The documentary "Our Nixon" by Penny Lane serves as a bit of a complication to the popular narrative of Richard Nixon as our most scandalized and scheming of Presidents. While it doesn't seek to alter the this narrative, it does attempt to add another layer to the story, a perspective offered by tho...
Read More »There are vaults around the world filled with movies that time has forgotten, ambitious endeavors that missed their mark and seeming failures that are actually perfect midnight movie programming. 1979's "The Visitor" might be all of that, and we're going to soon find out.
Read More »Yes, it's true. We keep getting confused by three similar-sounding documentaries in the indiesphere right now: "Code Black," "The New Black" and "Blackfish." They each deal with vital but very different subjects (the LA County Hospital emergency room, assumptions about homophobia in the African-Amer...
Read More »Any true TV fan has a list of series that were canceled far too soon, ready to recite at the mere mention of "Arrested Development"'s rabid fan base. And if you’re science fiction fan, then your list if probably twice as long. They may not all be able to get a second life, but at least with Netflix ...
Read More »For the occasion of the first Indiewire Influencers list, a survey of 40 people and companies impacting the direction of the film industry, the Los Angeles Film Festival hosted a panel in downtown Los Angeles on Monday night sponsored by DIRECTV and Loyola Marymount University - Los Angeles featurin...
Read More »Actor Noah Emmerich is best-known for his serious film work, from Todd Field's "Little Children" and Peter Weir's "The Truman Show" to Gavin O'Connor's "Pride and Glory." Perhaps because of that film he keeps getting calls to play Irish cops, even though he's a New York Jew, he told me. (His brother...
Read More »Sam Taylor-Johnson has nabbed the much-sought after gig directing the film adaptation of EL James' insanely popular "Fifty Shades of Grey," Deadline is reporting.
Read More »The American media likes to suggest that the gay marriage debate is just about over, and that civil rights for the LGBT community is basically a battle that has already been won. (The latest polls suggest that a slim majority of Americans, 51%, are in favor of gay marriage.) But tell that to black f...
Read More »The illustrious Black Film Center/Archive (BFC/A) at Indiana University will kick off its fall 2013 program with a 7-film series, featuring the work of Ava DuVernay and the distribution company she spearheads, aka AFFRM.
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