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 Blogs We Love At The Obenson Report. From the post:"So, there you have it! A ridiculous 6 films out of 300 (2%), released during the first 6 months of 2008, and every single one of them exists somewhere between "garbage" and "average," although I'd say most fall closer towards the former."More ...
posted to DIY Filmmaker Sujewa on Sat, 05 Jul 2008 07:13:00 +0000
At the end of this month, Fri 25 - Sun 27, I'll be heading back to NYC to interview bloggers for The Indie Film Bloggers doc. Any NYC based indie film bloggers (also indie filmmakers who might want to share their opinions re: blogs, also others who are deeply interested in indie film & indie film blogs) who are interested in participating in the doc can ...
posted to DIY Filmmaker Sujewa on Sat, 05 Jul 2008 06:45:00 +0000
Gonzo director Alex Gibney talks about what makes him feel like Gandalf, and the search for the American Dream.
Gerard Depardieu goes to the dungeon.
Dragging the Hitchcock out of Mad Men.
LAFF: Heaven Wants Out, Trinidad and Thing With No Name
Metropolis edges towards a landmark restoration.
Plot songs: classic style, Will Smith style.
Who needs critics when we’ve got [...]
posted to SpoutBlog on Fri, 04 Jul 2008 17:33:05 +0000
Have you seen Hancock? Help us work out if Will Smith's latest is more zero than hero
posted to Guardian Unlimited: Arts blog - film on Fri, 04 Jul 2008 17:30:00 +0000
I think I like the More 4 trailer for the Kubrick season better.
posted to Movie City Indie on 2008-07-04T16:14:29-08:00
Need some more blogs to read? Then check out The Top 100 Liberal Arts Professor Blogs. "Our own" (meaning, from the indie film related blog world) Chuck Tryon is on the list; congrats Chuck.- Sujewa
posted to DIY Filmmaker Sujewa on Fri, 04 Jul 2008 16:13:00 +0000
That it is, in many, many ways. "Finding," by Guy Davenport, by way of Wyatt Mason. The most obviously film-related bits surface about a third of the way in - but read on, see what else you find....
posted to GreenCine Daily on 2008-07-04T16:07:34-08:00
Check it out at The Obenson Report, funny.- Sujewa
posted to DIY Filmmaker Sujewa on Fri, 04 Jul 2008 16:02:00 +0000
Remember that scene in There Will Be Blood where HW gives Daniel a haircut? Of course not - they snipped it out. Now you can watch it here
posted to Guardian Unlimited: Arts blog - film on Fri, 04 Jul 2008 14:30:00 +0000
Why do cinephiles regard Manoel de Oliveira so highly, you may find yourself wondering as you begin reading Jonathan Rosenbaum major piece on the "Classical Modernist" in the new issue of Film Comment. The weaknesses, after all, are laid...
posted to GreenCine Daily on 2008-07-04T13:22:51-08:00
In Kabluey, Scott Prendergast "assembles an assortment of unappealing characters, an exhausted setup (spiritual emptiness in McMansion land, ho-hum) and every conceivable anxiety-inducer known to late-00s Americans - joblessness, war, credit-card debt, menial labor, economic turmoil, live offspring -...
posted to GreenCine Daily on 2008-07-04T13:11:19-08:00
Three films for under a fiver? You can't even get that kind of deal on a weekday in Thanet. But in France, La Fête du Cinéma is an annual fixture
posted to Guardian Unlimited: Arts blog - film on Fri, 04 Jul 2008 12:30:00 +0000
The annual Screenwriter's festival has come to and end. I met up with two attendees who have made huge leaps forward
posted to Guardian Unlimited: Arts blog - film on Fri, 04 Jul 2008 12:15:00 +0000
Even a small sketch revue stars comedy greats in this town - raise the bar any higher and I'm going to need an oxygen mask
posted to Guardian Unlimited: Arts blog - film on Fri, 04 Jul 2008 12:15:00 +0000
I am not one of these people that thinks that all deaths leave the world a poorer place. While I am against the death penalty, I am not above taking a little pleasure in the death of particularly vile people and today is no different. Sometimes I feel a little guilty about such pleasure taking, but not today. Today marks the death of someone who cause such misery in his life that his passing is cause for a massive exhale of relief.
