Indie Wire has annouced the Winners and Losers for the Specialty (aka Independent) Film World: 1. Sunshine Cleaning (Overture Films) – $12,055,108 2. Away We Go (Focus Features) – $6,077,303 3. The Class (Sony Pictures Classics) – $3,766,810 4. The Brothers Bloom (Summit Entertainm[...]
Posts Tagged ‘News’
July 8th, 2009 - 5:43 pm § in Filmmaking
Isabelle Huppert on Acting
Isabelle Huppert, best known to me for her appearance in Michael Haneke films such as the Piano Teacher and the Time of the Wolf, gave an interesting interview at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival this week. She received the festival’s Crystal Globe this year, an annual award given [...]
July 5th, 2009 - 10:43 pm § in Reviews
Great Movies: Last Tango In Paris (Bertolucci, 1972)
99% of people will never experience this sort of passion in their lives. Its mere presence makes them uncomfortable. When I left the theatre, I watched as the only couple I was with instinctively held hands, making small criticisms to cast off the demons brought forth by a film which by all standard[...]
July 2nd, 2009 - 3:32 pm § in Screenwriting
John August on Writing
I got an email yesterday that I still have time to submit my screenplay to the sundance screenwriting lab. I had tried to make the deadline on May 1st, but unfortunately that day turned out to be a national holiday in Berlin. John August has some very good advice in this post, especially about rewri[...]
June 22nd, 2009 - 9:38 am § in News
I need the eggs.
An excellent article by James D. Stern in Indie Wire over the weekend. In it he quotes the end of Annie Hall, one of my favorite films. At the end of the movie, as at the beginning, Allen uses a joke to explain what is happening in his life; “I thought of that old joke, [...][...]
January 16th, 2009 - 11:07 am § in News
Code Inconnu
Beginning with his “glaciation trilogy” Haneke has explored the theme of dehumanization through media and consumerism. I found Code Inconnu difficult and pedantic, but there was one brilliant scene. In one continuous shot Anne (Juliette Binoche) and Georges get into a heated argument whi[...]
January 16th, 2009 - 10:10 am § in Reviews
Great Movies: Faces (Cassavetes, 1968)
“Nobody has the time to be vulnerable to each other.” I’m sick for the first time in two years, so I have an opportunity to be a little lazy and watch a lot of movies. I finally got a chance to watch John Cassavetes’s Faces, which is unlike anything I’ve ever seen. The [...]