(Film, Park City, UT) John Krasinski, Helen Hunt, Michael Cera, Amanda Seyfried, Danny Glover and rap star Common are among the stars with movies heading to the Sundance Film Festival. ...more...
Art News
Helen Hunt, John Krasinski, Michael Cera, Amanda Seyfried in spotlight as Sundance unveils key films for 2012 festival
December 7, 2011
Shankman’s Nutcracker will have no ballet
December 7, 2011
(Film, National) Adam Shankman says he’s going to shoot his Nutcracker as an action/adventure story. ...more...
Spielberg debuts his War Horse at Lincoln Center
December 6, 2011
(Theater, Film, New York) Steven Spielberg’s film adaptation of War Horse saw the light of day for the first time at Lincoln Center on Monday evening. ...more...
Nearly fifty years after her death, why we still love Marilyn Monroe
December 5, 2011
(Film, National) “Something’s Got to Give”, indeed, but it hasn’t yet. ...more...
“Mill and the Cross” opens at the Ft. Worth Modern
December 2, 2011
(Art Museums, Film, Dallas/Ft. Worth) Lech Majewski’s The Mill and the Cross debuts this evening at 6 at the Modern Art Museum of Ft. Worth. ...more...
The 2011 film awards season might be dominated by dude films
December 1, 2011
(Film, National) This could well be turning into the filmic Year of the Dude. ...more...
TIME names 10 best B&W Films of the Color Era
November 30, 2011
(Film, National) Taking a cue from The Artist, TIME’s Wook Kim takes a look at the ten best black-and-white features of the color era. ...more...
“Tree of Life” and “Beginners” split top award at Gotham Independent Film Awards
November 30, 2011
(Film, New York, National) Malick’s The Tree of Life and Mike Mills’ Beginners split the top award at this year’s Gotham Independent Film Awards, marking the official start of award season. ...more...
The Birth of a Nation gets a Blu-ray release
November 28, 2011
(Film, National) Just in time for the holidays, a new deluxe edition of D.W. Griffith’s landmark The Birth of a Nation is now available. ...more...
Potential labor strife looms in Hollywood
November 28, 2011
(Film, Los Angeles) Cracks in the relationship between Hollywood’s studios and the craftworkers’ union have begun to show, stemming from potential shortfalls in the pension and health care plans. ...more...
‘The Artist’ is a silent film – and might win Best Picture this year
November 23, 2011
(Film, National) Oscar buzz about a silent film? Yep: Michel Hazanavicius’ The Artist, which opens in limited release Friday. ...more...
The death of film is greatly exaggerated. Maybe.
November 22, 2011
(Film, National) A.O. Scott takes the long view on the future of film. ...more...
15 documentaries up for Oscar consideration
November 21, 2011
(Film, National) The Oscar documentary shortlist was released yesterday, and among the fifteen titles up for consideration is “Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory”, the third film about the recently-released West Memphis 3 – a release that might well have never occurred had the filmmakers not kept a spotlight shining on the case for nearly 20 years. ...more...
Afghan War doc Hell and Back Again at the SIFF Cinema
November 18, 2011
(Film, Seattle) The war in Afghanistan has been going on for so long – longer than Vietnam, longer than the Civil War, longer than WWII, longer even than the war that created this country in the first place – that there’s a danger of it turning to wallpaper, if it hasn’t already. ...more...
Arden Hills auteur specializes in 1950s-style B-movie horror films
November 14, 2011
(Film, Minneapolis) Horror filmmaker Chris Mihm is a gleeful throwback to the glory days of B-movies shot on a shoestring. ...more...
A conversation with John Waters
November 9, 2011
(Theater, Film, Indianapolis) Noted filmic madman John Waters brings his one-man show, This Filthy World, to the Madame Walker Theatre this Saturday at 7. ...more...
‘Cinema Komunisto’ tells the story of Tito’s movie obsession; director visiting Cleveland Museum of Art
November 9, 2011
(Film, Art Museums, Cleveland) Cinema Komunisto, Serbian director Mila Turajlic’s new documentary about the movie obsession of former Yugoslav strongman Tito, will screen at the Cleveland Museum of Art at 6:30. ...more...
A War Is Brewing in “Our Class”
November 9, 2011
(Theater, Philadelphia) The Wilma Theater kicks off its 2011-12 this week with Tadeusz Slobodzianek’s drama Our Class; the show runs through Nov. 13. ...more...
10 must-see films at Lone Star festival
November 9, 2011
(Film, Dallas/Ft. Worth) The Star-Telegram‘s Christopher Kelly details ten must-see films at the Fifth Annual Lone Star International Film Festival, which begins tonight. ...more...
‘Diner’ cast and crew reuniting in Baltimore
November 8, 2011
(Film, Baltimore) The cast and crew of the seminal Barry Levinson film Diner will reunite next month in Baltimore to celebrate the film’s 30th anniversary. ...more...
18 animated features submitted for consideration in Oscar race
November 7, 2011
(Film, National) Eighteen animated films have thus far been submitted for Oscar consideration, which could lead to the field expanding from three nominees to five. ...more...
Art organizations seek strategies for survival
November 7, 2011
(Arts, National) Robert Lynch, president of the Americans for the Arts advocacy group, lays out the reasons why public funding for the arts is, in fact, beneficial. ...more...
Give ‘Anonymous’ failing history grade
November 4, 2011
(Film, Theater, National) Pittsburgh Post-Gazette theater critic Christopher Rawson takes the new Shakespeare conspiracy theory film Anonymous to task. ...more...
A Filmmaker Wants to Help Others Use Product Placement
October 31, 2011
(Film, National) At the DOC NYC festival tomorrow, “Super Size Me” director Morgan Spurlock will be among those announcing the formation of Launch PAD, a program designed to help documentary filmmakers finance their work through product placement. ...more...
David Lynch: Mild at Heart
October 26, 2011
(Film, Objets d’Art, National) Filmmaker David Lynch has a new album, Crazy Clown Time, due out Nov. 8. He also very much likes going to the dentist. ...more...
