August 7, 2008 – 11:10 am
How did Bill Maher and Larry Charles get religious figures to agree to be interviewed on camera by the notoriously hostile-towards-religion Maher for their upcoming doc Religulous? According to an interview the comedian gave Patrick Goldstein, they didn’t:
It was simple: We never, ever, used my name. We never told anybody it was me who [...]
Mike Myers isn’t The Love Guru without the beard and mustache. Here are ten other iconic roles that wouldn’t have worked without the facial hair.
The Death of Film Criticism, Chapter Twelve.
By the time you read this, that Roman Polanski doc will already have completed its secret Oscar qualifying run.
Movies that make Yankee fans mad.
Slavoj Zizek + Telluride
On our podcast: Iraq fatigue and Wholphin.
Josh Hartnett stars in the movie no one on the internet is willing to admit that they’re [...]
A U.S. District judge threw out a defamation case against the makers of Borat yesterday, on the grounds that Sacha Baron Cohen’s fake journalist schtick is protected under the same laws as real journalism. A New York businessman had sued for unspecified, claiming he was humiliated against his will when footage of Cohen chasing him [...]
February 7, 2008 – 10:44 am
Last week, I posted about Build a Ship, Sail to Sadness, Laurin Federlein’s highly-improvised, Hi8-sourced, sorta-doc/sorta-musical, which wraps up its one week run at the Anthology Film Archive here in New York tonight. That afternoon, I got a Facebook message from someone associated with the film, urging me *not* to go see it. I don’t [...]
September 5, 2007 – 5:39 am
A brief hop back on the news beat in between festivals.
