauhtémoc Medina remembers Mexican critic, curator, novelist and activist Olivier Debroise, who died on May 7, by presenting "an incredible, though incomplete, list of the roles he played, shots he fired, and crossfire in which he was...
posted to GreenCine Daily on 2008-05-13T07:43:36-08:00
"Outlook's Bollywood Special this year looks at the very core of commercial cinema - the Hindi film star, the one who makes or breaks a film, box-office records, and people's hearts, whose appeal is of the moment, and enduring,...
posted to GreenCine Daily on 2008-05-13T07:19:47-08:00
"It was coarse, sentimental, and outrageously materialistic - just as we hoped and expected it would be." Sex and the City: The Movie premiered in London last night and Celia Walden was there. Also in the Telegraph, John Hiscock...
posted to GreenCine Daily on 2008-05-13T06:28:00-08:00
"Sculptors and filmmakers reign on the shortlist for the 2008 Turner prize, which was unveiled this morning," announces Andrew Dickson in the Guardian. "Three women are in the running for this year's prize, which is awarded to a British-based...
posted to GreenCine Daily on 2008-05-13T05:46:15-08:00
Brian Darr Bruce Conner's Cannes-bound - and possibly last - film. According to the Walker Art Center's 1999 volume 2000 BC: The Bruce Conner Story Part II (there is no Part I,) the first screening of Bruce Conner's first film,...
posted to GreenCine Daily on 2008-05-13T02:30:01-08:00
David D'Arcy on two docs at the recently wrapped festival. At a San Francisco International Film Festival full of surprises (mostly on the small side), Forbidden Lie$ was one of the most satisfying. The Australian documentary by Anna Broinowski...
posted to GreenCine Daily on 2008-05-13T01:28:45-08:00
Blogs We House The festival doesn't start until tomorrow, but the Croisette already looks festival styles, with promotional posters and displays all over, and locals stalking celebritorial prey. I've spent most of today in the basement of the Palais helping churn out...
posted to The Lost Boy. | May 13, 2008 @ 12:04
1. PPT, Denglish (Call this one of the most unexpected delights of the year so far: a Dallas ensemble crafting catchy soul and R&B, with a special nod to the U.K. "Denglish" may mean Dallas + English, but PPT is on their way to having one of the most inventive underground releases of 2008.) 2. Nine Inch Nails, The Slip...
posted to Matt Dentler's Blog | May 13, 2008 @ 11:20
If writer-director Christopher Zalla's intent in Sangre de mi sangre was to sympathetically and realistically depict the plight of impoverished Mexican illegal immigrants trying desperately to eke out anonymous existences in urban U.S. areas, why does he litter his...
posted to Reverse Shot | May 13, 2008 @ 10:46
This past weekend in the UK (Mote Park, Maidstone, Kent to be precise), BBC Radio 1 held its Big Weekend music festival. If you look carefully at the 2-day billing, you will notice a menagerie of different bands but still...
posted to DMW: Digital Music W... | May 13, 2008 @ 02:07
IFC is launching a bunch of new episodic content that will exist both on broadcast and broadband. Some of it will look very familiar (season three of Young American Bodies, the hit news show Lunchbox), but there's a new show that has my attention: Wilfred. A popular Australian series, it has been re-formatted and delivered to American audiences as a...
posted to Matt Dentler's Blog | May 12, 2008 @ 23:40
This is an awesome piece the regional network, SNN was running through the weekend of our screenings: Here's an inciteful podcast from Noralil Ryan Fores who interviewed us for her excellent site ShortEnd Magazine: thoughts on independent film. To listen to the interview please click here: shortendmagazine.com/content/view/536/71 or find ShortEnd Magazine on iTunes. From the Good Hard Working People blog: She asked some really great questions, not only about All God's Children and our ...
posted to A DOC'S JOURNAL by Scott Solary | May 12, 2008 @ 23:16
It's big news in the world of online entertainment today: HBO is reportedly in final negotiations with Apple, about bringing its current and former original programming to iTunes and thus, Apple TV. This, by itself, is big news. Potentially larger news for the industry, is the rumor that HBO may have figured out a way to make Apple flexible on...