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posted to The Rabbi Report on Fri, 04 Jul 2008 11:46:08 -0500
This week's round-up of the blogs finds action audiences being insulted over the fourth wall, while M Night Shymyalan loses out to The Supremes
posted to Guardian Unlimited: Arts blog - film on Fri, 04 Jul 2008 10:30:00 +0000
WALL-E = Mad Max for kids and find the next Herzog on YouTube
posted to SpoutBlog on Thu, 03 Jul 2008 22:30:18 +0000
Are you aware that Will Smith has actually written a plot song for all of his movies? OK, he hasn't, but here's a list that imagines that he has.
posted to SpoutBlog on Thu, 03 Jul 2008 21:15:52 +0000
Check it out here. From the article:"But the festival's breaking news comes courtesy of its premieres of new efforts, such as Mr. Spooner's feature "White Lies, Black Sheep" and Jennifer Sharp's "I'm Through With White Girls." Both films, as per the impetus of the festival itself, center around characters who don't fit convenient notions of how someone is supposed to be "black." In "White Lies,"...
posted to DIY Filmmaker Sujewa on Thu, 03 Jul 2008 21:06:00 +0000
Blogs We HouseI like this single, from the band's upcoming album Bits, but there's also something really compelling to me about a Brooklyn band named Oxford Collapse and a song called "The Birthday Wars," on this weekend. It helps that the song is all heart and harmony. Check out "The Birthday Wars" by Oxford Collapse....
posted to Matt Dentler's Blog | Jul 05, 2008 @ 02:43
It's a quiet weekend in the city. It feels like most of the residents skipped town for 4th of July vacations. Not me. After a nice day of BBQ: New York Style, it was time to watch the spectacular 4th of July fireworks show. The rain started to fall just as the fireworks started to light up the sky. My...
posted to Matt Dentler's Blog | Jul 05, 2008 @ 02:01
"Hey girls, you know what I love? Back bacon, draconian anti-pornography laws, and living in a welfare state! Go Habs!" "Hollywood" shamelessly continues its tradition of outsourcing the American image, showing unprecedented gall in releasing the Abigail Breslin vehicle...
posted to Reverse Shot | Jul 04, 2008 @ 12:46
I am back on the mainland, I've just been too scattered to post (I need to take care of the blog that pays the rent first and foremost, if you know what I'm saying). Anyway, the trip to Kauai was...
posted to "Boredom at Its Boredest" by Michael Tully | Jul 04, 2008 @ 11:22
Enzian's got plenty of them to brighten your cultural calendar beginning this 4th of July weekend and continuing through next week. Despite our single screen status, we never stop trying to make our programming as diverse as possible. Beginning its...
posted to Enzian Theater | Jul 03, 2008 @ 19:38
A thriller wrapped around a love story, this French film directed by Guillaume Canet, has something for everyone (if you don't mind some violence). A briard in a key role is reason enough to recommend this film, if you're a dog-aholic like me.
posted to Week of Wonders | Jul 03, 2008 @ 12:50
This sounds like a great weekend of live music in NYC: Coming very soon to Coney Island is the annual Siren Music Festival, hosted by The Village Voice. It's a free all-day event, happening July 19, from Noon to 9 p.m. The bill includes Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks, Broken Social Scene, The Helio Sequence, Beach House, Annuals, The Dodos,...
