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"I want the audience to work. I ask them to see the film from the beginning and devote their full attention to it, treating it with the same respect they would give a painting, a symphony or any other work of ...
posted to Like Anna Karina's Sweater on 2008-05-16T22:15:46-04:00
Enter our Presidential Zombie Photoshop Contest! And if you need inspiration, watch the brilliant Aussie zombie short I Love Sarah Jane.
Karina in Cannes: Follow her here. Also: Black Downey Jr. Billboards; Damme on Van Damme; THINKfilm’s Cannes do; Waltz With Bashir trailer; Sex on the way to Cannes.
The “controversial” lesbian kiss revealed: Vicky Cristina Barcelona [...]
posted to SpoutBlog on Fri, 16 May 2008 21:34:07 +0000
Hey archaelogists, best to get on the same page regarding your appreciation of Indiana Jones, you dig?
posted to SpoutBlog on Fri, 16 May 2008 19:02:04 +0000
Mike Jones uses a Qik phone to shoot my interview with Michael Moore abo...
posted to Thompson On Hollywood on 2008-05-16T18:53:55-07:00
From the Maryland Film Festival's Friends of the Festival program page on their site:" Dear ...
posted to DIY Filmmaker Sujewa on Fri, 16 May 2008 17:19:00 +0000
In another Jarmusch movie + art museum event news item, MoCA Shanghai opens a new exhibit/project called Night On Earth tomorrow; from their site:" MoCA Shanghai proudly presents Night On Earth, an innovative new project connecting a series of urban arts events in Berlin, Shanghai and Helsinki during the spring and summer of 2008. Night On Earth is an international co-production, generating a creative interaction between artists and...
posted to DIY Filmmaker Sujewa on Fri, 16 May 2008 16:54:00 +0000
From the Denver Art Museum site:"One of the pinnacles of the 1980s American independent movement, Stranger Than Paradise got its start as a thirty-minute short that Jim Jarmusch shot from leftover stock donated by director Wim Wenders. From that genesis, the $110,000 finished project evolved into the best picture of 1984 as voted by the National Society of Film Critics. Part of a new breed of indie...
posted to DIY Filmmaker Sujewa on Fri, 16 May 2008 16:38:00 +0000
"The only parts of Woody Allen's Vicky Cristina Barcelona that really and truly feel alive and crackling are the Spanish-language scenes between Javier Bardem and Penélope Cruz," writes Jeffrey Wells. "These two, portraying a pair of identically tempestuous, self-obsessed painters...
posted to GreenCine Daily on 2008-05-16T16:16:55-08:00
Among the joys in this 4:44 clip, Manoj speaks of this "90-minute paranoia movie that you just come out tattooed with this experience, you come out just shaking like the original...
posted to Movie City Indie on 2008-05-16T16:05:26-08:00
In the Auteurs' Notebook, Daniel Kasman writes an entry on "something from Cannes, that's not at Cannes. With all praise due to Olivier Assayas's technophiliac/technophobic recent films that bend and twist space and time as befits this globalized, postmodern...
posted to GreenCine Daily on 2008-05-16T15:52:09-08:00
In honor of SpoutBlog's Presidential Zombie Contest, the best zombie film I've seen in a long, long time
posted to SpoutBlog on Fri, 16 May 2008 15:30:29 +0000
The giallo genre, named after lurid pulp novels popular in Italy, spawned some of the most inventive, audacious films of the seventies
posted to Guardian Unlimited: Arts blog - film on Fri, 16 May 2008 15:30:00 +0000
Can we please keep the personal blog politics to a dull roar? It's more than a little boring.
How will Caspian open? Who is interested in seeing it?
Anyone still revving their Cannes engines?
posted to The Hot Blog on 2008-05-16T15:15:11-08:00
"One thing I really missed this time around were those brave, but homey bickering beavers voiced by Ray Winstone and Dawn French who guided the Pevensies in Witch I realize we keep leaping ahead through centuries of Narnian time in these stories. But couldn't those beavers somehow get a return engagement?"
