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The Girlfriend Experience

27 November 2009 9:12 AM, PST | Pure Movies | See recent Pure Movies news »

The Girlfriend Experience is one of the more courageous and challenging films to come out this year, and the fact that it Soderbergh’s can give us all hope. An odd beast, Steven Soderbergh; an odd, Janus-faced movie beast.  An Oscar-winning director (nominated twice in the same year—a feat only equalled once before, in 1938, by Michael Curtiz, who didn’t win) who pumps out the mall-pleasers like Ocean’s 11, 12, and 13 (though the mall was, apparently, less pleased with 12), Out of Sight, and—let’s face it—Erin Brockovich.  He also has a doppelganger, his Imp of the Perverse, that turns out uncompromising, indie fare like Schizopolis, the brilliant Full Frontal, and the even more brilliant Bubble.  But it isn’t a case of Robert Altman Syndrome (a director, God rest his soul, seemingly bent on immolating his career and repeatedly swallowing a grenade—like Prêt-à-Porter after The Player and »

- Garth Twa

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Crashville: The Risky Route To Oscar Glory

6 November 2009 10:00 PM, PST | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »

In March 2006 the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences sprung one of its annual surprises by awarding the best picture Oscar to Crash, rather than Ang Lee’s acclaimed gay cowboy drama, Brokeback Mountain. At the time it looked as though racism and multiple vehicular pile-ups had trumped homosexuality in the battle of the “hot button” issue movies. But perhaps the Academy was belatedly acknowledging the kind of ambitious, densely plotted, multi-character dramas made famous by the great Robert Altman. From 1975’s Nashville, to Short Cuts, Prêt à Porter and his 2006 swansong A Prairie Home Companion, Altman allowed audiences to immerse themselves in the cinematic equivalent of a book of short stories. Writer Alissa Quart has characterised these films with multiple intersecting plotlines as “hyperlink movies”, in which, “information, character, and action co-exist without hierarchy”. Now I’m a fan of Altman and I loved Paul Thomas Anderson’s, »

- Susannah

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Birthday Suit: Shapeshifters

6 November 2009 12:48 PM, PST | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »

Sing your favorite stars a happy birthday in the privacy of your own home.

Maybe not out loud.

Happy birthday to Ethan, Rebecca and Mike

11/06

Today's filmic / famous birthdays.

If it's your own birthday shout it out. It's your day, after all.

1882 Thomas H Ince actor who became a lifeguard then an actor again until he was a pioneering film director who became a studio mogul until he morphed into Cary Elwes having an affair with Kirsten Dunst ... and then died mysteriously.

1903 June Marlowe lovely brunette who became the Warner Bros proclaimed "Most Beautiful Girl On Screen" and eventually settled in as Our Miss Crabtree

1931 Mike Nichols Second City Improv founder who became a comedian then morphed into one of the most celebrated film directors of the second half of the 20th century. The filmography is kind of uneven, though, right?

poll by twiigs.com

1946 Sally Field a little Pasadena »

- NATHANIEL R

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Matthew Modine: The Hollywood Interview

2 November 2009 10:20 AM, PST | The Hollywood Interview | See recent The Hollywood Interview news »

Matthew Modine: Better Angels

By

Alex Simon

Matthew Modine has been something of an iconoclast most of his working life. After being groomed for ‘80s teen idol status in early films such as Private School and Vision Quest, Modine was also one of the first actors of his generation, along with Sean Penn, to take on riskier projects, such as Robert Altman's Streamers, Alan Parker’s Birdy, Gillian Armstrong’s Mrs. Soffel, and Alan J. Pakula’s Orphans. It was his lead role as the cynical Marine Private Joker in Stanley Kubrick’s Vietnam epic Full Metal Jacket that put Modine into the pantheon of young actors who were more than just pretty faces and knowing winks at the camera. This, after all, was the young man who turned down the lead in Top Gun, arguably the prototypical ‘80s blockbuster, due to its cold war politics. From the beginning, »

- The Hollywood Interview.com

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Will Ferrell To Announce That Everything Must Go

16 October 2009 4:10 AM, PDT | Screenrush | See recent Screenrush news »

Will Ferrell has agreed to star in the low budget indie film, Everything Must Go, directed by first time feature director Dan Rush. Rush is best known for directing commercials with comic inclinations. The first time feature director had numerous offers presented to him in the past but chose instead to work on his own script, which he based on a short story by Raymond Carver. Carver's work had previously been adapted by Robert Altman for Short Cuts.