posted to Matt Dentler's Blog | Jul 03, 2008 @ 12:06
What does it mean for our independent film world that the best film from Sundance 2008 is self-distributing? Has the indie infrastructure failed Lance Hammer's "Ballast"? Well, it's more complicated than that, as Hammer told me for this indieWIRE article, "'Ballast' Steadies Course Alone" -- mainly because his budget was probably more than the film could withstand in the marketplace. But Hammer also has an important point, independent of the financial real...
posted to Anthony Kaufman's blog | Jul 03, 2008 @ 10:04
There are many artists whose works make me think about the meaning of life, but Salvador Dali has always been my favorite painter because he makes a convincing case for how it all makes no sense. I've had fewer...
posted to Screen Rush | Jul 03, 2008 @ 01:30
What, the current climate of indie film business got you down? Reading a lot of this, this, and this? Isn't this supposed to be summer, the season of movie-loving and movie-consuming? If you're tired of reading countless articles detailing how the indie film business is broken, take comfort. Here's a blog post that is all about being positive. As indie...
posted to Matt Dentler's Blog | Jul 03, 2008 @ 01:14
One could surmise the mediocrity of Diminished Capacity from reading the synopsis alone: Cooper (Matthew Broderick), a small-town-boy-made-good in the big city but lately suffering from the lasting effects of a serious concussion, heads back home to visit his...
posted to Reverse Shot | Jul 02, 2008 @ 21:09
Given the option of seeing Hellboy II or Hancock the other day, I chose the latter -- not because I was anticipating it more (quite the opposite actually, but I'll see the new Hellboy eventually), but because early reviews...
posted to Screen Rush | Jul 02, 2008 @ 19:38
The view from my window, yup. A film festival unlike any other, Bergmanvecken (or Bergman Week), now in its fifth year in operation and its first incarnation since the death of the man at its center last July, is...
posted to Reverse Shot | Jul 02, 2008 @ 15:30
Shining a Light on a Forgotten Film New Rolling Stones concert film brings back memories of Ladies and Gentlemen By Steven Rosen (This originally ran in Cincinnati CityBeat) In Shine a Light, Martin Scorsese's new IMAX film featuring the...
posted to Steven Rosen | Jul 02, 2008 @ 12:57
With the official news this week that Tartan Films is no more, I'd like to personally send my thanks and sincere sadness to all those involved with the company. I programmed many a film of theirs during my time at SXSW, including Oldboy, which is still a modern classic. In honor of it and them, behold a (warning: violent) scene...
posted to Matt Dentler's Blog | Jul 02, 2008 @ 11:02
Sacha Baron Cohen + Will Ferrell = Sherlock Holmes + Dr. Watson. Believe it. According to Cinematical: "Comedy flick gold-miner Judd Apatow is (of course) on board as a producer, but the director has not been specified just yet. (Nor has the name of the movie, come to think of it.) The screenplay comes from Etan Cohen, he of (still...
posted to Matt Dentler's Blog | Jul 02, 2008 @ 10:28
I was waiting to see Wall-E to post this, and gladly saw it yesterday so I feel like a half-way best of list is warranted (in EW-inspired form). I'm skipping the commentary, because figuring out this order was work enough,...
posted to The Lost Boy. | Jul 02, 2008 @ 0:41
In the wake of the aforementioned Mark Gill column, I've thought about Barry Levinson's $20 million independent production "What Just Happened" more than once (recently unveiled one-sheet above). How fascinating that the film was supposed to take Sundance '08 by storm, but then never sold. I don't recall anyone calling the film a flop, but none of the buyers...
posted to eugonline | Jul 01, 2008 @ 21:20
That Mark Gill article continues to make the rounds, landing as the subject of David Carr's Monday media business column in the New York Times. indieWIRE even got a shout-out....
posted to eugonline | Jul 01, 2008 @ 21:05
Years ago the Florida Film Festival set up the next ten years of Spring festival dates based on avoiding any conflicts with both Easter Sunday and the incredibly popular (and established) Winter Park Art Festival. So I got a huge...
posted to Enzian Theater | Jul 01, 2008 @ 19:20
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