Just thought I would solicit some opinion about MW...
The reviews of Caspian and Garci...
posted to The Hot Blog on 2008-05-16T15:13:15-08:00
"CineVegas will show a site-specific work by Takashi Murakami for one night only, June 16, at the Wynn Las Vegas." The Circuit's Michael Jones has details. Cinewhores NYC presents The World of Susie Wong at Galapagos Art Space on...
posted to GreenCine Daily on 2008-05-16T14:44:58-08:00
The SEX AND THE CITY movie is not at Cannes but, thanks to VOGUE, it's on my mind on the way out there.
posted to SpoutBlog on Fri, 16 May 2008 14:29:47 +0000
"It's probably not an exaggeration to say that were it not for Cannes, directors like myself would not get the chance to make the kind of films we are compelled to." Duane Hopkins, whose Better Things screens as part...
posted to GreenCine Daily on 2008-05-16T14:11:01-08:00
Four felons, two bunkbeds, Jason Statham and "that crazy TRANSPORTER shit."
posted to SpoutBlog on Fri, 16 May 2008 14:00:59 +0000
For the June 26th screening event at Lo-Def in Silver Spring, MD, I will be showing about 1.5 to 2 hours worth of short films. Shorts by James M. Johnston & Amir Motlagh & J. Kim will be there. If you have a short film that you would like to screen in Silver Spring, MD, mail me a DVD screener of ...
posted to DIY Filmmaker Sujewa on Fri, 16 May 2008 14:00:00 +0000
I wouldn't normally link to something so in agreement with me, especially when the issue has died down in here. But I found the image amusing enough to link it.
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(Now THAt would be a conversion... Lancelot Link! Or is it Space Monkeys...
posted to The Hot Blog on 2008-05-16T13:59:28-08:00
Blogs We House If you're around New York this weekend, you can catch a rare treat on the big, beautiful Walter Reade Theater screen on Sunday at 6:40. As part of Film Society of Lincoln Center's surprising but welcome Jennifer Jones retrospective,...
posted to Reverse Shot | May 16, 2008 @ 17:02
Congratulations and best wishes to New York filmmaker Myna Joseph as she heads overseas to the Croisette. Her short film, MAN--which won the Grand Jury Award for Best Narrative Short at the recent Florida Film Festival (thus qualifying it for...
posted to Enzian Theater | May 16, 2008 @ 16:49
Continuing coverage of the Marche du Film in Cannes, indieWIRE reports on the latest deals and news from the Croisette. India-based media company Reliance Big Entertainment commits to a $1 billion slate, the Weinsteins acquired "Eden Lake," and inked a...
posted to indieWIRE @ Cannes | May 16, 2008 @ 16:27
Just when you thought I could take a break from mentioning Goldfrapp this week, this info pops up. Notice that there is no official tracklisting yet. There better be an awesome b-side. C'mon Goldfrapp - unleash one of those other...
posted to DMW: Digital Music W... | May 16, 2008 @ 16:20
Lionsgate's new Ghost House Underground label has acquired Gregg Bishop's popular SXSW 2008 midnight movie, Dance of the Dead, according to Gregg Kilday at The Hollywood Reporter. Bishop's geek horror flick was easily one of the most beloved films in the SXSW midnight slate, and wowed audiences with its dose of John Hughes awkwardness and Sam Raimi bloodlust. Ghost House...
posted to Matt Dentler's Blog | May 16, 2008 @ 16:02
And you thought political turmoil and international warfare couldn't be amusing? Check out this video for the new Coldplay track, "Violet Hill," from their upcoming album, Viva La Vida. Filmmaker Mat Whitecross (co-director of The Road to Guantanamo and editor of Scott Walker: 30 Century Man) directed the clip, which meticulously edits images from a multitude of political figures getting...
posted to Matt Dentler's Blog | May 16, 2008 @ 15:00
David Mackenzie's acclaimed Scottish feature, Mister Foe, is finally coming to U.S. theaters on May 23. Acquired by Magnolia Pictures at Berlin 2007 (under its original title Hallam Foe), the film had its US Premiere at SXSW 2008. It's a very cool and sweet coming-of-age story, starring the always-reliable Jamie Bell. And, it features a pretty great soundtrack of Euro-rock...
