Spike Lee mocks Tyler Perry, and dishes on new projects about Kobe Bryant, Michael Jordan and Barack Obama.
A coincidental SilverDocs double-feature of two films about refugees in limbo.
Spike Lee has spent his own money to acquire Time Traveler, “a memoir by Ronald Mallett, one of the nation’s first African-Americans to earn a Ph.D in theoretical physics.” He’ll co-adapt and direct.
David Gordon Green’s The Pineapple Express will screen at the Just For Laughs Film Festival on July 19, three weeks before Sony opens [...]
The most controversial film at CineVegas equates spring break to Abu Ghraib.
In order to get to CineVegas after landing at McCarren Airport, you must first ride an escalator under Bette Midler’s legs. More images from the festival after the jump.
FINALLY, LILLIAN AND DAN Trailer
Finally, Lillian and Dan comes to CineVegas almost a full year after its first and only significant public screening, as part of the M-word heavy Summer 2007 Independents Week series at Harvard Film Archives. It’s a find, a definite cousin of the work being made in the Bronstein household––as with Frownland, [...]
What is Britney Spears doing at a film festival? Or: what happens to a film festival bred within the natural climate of Britney Spears?
The Woodstock Film Festival announced late last week that two of their Maverick Awards will be renamed to honor two late local residents. James Lyon, who died in 2007 after having cut The Virgin Suicides and three Todd Haynes films and starring in Poison and I Shot Andy Warhol, will lend his name to the [...]
A glimpse at a Japanese reality TV spoof about a superhero fighting monsters during mating season. Yes, this exists.
For all the Sex and the City promotional madness and media hype, says Diane Garrett at Variety, “there’s no escaping the fact that the movie is a chick flick with strong appeal among an older femme demo but questionable interest among others. All the magazine coverage in the world — 63 pages in the May [...]