Ferrell plays a man who loses his job and then gets locked out of the house by his wife. When she throws out all of his belongings, he decides to spend the next four days on the lawn trying to sell them.

Marty Bowen, who will produce the film along with Wyck Godfrey through their Temple Hill Productions, said: "Will is one of the best at making an audience sympathize with a character's ordeal, »

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Everything Must Go for Will Ferrell

15 October 2009 9:00 PM, PDT | E! Online | See recent E! Online - Movies and Television news »

No, the comic actor isn't talking about his last couple of movie roles. Will Ferrell has signed on to star in the indie film Everything Must Go, according to Variety. Go is being written and directed by Dan Rush, who has directed commercials before this, his first feature. Based on a story by the late Raymond Carver, the film is about a man who loses his job and then finds his wife has kicked him out and tossed all his stuff on the front lawn. His response? Yard sale. Sounds promising, and we can only guess that a quality low-budget movie based on the work of a great American writer (who also provided the source material for Robert Altman's Short Cuts) might be the... »

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Everything Must Go for Will Ferrell

15 October 2009 9:00 PM, PDT | E! Online | See recent E! Online news »

No, the comic actor isn't talking about his last couple of movie roles. Will Ferrell has signed on to star in the indie film Everything Must Go, according to Variety. Go is being written and directed by Dan Rush, who has directed commercials before this, his first feature. Based on a story by the late Raymond Carver, the film is about a man who loses his job and then finds his wife has kicked him out and tossed all his stuff on the front lawn. His response? Yard sale. Sounds promising, and we can only guess that a quality, low-budget movie based on the work of a great American writer (who also provided the source material for Robert Altman's Short Cuts) might be the... »

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Tiff Shorts Roundup: From Night Mayors to Runaways

22 September 2009 4:15 PM, PDT | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »

Toronto might have its own short film extravaganza -- the Worldwide Short Film Festival -- a week rife with pithy pieces of cinema. But every year, just a few months later, there's a second serving at Tiff with the collection Short Cuts Canada.

This year, the Nfb (National Film Board of Canada) had a bunch of shorts in the mix, and when I got a handful in the mail, it was like an Oscar-led explosion. Talent abounds in these films. That's not entirely surprising considering the fact that we've got the latest from Oscar-winner Chris Landreth and Oscar-nominee Cordell Barker, plus a slew of other notable talent. Talent, I must say, that's topped with Night Mayor, the short the Nfb commissioned Guy Maddin to do as part of the board's 70th anniversary.

Read on for the details of Night Mayor, Vive the Rose, The Spine, and Runaway.Filed under: Festival Reports, »

- Monika Bartyzel

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TIFF09—Covered

31 August 2009 12:58 PM, PDT | Twitch | See recent Twitch news »

There are 56 definitions offered for the word “cover” in the Random House Unabridged Dictionary (2nd edition, 1993), with the 13th definition applied to journalism (where a journalist is assigned to “cover” a story) and the 51st definition applied to music (where a musician is said to “cover” another’s song).  Immediately following the musical definition, is one for mathematics wherein a “cover” refers to “a collection of sets having the property that a given set is contained in the union of the sets in the collection.”  That 52nd definition—along with its journalistic and musical variants—could equally apply to John Greyson’s experimental short Covered, which is at once intricately journalistic, musical and mathematic.

Originally slated in Tiff’s Short Cuts Canada program and billed as “an inspired experimental documentary on the violent closing of the first Queer Sarajevo Festival”, Greyson has pulled Covered from the official selection at Tiff »

- Michael Guillen

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Khanna offers a Slice of Heaven at Toronto International Film Festival 2009

27 August 2009 12:55 AM, PDT | Filmicafe | See recent Filmicafe news »

Making its world premiere screening at the 2009 Toronto International Film FestivalÂ.s Short Cuts Canada program, A HINDUÂ.S Indictment Of Heaven is a visual interpretation of a woman forced to choose between heaven and heart. This stunning film has been specially selected to screen in conjunction with Machotaildrop on Saturday September 12th, 2009.   A dramatic comedy at its core, A HINDUÂ.S Indictment Of Heaven is a story of betrayal and lost love.  Returning director Dev Khanna (Plums & Prunes Tiff 07) has once again created a thoroughly entertaining, yet thought provoking piece of film making.Â.The aim of this film is to question clichéd notions of Â.Soul MateÂ. and Â.Eternal HappinessÂ., said Khanna. Â.Are we able to truly love only one person in our lives? The film questions the idea of Â.Eternal BlissÂ. and Â.Reunion with Loved OnesÂ..  Being a Hindu, my faith does not have these ideas. »

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More Tiff! More titles!

