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I was only mildly into comics as a kid, but my favorite character by far was the bitter and wounded Frank Castle, a man whose family had been murdered and whose search for vengance had turned him into a hard wired killing machine. So i was excited when, in 2004, ... read more Posted on 12/04/08 by: TheDailyKirk Comments (0 ) A little swerve for your Thursday
Not film related per se, but inspiring none the less. Posted on 12/04/08 by: TheDailyKirk Comments (0 ) 2009 Sundance Competitors Announced
The Sundance Film Festival has just announced its line-up for the 2009 competition in both the U.S. and World Cinema categories. Among the 118 narrative features and documentaries to be presented in Park City, 91 will be world premieres. Festival director Geoff Gilmore gives Variety his gloss on ... read more Posted on 12/03/08 by: FCFeatures Comments (0 ) A Night at the Gothams
Posted on 12/03/08 by: FCFeatures Comments (0 ) Oh, it's good to be back from the Gothams.I would say around 11:00 last night, there was a moment where I was officially lost. I had wandered outside the after party of the Gothams and my inner brain workings weren't working like you would hope. At that moment I wondered what would become of me. Abduction? Death? Deathduction? ... read more Posted on 12/03/08 by: TheDailyKirk Comments (0 ) Let's Build a Fire on Reel 13 ShortsReview of Let's Build a Fire
Amazing that an experimental-type film actually managed to win the Reel 13 shorts contest this week (The other experimental film offered up by Reel 13 – Everyday – didn't fare so well – and rightly so). Some might suggest that LET'S BUILD A FIRE is a music video, but I ... read more Posted on 12/02/08 by: eplromeo8 Comments (0 ) Half Nelson
Review of Half Nelson
Existence is suffering and a person who realize that real rule have to be lonely. and supposing drugs as medicine for that awareness and pain is completely an evidence for existence is a real sadistic occurrence. Posted on 12/02/08 by: delizade Comments (0 ) I want someone to come repossess my organs!Review of Repo: The Genetic Opera
Repo: The Genetic Opera is like the Rocky Horror Picture Show with a better soundtrack and all the gore of a Saw movie. I was pretty much squirming with delight from beginning to end. Paris Hilton represents. We are gonna be doing midnight showings of this movie for years to ... read more Posted on 12/02/08 by: CineSlut Comments (2 ) I am adhering to a pretty strict drug regimen to keep my mind limberSome people say it's wrong to go to the movies on drugs. They think it is disrespectful to the spirit of the cinema to show up to a Thursday night screening of Quantum of Solace on three hits of Ecstasy and a half gram of cocaine. They think breaking into ... read more Posted on 12/02/08 by: JLSmokehard Comments (0 ) Guys and Dolls on Reel 13Review of Guys and Dolls
What many people don't know is that I started in musical theater before I got into filmmaking, so my familiarity with GUYS AND DOLLS, in all its incarnations, goes back a long way. (Fun fact: Did you know that Damon Runyan's character of Sky Masterson was actually based on famed ... read more Posted on 12/02/08 by: eplromeo8 Comments (0 ) |
Tell No One
Tell No One: An interview with director Guillaume Canet: In TELL NO ONE pediatrician Alexandre Beck (Claude Chabrol regular Francois Cluzet) still grieves for his wife Margot Beck (The Diving Bell and the Butterfly's Marie-Josée Croze), brutally murdered eight years earlier. Only the friendship he has formed with his ... read more Posted on 06/27/08 by: FCFeatures Comments (0 ) 
Trumbo
Trumbo: An interview with director Peter Askin Dalton Trumbo was one of Hollywood’s highest paid screenwriters in the 1940s, penning films such as THIRTY SECONDS OVER TOKYO and KITTY FOYLE (for which he received an Academy Award nomination). In 1947 he was called before the notorious House Un-American Activities ... read more Posted on 06/26/08 by: FCFeatures Comments (0 ) 
Highlights from Sundance Institute at BAM
Interviews with directors Courtney Hunt and Margaret Brown: For the third straight year, Sundance Institute has packed up its bags and is moving into BAM for eleven days to present 22 features and 36 short films from the 2008 Sundance Film Festival, lively music concerts, Q&As with the artists, ... read more Posted on 06/24/08 by: FCFeatures Comments (0 ) 
Cannes Buttons
Short videos from the 2008 Cannes Film Festival: Director Josh Safdie and his partners in crime attended the 2008 Cannes Film Festival this year with their debut feature-length film, THE PLEASURE OF BEING ROBBED. The film collective took to the French Riviera streets with digital cameras in hand to ... read more Posted on 06/22/08 by: FCFeatures Comments (0 ) 
Revisiting Judy Berlin
An interview with actress Edie Falco: Boasting an all-star cast of New York actors including Edie Falco and Madeline Kahn, and shot in sumptuous black-and-white, JUDY BERLIN is an incredibly sensitive and humorous debut by writer/director Eric Mendelsohn. Winner of the 1999 Directing award at the Sundance ...
