Thank goodness I’m not the only one fed up with the whole viral marketing campaign thing.
The first ROLFCon took place last week. The official website describes the gathering this way, “Mix up a bunch of super famous internet memes, some brainy academics, a big audience, dump them in Cambridge, MA and you’ve got ROFLCon.” It’s the most recent edition to a long list of fests and cons I would go [...]
April 30, 2008 – 10:58 am
The Argentine and Guerilla have been labeled, together, “Lawrence of Latin America”
April 30, 2008 – 10:00 am
The New York Observer reports that Oscar winning filmmaker Alex Gibney is working on a documentary about Eliot Spitzer, the New York governor who was forced to resign after his predilection for semi-pricey hookers was revealed last month. Gibney is collaborating with Peter Elkind, who wrote the book that inspired Gibney’s Enron doc The Smartest [...]
Confirmation came yesterday afternoon that the films long expected to open and close the Cannes Film Festival, Fernando Meirelles’ Blindness and Barry Levinson’s What Just Happened?, will in fact do so, despite recent rumors that the latter film had been nixed due to its post-Sundance loser taint.
Magnolia has purchased Wayne Wang’s A Thousand Years [...]
Todd Rohal’s The Guatemalan Handshake, starring Will Oldham, is available on DVD today, thanks to the boys from Benten Films. See appreciations from Paul Harill, Michael Tully, and Michael Atkinson; see the trailer above.
“The Nonfiction Box Office is up more than 1100% from one year ago,” points out AJ Schnack. And it’s not just one [...]
The reclusive author called the original Indiana Jones film “unwitty”, “unfunny” and “awful”.
The remake of the ’70s TV show will only mess with part of our childhood.
Is IRON MAN’s 86% critical approval rating a box office kiss of death?
April 29, 2008 – 12:03 pm
Four Eyed Monsters - Episode 9 - Shock
It’s been almost two years since the last “official”, non-news oriented episode of the Four Eyed Monsters video podcast. Today, IFC releases a new Four Eyed Monsters DVD, which contains the film, the previous 8 video podcast episodes, and five new episodes that finally pick up the Arin [...]