4 August 2009 12:37 PM, PDT | QuietEarth.us | See recent QuietEarth news »

More for Vanguard, Real to Reel, Special Presentations, Galas, Short cuts, and Contemporary World Cinema which includes the World premier of Reginald Harkema's latest, Leslie, My Name is Evil. That link has the 2nd promo trailer (we used to have two) but we were asked by Reggie to remove the first. We also have Sook-Yin Lee's Year of the Carnivore which I've been keeping an eye on for some time. Also playing is The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus.

Check out the full list of added films after the break!

Canada First!

Year of the Carnivore Sook-Yin Lee, BC

World Premiere

Year of the Carnivore is a romantic-comedy-drama about a girl with an unrequited crush on a boy who thinks she's bad in bed, so she goes out to get more 'experience.'

All Fall Down Philip Hoffman, On

North American Premiere

Local legend Philip Hoffman's formally adventurous »

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$9.99

31 July 2009 4:29 AM, PDT | The Scorecard Review | See recent Scorecard Review news »

$9.99

Directed by: Tatia Rosenthal

Cast: (voices) Geoffrey Rush, Anthony Lapaglia, Samuel Johnson

Running Time: 1 hr 20 mins

Rating: R

Release Date: July 31, 2009

Plot: In this stop-motion animated film, denizens of an apartment building live interconnected lives. Their individual stories make up a mosaic about the choices and options life has to offer.

Who’s It For? Fans of animation, or just well-crafted films in general.

Expectations: I was hoping for a good story, what I had seen of the animation in stills looked pretty interesting.

Scorecard (0-10)

Actors:

Geoffrey Rush as The Angel: I didn’t realize whose voice I was listening to until the film was over and the credits rolled. Perhaps it was because he was speaking in his normal voice, aka with an Australian accent. Regardless Rush does a great job as “The Angel,” a mysterious winged man who may or may not have supernatural origins. There’s »

- Megan Lehar

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Movie Review: Fragments

30 July 2009 2:59 PM, PDT | MovieRetriever | See recent MovieRetriever news »

Jul 30, 2009 Ensemble dramas about the ripple effect of tragedy and fate can be a tricky minefield of screenwriting clichés. They can lead to great rewards, but the risk for failure is also high. For every Magnolia or Short Cuts, there are several disastrous efforts that rarely see the light of day outside of the festival circuit. One such effort is just barely seeing the light of day as Fragments (formerly known as Winged Creatures on the festival circuit ... a much better name) is opening in New York today and Los Angeles next week with ...Read more at MovieRetriever.com »

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Shrink Star Saffron Burrows: 'That's Probably Too Personal to Ask'

22 July 2009 5:30 AM, PDT | Movieline | See recent Movieline news »

Saffron Burrows is not a beleagured, once-famous actress. She just plays one in the movies -- in Shrink, specifically, opening Friday and featuring Kevin Spacey as Henry Carter, a pot-loving therapist to the stars who battles listlessness, grief and professional dereliction while dealing with a fraught cross-section of Hollywood talent. There's horndog action star Jack (Robin Williams), Ocd-addled agent Patrick (Dallas Roberts), motherless teen and pro bono case Jemma (Keke Palmer), screenwriter godbrother Jeremy (Mark Webber), and, of course, Kate Abramson (Burrows), the gorgeous movie star better known for her failing marriage than her most recent hit.