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A Promise to the Dead: On September 11, 1973, Chile’s military attacked its government. As the coup took hold, the democratically elected president Salvador Allende called government members to the ... read more Posted on 06/20/08 by: FCFeatures Comments (0 ) A Promise to the Dead
Opening Night Selection of the Human Rights Watch International Film Festival By Damon Smith Torture, “disappearances,” exile, and the brutal impact of war on women and families are big themes of this year’s Human Rights Watch showcase of 32 films (mostly documentaries) from 20 countries, co-presented by the Film Society of Lincoln ... read more Posted on 06/20/08 by: DGSmith Comments (0 ) 
My Winnipeg
An interview with director Guy Maddin: With his latest work, MY WINNIPEG, iconoclastic filmmaker Guy Maddin continues in the freewheeling, genre-bending tradition that has made him one of Canada’s most consistently intriguing and internationally respected artists. My Winnipeg is a documentary (or docu-fantasia, as he describes it) about ... read more Posted on 06/20/08 by: FCFeatures Comments (0 ) 
Savage Grace
Savage Grace: An interview with director Tom Kalin and actor Eddie Redmayne Savage Grace, based on the award winning book, tells the incredible true story of Barbara Daly, who married above her class to Brooks Baekeland, the dashing heir to the Bakelite plastics fortune. Beautiful, red-headed and charismatic, Barbara ... read more Posted on 06/20/08 by: FCFeatures Comments (0 ) 
Indie v. Indy: On Reprise and Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
Indie v. Indy: On Reprise and Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull By Michelle Orange “I heard him say more than once that he could not think with women around.”
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Judy Berlin: An interview with director Eric Mendelsohn
Judy Berlin: An interview with director Eric Mendelsohn Boasting an all-star cast of New York actors including Edie Falco and Madeline Kahn, and shot in sumptuous black-and-white, JUDY BERLIN is an incredibly sensitive and humorous debut by writer/director Eric Mendelsohn. Winner of the 1999 Directing award at the Sundance ...
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Posted on 06/19/08 by: FCFeatures
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War Inc.: An interview with director Joshua Seftel
War Inc.: An interview with director Joshua Seftel Partly inspired by the Naomi Klein article "Baghdad Year Zero," WAR, INC. is a humorous (and often scarily on-the-mark) send-up of war zone capitalism run amok. Cowritten and produced by John Cusack, the film can be seen as a darker, ... read more Posted on 06/19/08 by: FCFeatures Comments (0 ) 
Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson:
Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson: By Michelle Orange- I used to think that Hunter Thompson was for the boys. I tend to be suspicious of anything too many boys recommend at too young an age—Tom Waits, Jack Kerouac, Space Mountain—and while no one ever recommended Thompson ... read more Posted on 06/18/08 by: FCFeatures Comments (0 ) 
Tell No One Transcends Its Genre Narrative
Tell No One Transcends Its Genre Narrative By Zachary Wigon- Tell No One, Guillame Canet's adaptation of American novelist Harlan Coben's drug-store paperback, is a telling example of what Jean-Luc Godard once said in regard to his film Contempt: "The best novels to adapt are not the classics, but ... read more Posted on 06/13/08 by: FCFeatures Comments (0 ) 
When Did You Last See Your Father?
When Did You Last See Your Father?: An interview with director Anand Tucker When Did You Last See Your Father? is an unflinching exploration of a father/son relationship, as Blake Morrison deals with his father Arthur’s terminal illness and imminent death. Blake’s memories of everything funny, embarrassing and upsetting ... read more Posted on 06/13/08 by: FCFeatures Comments (0 ) 
From Faye Dunaway to Bob Dylan
From Faye Dunaway to Bob Dylan: An interview with Jerry Schatzberg One of the elite group of American independent directors who made their mark in the 1970s, Jerry Schatzberg rocked Hollywood convention with The Panic in Needle Park, Scarecrow and The Seduction of Joe Tynan. ...
