Spooning filmmakers! Unbearably hip Frenchmen! Pictures and notes from a night out in Los Angeles.
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.
A glimpse at a Japanese reality TV spoof about a superhero fighting monsters during mating season. Yes, this exists.
Just minutes ago I was trying to figure out where to stay in L.A. during the Los Angeles Film Festival, when an email floated through informing me that the fest’s full lineup has been posted at The Circuit. The Film Independent-backed event will open with the, um, less-than independent Angelina Jolie action film Wanted; it [...]
From a glimpse of the Ullmann breast to Ingmar Bergman’s death bed: highlights from the Sarasota Film Festival’s Conversation with Liv Ullmann.
Photo via zizzybaloobah @ Flickr.
I landed in Sarasota around 2:00 yesterday afternoon, and by the time I was standing in line for my first film an hour later, the sore throat I’d been carrying around for three weeks in New York since returning from SXSW had miraculously disappeared. It would be hard to overstate how [...]
It deals with smarter themes, but overall it works with dumber ideas. Unfortunately, Harold & Kumar 2 is not as simple or as fun as the original.
February 28, 2008 – 10:35 am
I’m typing this from Columbia, MO, where the True/False Film Festival is just getting underway. Shortly before I flew in yesterday, I found out that Christopher Bell’s surprisingly strong Sundance entry Bigger, Stronger, Faster had been added to the True/False program. Shortly after arriving, I found out that the film has been acquired by Magnolia, [...]
January 26, 2008 – 10:40 pm
indieWIRE has the full list of jury prize recipients for the 2008 Sundance Film Festival. My thoughts on select awards after the jump.
November 16, 2007 – 9:00 am
Here are some quick reviews of two SDFF films that I watched via screeners before touching down in Denver, and the one film I managed to see in town before succumbing to jet lag/altitude exhaustion. Oddly and entirely accidentally, all three films have something to do with aging males and their identity crises.
Karl Rove, [...]
