The IRON MAN 2 presentation over the weekend has been declared the winner of Comic-Con by bloggers. But Scarlett Johansson is the most talked about part in the news today, so maybe it was all thanks to her?
Film Independent has released the core line-up for the 2009 Los Angeles Film Festival. There are a LOT of world and US premieres in the Narrative and Documentary competitions, both of which offer the winner a $50,000 prize courtesy of Target. I’m particularly excited about the latter, which includes Donal Mosher and Michael Palmieri’s October [...]
In a bit of an about-face, after issuing a press release announcing his intention to decline an invitation to screen his Tetro out of competition at Cannes, Francis Ford Coppola has agreed to allow the film to open that festival’s non-competitive Director Fortnight sidebar. For that reason and many more, the Fortnight lineup is terribly [...]
If you’ve been paying attention to any of the pre-Cannes speculation this year, you won’t be surprised to see that Quentin Tarantino’s Inglorious Basterds, Ang Lee’s Taking Woodstock, Lars Von Trier’s Antichrist, and Pedro Almodovar’s Broken Embraces made the competition lineup. You may be surprised by just how many modern masters, globally recognized provocateurs and [...]
Through one of the smartest film promotions I’ve seen in awhile, Disney has already sold 500,000 advance tickets to its little nature doc-for-kids, Earth, by promising to plant a tree for each audience member who pays to see the film during its first week (starting tomorrow and ending Tuesday, April 28). Never mind that all [...]
Sacha Baron Cohen’s latest docu-comedy, BRUNO, has received an NC-17 rating on its first round with the MPAA ratings board. Baron Cohen and Universal are very disappointed. NOT!
The Carpetbagger has posted the nine semi-finalists for the Best Foreign Film Oscar Nomination. Comparing this list to the list of 67 films submitted for consideration by their countries of origin, the only real notable omission I can spot is Italy’s Gomorrah; I’ve sen some bloggy chatter already lamenting the exclusion of Let the Right [...]
We’re less than two weeks away from receiving this year’s Oscar nominations, and though none of the major categories are completely predictable just yet, each has at least three or four certain favorites. Meanwhile, the final slots for Best Picture, Best Director and the acting and screenwriting categories may be simply a random grab from [...]
It is a crime in this day and age not to occasionally check in on Jeffrey Wells’ Hollywood Elsewhere, with topics ranging from billboard photos, blind item brunches and oddly angry political rants against apathetic teenagers.
Wells is a classic mix of online reactionary and keen insight, peppered with various “what the fuck” moments and the [...]
Oh, 2008 … where has the time all gone to? It seems like just yesterday that we were cringing at the faux Golden Globes, learning about Sweding, and seriously debating Juno’s chance at winning Best Picture. What fools we were! Perhaps we ought to head into the last year of The Aughts with a better [...]
OMG. OMG. OMG. The Sundance lineup is pasted after the jump! I will update this post with my thoughts as soon as I’ve thought them! OMG!
UPDATE:
Things that are notable/exciting to me on first skim include the following. Chime in with your own thoughts in the comments!
John Krasinski’s Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, based on the [...]
With the MPAA cracking down again on non-profit media duplication, Steven Boone gets ready to turn himself in.
The American icon comes out to his retrospective at BAM to talk about Godard, global catastrophe, and the lasting prescience of LITTLE MURDERS.
Check out 60-second versions of Oscar winners TITANIC, AMADEUS, THE FRENCH CONNECTION, WEST SIDE STORY, FROM HERE TO ETERNITY, GONE WITH THE WIND and WINGS
Look, I’m on the record: the first two Back to the Future films are my favorite blockbuster-and-sequel set of all time. And as maybe the most powerful cinematic treatment of the conflict between nostalgia (romance) and the true weight of history (responsibility) to come along since the dawn of the blockbuster era, it’s a no [...]
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