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Operation Filmmaker
By Michelle Orange Posted on 06/10/08 by: MOrange Comments (0 ) 
Underground has distribution with MiniMovie.Michael Medeiros and Bennett Park Films have signed with MIniMovie to distribute Underground. It’s also now officially available on DVD at IndieFlix for a mere $5.95. This is a great film experience for parents and teenaged children. Something to talk about. When you think there's just no way to understand ... read more Posted on 06/10/08 by: Michael Medeiros Comments (0 ) 
Mister Lonely
Interview with director Harmony Korine: A Michael Jackson impersonator (Diego Luna) lives alone in Paris and performs on the streets to make ends meet. At a performance in a retirement home, Michael falls for a beautiful Marilyn Monroe look-alike (Samantha Morton) who suggests he move to a commune of ... read more Posted on 06/05/08 by: FCFeatures Comments (0 ) 
Films in the Making
Come with us as we go on set and behind the scenes to chat with the cast and crew of indie director, Alan Hruska's new film, Reunion. In REUNION, a group of smart and successful people, all members of a Yale secret society, meet years after ... read more Posted on 06/05/08 by: FCFeatures Comments (0 ) 
At the Death House Door
An Interview with Steve James and Peter Gilbert
Best known for their Oscar-winning Hoop Dreams, Steve James and Peter Gilbert have again collaborated on At the Death House Door, which trails Pastor Carroll Pickett, who served 15 years as the death-row chaplain to the infamous “Walls” prison unit in Huntsville, ... read more Posted on 06/05/08 by: FCFeatures Comments (0 ) Savage Grace
As Barbara Daly Baekland in Savage Grace, Tom Kalin’s mid-century melodrama and true-crime incest-aganza, Julianne Moore’s got the world by the teeth—her teeth. When she’s not clamping her consonants and working her vowels like a workhorse with a mouth full of Skippy, Barbara is discharging a full-bore laugh that could ... read more Posted on 06/02/08 by: MOrange Comments (0 ) Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson
By Michelle Orange Posted on 06/02/08 by: MOrange Comments (1 ) 
Operation Filmmaker
Operation Filmmaker: An interview with director Nina Davenport Idealism collides with complex realities in this wise and funny documentary. Amid the fallout from the Iraq War, actor Liev Schreiber spots a heart-tugging news story about an Iraqi film student, Muthana Mohmed. His school was bombed and Schreiber decides to ... read more Posted on 06/01/08 by: FCFeatures Comments (0 ) 
A Jihad for Love
A Jihad for Love: An interview with director Parvez Sharma Filmed without permission in eight countries, this sensitive documentary captures the lives of gay and lesbian Muslims throughout the world. From Iran to France, Jihad For Love tells the story of individuals torn between their faith ... read more Posted on 06/01/08 by: FCFeatures Comments (0 ) |
Let's Build a Fire on Reel 13 ShortsReview of Let's Build a Fire
Amazing that an experimental-type film actually managed to win the Reel 13 shorts contest this week (The other experimental film offered up by Reel 13 – Everyday – didn't fare so well – and rightly so). Some might suggest that LET'S BUILD A FIRE is a music video, but I ... read more Posted on 12/02/08 by: eplromeo8 Comments (0 ) Half Nelson
Review of Half Nelson
Existence is suffering and a person who realize that real rule have to be lonely. and supposing drugs as medicine for that awareness and pain is completely an evidence for existence is a real sadistic occurrence. Posted on 12/02/08 by: delizade Comments (0 ) I want someone to come repossess my organs!Review of Repo: The Genetic Opera
Repo: The Genetic Opera is like the Rocky Horror Picture Show with a better soundtrack and all the gore of a Saw movie. I was pretty much squirming with delight from beginning to end. Paris Hilton represents. We are gonna be doing midnight showings of this movie for years to ... read more Posted on 12/02/08 by: CineSlut Comments (2 ) Guys and Dolls on Reel 13Review of Guys and Dolls
What many people don't know is that I started in musical theater before I got into filmmaking, so my familiarity with GUYS AND DOLLS, in all its incarnations, goes back a long way. (Fun fact: Did you know that Damon Runyan's character of Sky Masterson was actually based on famed ... read more Posted on 12/02/08 by: eplromeo8 Comments (0 ) Things To Do on Reel 13Review of Things To Do
What is it about Reel 13's obsession with Canada? I can't seem to figure it out. It's a New York-based TV show – there are lots of New York films and New York filmmakers. Why do they insist on continually going north of the border for independent films? No comprendo. ... read more Posted on 11/21/08 by: eplromeo8 Comments (0 ) The Bad and the Beautiful on Reel 13Review of The Bad and the Beautiful
Believe it or not, I had not seen this film before and therefore, it was probably my most anticipated Reel 13 film yet. After all, it's a film I supposed was right up my alley – behind the scenes of old Hollywood, it had some actors I was excited about ... read more Posted on 11/20/08 by: eplromeo8 Comments (0 ) Manito on Reel 13Review of Manito
MANITO, the newest Reel 13 Indie about Puerto Rican brothers trying to escape their families' dark past and make ends meet in a mostly Hispanic neighborhood in Washington Heights, was extremely frustrating to watch – it's very dark (Was it timed down? Did the compression in the transfer crush the ... read more Posted on 11/20/08 by: eplromeo8 Comments (0 ) Fetch on Reel 13Review of Fetch
I don’t have very much to say about FETCH, the first animated short to be aired by Reel 13 (all of this week’s contestants on reel13.org were animated, so it’s not as if the viewers made it so). It was fine. Cute, funny – the animation is very ... read more Posted on 11/20/08 by: eplromeo8 Comments (0 ) Rebel Without a Cause on Reel 13Review of Rebel Without a Cause
Every once and a while, a movie comes around that defines a generation. EASY RIDER, ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN and THE BREAKFAST CLUB are all Examples. I would argue, however, that no film better defines the generation it came from than REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE, which aired last night on ... read more Posted on 11/19/08 by: eplromeo8 Comments (0 ) Wilby Wonderful on Reel 13Review of Wilby Wonderful
Reel 13's latest Indie hails from north of the border and features a cavalcade of present day Canadian stars (if there is such a thing), boasting the likes of Sandra Oh, Paul Gross, Maury Chaykin and the current it-girl Ellen Page (before she became super-cute). The film is a wannabe ... read more Posted on 11/19/08 by: eplromeo8 Comments (0 ) |
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