August 31, 2007 – 9:13 pm
I arrived at the Telluride Film Festival just in time for the opening night feed, a public buffet where all festival attendees are invited to drink beer (thank you, Heineken), eat indian buffet, and mingle. After a 15 hour, misadventure-laden journey, I felt like a zombie, but Paul and I managed to chat briefly with [...]
August 31, 2007 – 8:00 am
Did “Mumblecore” end before it ever got started? The latest flash in the indie film pan has yet to prove if it will fizzle or flame.
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August 30, 2007 – 1:55 pm
Getting ready for Telluride by YouTubing George Kuchar.
August 30, 2007 – 12:37 pm
Yay! It’s here. First thing’s first: two of the three tributes will, indeed, be presented to Daniel Day-Lewis and Shyam Benega; the other will focus on composer Michel Legrand (awesome). Other highlights: special screenings of King Vidor’s The Big Parade, a documentary about Val Lewton directed by Martin Scorsese and Kent Jones, a program dedicated [...]
August 30, 2007 – 7:53 am
Can’t wait twelve hours to find out what’s screening at Telluride? Join us in wild speculatation!
August 30, 2007 – 5:24 am
Lions For Lambs, Tom Cruise’s first production as president of United Artists, will open AFI Fest in November. The film, which “explores issues surrounding the war in Afghanistan,” is Robert Redford’s first as director since The Legend of Bagger Vance. Redford, Cruise, and Meryl Streep star. The project is considered a major test for Cruise [...]
August 29, 2007 – 3:07 pm
After I wrote that post last week on the films of Kentucker Audley and Frank V. Ross, I got a nice email from Quiet City producer Brendan McFadden, gently reminding me that although I had lumped the female protagonist of the film in with the relatively cosmopolitan characters of some the other mumblecore films, in [...]
August 29, 2007 – 12:01 pm
Behold! BlogNosh is a semi-regular round-up of film blog links worth scrobbling.
August 29, 2007 – 11:00 am
With hype rendering the m-word toxic, is it possible to rescue the individual movies from the rubble?
August 29, 2007 – 10:13 am
Todd Brown stayed up late last night working on Twitch’s massive gallery of Toronto trailers. Go on over and browse–it’s set up by program section–but keep in mind that some of the links lead to YouTube clips that have been removed by their copyright holders. Just perusing Twitch’s gallery, I saw a number of films [...]