posted to Matt Dentler's Blog | May 16, 2008 @ 14:28
I survived my first Cannes 08 hangover, and now have about 10 seconds to try and keep up with this daily blogging ambition I misguidedly started. Its rainy here, and today was a blur of headaches, the Palais basement and...
posted to The Lost Boy. | May 16, 2008 @ 14:19
Oh, the pleasures of being a 21st Century cinephile. I just watched IFC's Cannes Cam coverage of Arnaud Desplechin's red carpet for Un Conte De Noël, and I know the phrase is cliché, but really, only at Cannes. Wow. It is interesting; When this film has its US Theatrical release,...
posted to THE BACK ROW MANIFESTO by Tom Hall | May 16, 2008 @ 14:15
Exciting development news: Miranda July's sophomore feature, Satisfaction, is inching closer to production. Variety reports that the UK's Film4 and France's MK2 have signed on to produce the American film. July is an amazing artist, writer, and filmmaker. Her debut (as director, writer, and co-star) was the magical Me and You and Everybody We Know, which was easily my personal...
posted to Matt Dentler's Blog | May 16, 2008 @ 01:58
Hardball host Chris Matthews lets conservative radio host Kevin James have it. And, not for the reasons you might expect. If you're gonna talk about Neville Chamberlain, you better bring your "A" game... Thanks to Jeffrey Wells, for the link....
posted to Matt Dentler's Blog | May 16, 2008 @ 01:07
My favorite film from New Directors/New Films 2007, "Sangre de Mi Sangre" (Blood of My Blood) (originally titled "Padre Neustro") won the grand jury prize at Sundance earlier that year. I love seeing solid story-telling from a first-time director, in this case, Christopher Zalla.
posted to Valerie and Her Week of Wonders | May 15, 2008 @ 21:22
A year ago at TAF, I was doing this interview with Japanese TV broadcaster WowWow and Madhouse. We were talking about their latest manga adaptation of "Shigurui". The cover was fascinating. Take a look at the cover for Vol 3:...
posted to DMW: Digital Music W... | May 15, 2008 @ 21:18
I wish more films lived up to the excellence of a show I just saw on Broadway.
posted to Valerie and Her Week of Wonders | May 15, 2008 @ 20:25
While the Film Society of Lincoln Center wraps its showcase works exploring the legacy of May '68, and NPR presents the echos of '68, Baltimore City paper, offers this insightful, and thoroughly researched article by Joey Tropes exploring how...
posted to Gabe's Declaration of Principles | May 15, 2008 @ 18:37
While attendees sat inside the Cannes Film Festival's Debussy theater on Wednesday watching the morning press screening of Fernando Meirelles' harrowing "Blindness," nearby on the Croisette dozens of costumed pandas danced with Jack Black to hype the animated festival entry,...
posted to indieWIRE @ Cannes | May 15, 2008 @ 16:10
Continuing coverage of the Marche du Film in Cannes, indieWIRE reports on the latest deals and news from the Croisette. MTV acquires "Planet B-Boy from Elephant Eye, Celluloid Dreams begins pre-sales of Jacques Audiard's latest, Jada Pinkett- Smith brings her...
posted to indieWIRE @ Cannes | May 15, 2008 @ 16:09
I always say that if I could come back as anybody after I die, it would either be as Tiger Woods or James Bond. Considering James Bond is technically a fictitious character, I think the odds favor me as the next Tiger Woods. But let's face it, even that is a bit of a stretch. But like my man Djay...
posted to Action! Jackson | May 15, 2008 @ 15:40
Liz Gannes at NewTeeVee breaks down some of the best options available to download video content off the Web. As she writes, "Streaming web video is great and all, but every once in a while you find something that you just want to save and cherish for always." You can review her helpful toolkit here...
posted to Matt Dentler's Blog | May 15, 2008 @ 12:15
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