And by best I mostly mean it’s the most entertaining, exciting and enjoyable war films in years.
Fitting for May Day, Variety has the latest on the AMPTP and SAG negotiations, and things don’t look good. The majors are quite upset with the demands of the union, delivering the message that “Unless SAG backs off its demands on DVD and new media soon, it can forget about a deal even if thesps [...]
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 [...]
April 28, 2008 – 12:00 pm
James Marsh takes time out of his MAN ON WIRE victory lap to bring his culinary biography of Elvis to NYC.
April 28, 2008 – 10:53 am
Today in Film Theory From The Darndest Places: an internet boy millionaire and a FOX News gossip columnist call out Madonna’s documentary ethics.
April 25, 2008 – 10:00 am
The night before Sony Pictures Classics planned to open Errol Morris’ Abu Ghraib doc Standard Operating Procedure in two theaters the Tribeca Film Festival hosted a screening of the film, followed by a conversation between Morris and Jarhead author Anthony Swofford.
Beat to the festival circuit by over a year by Rory Kennedy’s Ghosts of Abu [...]
April 24, 2008 – 12:47 pm
I’ve been making plans travel plans for the next couple of months this week, and it looks like in mid-June I’ll be making my first trip to SilverDocs. And look: they’ve just made their first major program announcement:
Spike Lee, the Oscar-nominated director of Do the Right Thing, will be honored at this year’s Silverdocs film [...]
Artist Steve Kurtz, the subject of a 2007 documentary, has been cleared of all charges.
Disney celebrated Earth Day by announcing Disneynature, a new production shingle exclusively devoted to making documentaries about the environment. Films in the pipeline include Oceans, the lastest from Winged Migration director Jacques Perrin.
Jackie Chan has been recruited by the MPA as the poster boy for a new campaign targeting piracy in China. The action star [...]
Actually he’s “more for Obama The Movement than it is for Obama the candidate.”