posted to Matt Dentler's Blog | May 12, 2008 @ 18:01
We've posted an excerpt from the documentary feature, Trinidad, up on YouTube. This is the documentary I executive produced that will have its world premiere next month during the Los Angeles Film Festival. Here you go:...
posted to Matt Dentler's Blog | May 12, 2008 @ 17:41
Wrapping up snapshots from Paris I return to last year's clip from my trip to the city. Wandering around the city and shooting digital pix and clips I recalled a track from my iPOD. Its from bandleader Ray Noble & singer Al Bowlly, last year on the train ride to Cannes I quickly cut together a low-res montage with...
posted to eugonline | May 12, 2008 @ 17:29
Folks have been buzzing about the days of consistently warm weather that arrived in Paris. On Sunday, Parisians relaxed in the Marais' Place des Vosges as the afternoon sun heated up the city. [photo by eugene hernandez]...
posted to eugonline | May 12, 2008 @ 16:57
A favorite spot in Paris is the popular Pont des Arts, a walking bridge that crosses the Seine, connecting the Louvre with the Institut de France. On a warm and bustling Saturday night, we gathered with some snacks from The Bon Marche's terrific Grand Epicerie. [photo by eugene hernandez]...
posted to eugonline | May 12, 2008 @ 16:19
I grew up on the East Coast. I lived in Rochester, NY for five years while attending college. This week long funk of May Gray here in LA should not be an issue, but I'm feeling a little under the weather. It makes me want to curl up in a blanket and watch a movie or three, like I did...
posted to Action! Jackson | May 12, 2008 @ 15:25
Its 8:30pm Cannes time and I'm barely hanging on to consciousness after being awake for about 30 hours straight. It's cold and rainy here, and the festival doesn't start for two days, so there isn't much of note Cannes-wise. I'm...
posted to The Lost Boy. | May 12, 2008 @ 14:56
It took me a little while to get the courage, but I finally decided to take a leap of faith and officially script what soon will be known in the annals of history as Noam Dorros's first ever blog. Noam Dorros you say? Who's Noam Dorros? I'm Noam Dorros! I was born amid a blustery snow storm in Wisconsin in...
posted to Action! Jackson | May 11, 2008 @ 20:31
Finally had a chance to check out Takashi Murakami's exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum. It does a good job of triggering the shopping reflex...
posted to Valerie and Her Week of Wonders | May 11, 2008 @ 19:59
Though it was simultaneously his first color and first 'scope film, Godard's elegantly anarchic A Woman Is a Woman is one of the French New Wave's true anti-spectacles. Beginning with its filmmaker's soon-to-be trademark huge, multicolored, screen-encompassing font emblazoning...
posted to Reverse Shot | May 11, 2008 @ 19:48
Wherein I get personal about some big news in my private life. But that's boring, right? Shouldn't you be reading about Cannes or something?
posted to THE BACK ROW MANIFESTO by Tom Hall | May 11, 2008 @ 16:30
I'm not attending the Cannes Film Festival for the first time in three years (I'm a little busy, you know, moving my life cross-country). But, if I was going to Cannes, you better believe I'd do my best to make a stop in Brighton, UK right before heading to the South of France. That's because the annual Great Escape Music...
posted to Matt Dentler's Blog | May 11, 2008 @ 16:25
With last week ending in sad news throughout filmland, I thought I'd try to perk things up a bit with this new video from Gnarls Barkley. It's for the song "Going On" from their album, The Odd Couple. It's a great jolt of perseverance, which is probably what we all need right now: This might be one of my favorite...
posted to Matt Dentler's Blog | May 11, 2008 @ 16:09
I'm readying myself 15 hours of taxis, buses, customs, security, sitting in airport lounges, fearing for my life as I ascend over the Atlantic Ocean, and the effects of 2-4 Advil PMs. Expect Cannesian posts for the next 2...
posted to The Lost Boy. | May 11, 2008 @ 15:14
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