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At the New York Post's Page Six today, Sienna Miller's publicist poo-poos that cough-blatant publicity-grabbing plant of a-cough New ...
posted to The IFC Blog on 2007-02-01T20:48:12-05:00
Is Pavel Ruminov's Dead Daughters the first Russian horror movie? Tom Birchenough considers at Moscow Times. 2006 "saw the release of The Witch, a loose adaptation of the Nikolai Gogol story "Viy" that was promoted as the same thing. But given that [it was] in English and set in [the States], there are grounds for disputing its Russian provenance. And then there was the original...
posted to Movie City Indie on 2007-02-01T19:57:38-08:00
Under the appellation Hammer & Tongs, Garth Jennings and Nick Goldsmith created the best music ...
posted to The IFC Blog on 2007-02-01T19:06:41-05:00
An overview of recent quotables:
Talking to Phillip McCarthy at the Sydney Morning Herald, Joe Carnahan, evidently smarting from the ...
posted to The IFC Blog on 2007-02-01T17:13:57-05:00
Another county heard from: In Prague Post, Darrell Jónsson offers another take on the aborning success of Sundance audience award winner Once. "For nearly five years, the Czech Republic has been a home away from home...
posted to Movie City Indie on 2007-02-01T16:59:25-08:00
Shawn Levy reports on an unusual purchase on Portland's moviegoers' behalf: "Seth Sonstein and Nicola Spechko, owners of Southeast Portland's irascible and essential Clinton Street Theater, have done something [almost unheard of]. Th...
posted to Movie City Indie on 2007-02-01T14:45:44-08:00
"Anticipated by the German Expressionists, discovered by French aesthetes, beloved by American film scholars, the atmospheric crime stories, paranoid policiers, and hard-boiled detective yarns known as film noir constitute the most stylized, self-consciously artistic tendency in Hollywood history," J. Hoberman begins 3,700 densely reasoned words on "Sunshine Noir"...
posted to Movie City Indie on 2007-02-01T13:51:11-08:00
As Variety reported on Tuesday, William Monahan, the scre...
posted to The IFC Blog on 2007-02-01T13:45:20-05:00
"Is no one going to say that Robert Altman was a great pothead? Let me, then. Robert Altman was a great pothead. In the war on drugs, he won." So begins Michael Tolkin's appreciation in Artforum. There are stories...
posted to GreenCine Daily on 2007-02-01T13:40:38-08:00
Daniel Radcliffe is doffing his kit to star in Anthony Shaffer's "Equus'; the PR photos are reminiscent of the art from Sundance for THINKfilm's release of Robinson Devor's zoophilic doc, Zoo, and, well, this is not a pun to be wasted. Mr. Radcliffe has his say in this ...
posted to Movie City Indie on 2007-02-01T13:12:28-08:00
Political groupblog topper Markos Moulitsas Zuniga does a one-two-three on Al Gore's
"target="_blank">AM news). "Gore was just nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, ...
posted to Movie City Indie on 2007-02-01T12:54:53-08:00
Will or won't Chinese censors allow Li Yu's Lost in Beijing to screen - and compete - at the Berlinale? According to Jonathan Landreth at the Hollywood Reporter, that remains an open question. The Austin Chronicle takes a sneak...
posted to GreenCine Daily on 2007-02-01T12:46:36-08:00
"As I found out soon after driving in from Salt Lake, there are at least two Sundances, one powered by carefully managed pre-festival 'buzz' and the other by filmgoers flying by their own lights," writes Sam Adams for the...
posted to GreenCine Daily on 2007-02-01T12:22:04-08:00
Michael Tolkin takes the measure of the AltMan who directed his The Player (1992) as well as a man named Tolkin: "Is no one going to say that Robert Altman was a great pothead? Let me, then. Robert Altman was a great pothead. In the war on drugs, he won. To look at his work without thinking about ...
posted to Movie City Indie on 2007-02-01T11:49:16-08:00
Doing a quick scan of the Cinecultist archives, we noticed we're really kind of obsessed with Mandy Moore. As evidence, we discovered we've blogged about her movies How To Deal, Chasing Liberty, Saved! and American Dreamz. Now that's some...
posted to Cinecultist on 2007-02-01T11:24:11-05:00
It's possible to make 20 different legitimate arguments along the lines of, "Letters From Iwo Jima, Babel, and The Queen split the serious vote, The Departed loses a little to both those and on the light side to Little Miss Sunshine, so LMS wins," or "Letters From Iwo Jima is the only serious picture with prestige talent and people are finally looking at it," or "The hardcore serious goes Letters/Babel and the hardcore movie joy people go Sunshine/Departed, splitting both and letting The ...
posted to The Hot Blog on 2007-02-01T11:11:28-08:00
Universal Pictures has won yet another heated bidding war, this time for a revisionist take on the Robin Hood legend starring Russell Crowe as the "good" sheriff tracking down the Sherwood Forest ...
posted to The Hollywood Reporter: Risky Biz Blog on 2007-02-01T08:27:39-08:00
Guerrilla marketing, a device often used by independent filmmakers, can entertain, inform, advertise, or, in stupid hands, shut down traffic all across Boston. WBZ reports that Time Warner's Turner Broadcasting System's weird promos for "Aqua Teen Hunger Force" caused police to shut down several important traffic arteries and cause chaos across that city. [Time Warner's CNN Headline News also employs the ...
posted to Movie City Indie on 2007-01-31T23:56:19-08:00
Blogs We HouseSoooo old news....
posted to Matt Dentler's Blog | Feb 01, 2007 @ 17:10
Following the posting of the film's one-sheets, AICN has now led us to the international teaser trailer for Judd Apatow's hilarious new film, Knocked Up:...
