February 5, 2008 – 8:32 am
I did not expect to wake up this morning to a feed reader and email inbox full of stories about the full lineup for the 2008 SXSW Film Festival––the press release was not supposed to arrive until sometime this afternoon. But The Hollywood Reporter apparently broke the embargo on the information yesterday evening, so now [...]
January 17, 2008 – 11:14 am
From Sundance to the Oscars, the strike sullies everything it touches.
December 27, 2007 – 3:43 pm
Lists, lists, more lists, video lists. Is it 2008 yet?
December 5, 2007 – 1:45 pm
Slamdance has announced their 2008 lineup. On first glance, three documentary titles immediately pop out:
I Think We’re Alone Now (Documentary Feature Competition): Labeled “stalkers” by the media, Jeff and Kelly profess their love for the 80’s pop icon, Tiffany.
Spine Tingler! The William Castle Story (Twilight Screenings): A chronicle of the last great American showman, [...]
December 4, 2007 – 2:18 pm
Two films about eccentric teenagers hit New York screens on the same day. One of them needs you more than the other. Don’t you want to be needed?
December 1, 2007 – 9:02 pm
So says one of the many party invitations that I’ve received here at IDFA–this one from a Guests Meet Guests cocktail hour hosted by the Krakow Film Foundation, Polish Film Institute and Estonian Film Foundation. We’re not in Kansas anymore, Dorothy, look alive.
I’m currently working my way through screenings of as many award-nominated films [...]
November 19, 2007 – 4:00 pm
The prevalence of “international” film festivals continues to grow
November 2, 2007 – 10:23 am
Lower Manhattan’s notoriously unwieldy upstart is looking to sell more by showing less.
October 25, 2007 – 10:23 am
Noticing a fair amount of thematic overlap amongst the films selected for this year’s New York Film Festival, Filmbrain has created a visual aid, awarding 15 of the Festival’s official selections unhappy faces for their representations of things like divorce, adultery, and daddy issues. The exercise reveals that, amongst the 30-something films on this year’s [...]
October 9, 2007 – 3:31 pm
YouTube is reaching out to the online film community by borrowing a bit of iconography directly associated with one of that community’s most successful brands.