posted to Matt Dentler's Blog | Feb 01, 2007 @ 16:11
The success of the 2006 midterm elections may have tempered Democrats' long-held grudge against Ralph Nader, but An Unreasonable Man is set to reopen the nasty wounds left from his quixotic 2000 presidential campaign, when several hundred votes for...
posted to Reverse Shot | Feb 01, 2007 @ 16:07
This is an uncomfortable subject to bring up, but I feel like it needs to be addressed (in other words, I don't feel like attacking the SILVER JEW trailer right now, so I'm going to waste some precious time babbling...
posted to "Boredom at Its Boredest" by Michael Tully | Feb 01, 2007 @ 12:52
Dear Sundance Albertsons Shoppers: Next Sundance is a year away, and most everyone is thankful for that. In preparation of January '08 (and I know people out there have already begun prepping), I offer you this: When wandering through the...
posted to Jared Moshe's weblog | Feb 01, 2007 @ 12:32
Code: Green In a bizarre story widely reported today, some "suspicious" signs that looked like Lite Brites were mistaken by Boston officials as part of an elaborate terrorist scheme. Lite-Brite "Officials found a slew of blinking electronic signs adorning...
posted to Gabe's Declaration of Principles | Feb 01, 2007 @ 05:04
Taika Waititi's Eagle vs Shark is certainly one of the sleeper-hit crowd-pleasers of this past Sudance Film Festival. Starring Jemaine Clement from cult-fave New Zealand comedy duo, The Flight of the Conchords, the film is garnering massive buzz from those who saw it in Park City. Over at GreenCine, David Hudson has compiled some of the best and brightest online...
posted to Matt Dentler's Blog | Jan 31, 2007 @ 21:19
While some journalists are focusing on a traditional Sundance/Slamdance rivalry, between dueling video game docs Chasing Ghosts vs. The King of Kong, the real video game story in Park City was what happened (or more appropriately what didn't happen) to...
posted to Gabe's Declaration of Principles | Jan 31, 2007 @ 20:20
From an email I received today from Full Frame: "This grant funds first time documentary makers for travel and accommodations at the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, April 12-15, 2007. For four days, grant recipients will be given access to...
posted to Gabe's Declaration of Principles | Jan 31, 2007 @ 19:39
AICN has posted two of the American, and one of the international, posters that will be used for Judd Apatow's upcoming comedy, Knocked Up. This is a hilarious film that I had the good fortune of seeing in December (it opens June 1). I recommend checking it out, maybe sooner than you think. Check out the international poster, which is...
posted to Matt Dentler's Blog | Jan 31, 2007 @ 18:40
Foreign-film aficionados should check out Jaman.com, a new website I wrote about in The Daily Reel today. "With over 1,000 films, many available to rent free for a five-day period (during the test phase) or to purchase for $4.99 a pop, Jaman's catalogue is impressive for a start-up. Titles include everything from Shaw Brothers martial arts classics such as The Legend Of The Fox, The Sentimental Swordsman, and The Lady Hermit to recent celebrated Bollywood melodramas Black and Chokher B...
posted to Anthony Kaufman's blog | Jan 31, 2007 @ 16:18
Wired delivers an analysis on some of the resources being made available to the tech-savvy Super Bowl audience. From online betting to party planning, and the inevitable mess clean-up, they've got you covered....
posted to Matt Dentler's Blog | Jan 31, 2007 @ 15:18
The talk of the Sundance Film Festival, Robinson Devor’s Zoo conveys, with remarkable restraint, intimacy, and visual daring, the inner worlds of men and the horses they love. Initially, Devor’s clinical approach to the too-nasty-to-be-true dramatization of the widely...
posted to Reverse Shot | Jan 31, 2007 @ 14:55
I always said that 33 was going to be my year. I don't know why that is (it's definitely not a Jesus fixation), but for a long time I've had a weird voice telling me that things were really going...
posted to "Boredom at Its Boredest" by Michael Tully | Jan 31, 2007 @ 13:55
Find out in their latest newsletter. It's all about the incentives, baby....
posted to Matt Dentler's Blog | Jan 31, 2007 @ 13:24
Nearly every year, there's some story about some TV commercial that was denied inclusion (based on content) during the Super Bowl's broadcast. As Anthony Kaufman reports on The Daily Reel, web-video outlets have become a sanctuary for many of these "forgotten" advertisements. Kaufman also directs us to GoDaddy.com CEO Bob Parsons, and his attempts to draw attention to his company's...
posted to Matt Dentler's Blog | Jan 31, 2007 @ 01:15
Are you a Nick Drake fan? Well on Saturday, March 17, you're in luck....
posted to Matt Dentler's Blog | Jan 31, 2007 @ 0:45
Hip-hop producing wonder Timbaland will release his latest solo effort, Shock Value, on March 27. Not surprisingly, he managed to lock down an impressive array of guest performers for the disc. According to Billboard, they will include Justin Timberlake, M.I.A., Elton John, Jay-Z, The Hives, She Wants Revenge, Snoop Dogg, and more. Nice....
posted to Matt Dentler's Blog | Jan 31, 2007 @ 0:29
Making waves online and on TV today were revealing photos promoting actor Daniel Radcliffe (star of the "Harry Potter" films) and his new British play, Equus (right). For those returning from Sundance, the shots surely drew a giggle...they look a lot like ThinkFilm's promotional still for Robinson Devor's fest favorite, "Zoo" (left)....
posted to eugonline | Jan 30, 2007 @ 23:18
Not really a reference to the state of the films on display in Park City, but rather a comment on the frigid weather we had for the majority of the week we were out there. The temperature never seemed to...
posted to Enzian Theater | Jan 30, 2007 @ 22:30
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