In the spirit of Short Cuts, Magnolia, Crash and other ensemble yarns of Angelenos in crisis, director Jonas Pate ties them all together, with Carter's own quest for catharsis leading the way. The lovely Burrows talked to Movieline this week about the emotional costs of fame, the advantages of being English in Hollywood, »

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Fangoria Week in Review 7/19/2009

18 July 2009 11:29 PM, PDT | Fangoria | See recent Fangoria news »

Time to close the books on another week of torture and mayhem here in the Fango dungeon. The horror was hot, the rock was hard, and the exclusives were flowing daily.

Let's take a look back at the past seven days worth of Fangoria news, features, reviews, blogs and more in your Week in Review for 7/19/2009...

Fearful Features:

Exclusive: Fantasia/Book Of Blood interview video! Exclusive: Lisa Vidal discusses "Dark Mirror" and more... Fangoria's Comic Screams Interview with Milo Ventimiglia Fangoria's Comic Screams Interview with Rick Loverd Ghastly Reviews:

Hellboy: The Fire Wolves (Book Review) Back Catalogue #3: Blue Underground (DVD Reviews) Meg: Hell’S Aquarium (Book Review) Modern Gentlemen #2 (Comic Review) I Know How Many Runs You Scored Last Summer (DVD Review) Freddy Vs. Jason Vs. Ash: The Nightmare Warriors – Issue #1 (Comic Review) Berserker – Issues #0 & 1 (Comic Reviews) Horsemen (DVD Review) Giallo (Film Review) Bloody Blogs:

Short Cuts #5: The »

- no-reply@fangoria.com (James Zahn)

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Short Cuts #5: The List One

14 July 2009 11:49 AM, PDT | Fangoria | See recent Fangoria news »

If you haven’t already realized from the existence of this blog, I love short films. I love watching them, I love making them, I love reading about them, I love everything about them. I truly believe that they are the more difficult to make than their feature-length brethren; they have to tell a complete story in under an hour, and in many cases less than a quarter of that. This is why I am always thrilled when directors feature their (or others’) shorts among the DVD supplements of their movies. Below you’ll find a few of my favorites.

Criticized (on the Seed DVD)

Yes, I agree that Uwe Boll is the Ed Wood of our time, but like Wood, he has excellent taste in other people’s films. When he chose to include Richard Gale’s Criticized, one of the best genre shorts ever, on his Seed disc, »

- no-reply@fangoria.com (Logan DeSisto)

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What to see at this year’s Fantasia Film Festival pt.3

1 July 2009 12:25 AM, PDT | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »

Fantasia Festival is North America’s premiere (and largest) genre film festival. It is also my favorite film festival and so I could not wait to share the highlights of this years line up. Below is just some of the films we will be reviewing on our upcoming podcasts. The Children - North American Premiere UK Dir: Tom Shankland A holiday weekend turns into a nightmarish battle for survival when children inexplicably begin to slaughter their parents. Far more frightening than Children Of The Corn or the bulk part of other killer kids pics that have preceded it, this British powerhouse shocker ranks among the best horror film offerings of recent years. The Children inverts unconditional love with an impact that will freeze your blood. Would you be able to protect yourself if the people you loved wanted to cut you to pieces without any sense or reason? The film's terrors are character-driven, »

- Ricky

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Fantasia film fest 2009 lineup lookin' lovely!

30 June 2009 2:09 PM, PDT | QuietEarth.us | See recent QuietEarth news »

Ok, so I'm lazy.. I copy and pasted the press release, which is after the break, and we have reviews of quite a few of the films playing, including White Lightnin', Left Bank, Blood River, Cryptic, Deadgirl, The Horsemen, I Sell the Dead.. with Kaifeck Murder coming soon (once I can figure out what to write).

Movies I'm really interested in seeing: French Pa flick Mutants, Smash Cut, Possibility of an Island, Immaculate Conception of Little Dizzle, and Thirst.

But alas, I won't be there. Instead, a friend of ours will be providing some reviews for the week he is there, so everyone give a big thanks to DirtyRobot! Woop!

Check out the film greatness after the break! Oh, and there's more to come...

The past 12 months have been a treasure trove for sharp, individualistic visions of the unusual. Keep your hands on the bars as we give you a »

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Fangoria Week in review 6/14/2009

13 June 2009 10:00 PM, PDT | Fangoria | See recent Fangoria news »

Time to close out one week, and open the books for a fresh one. The battle for horror supremacy rages on and Fangoria continues to fight the undead army, leaving yet another pile of mangled flesh in the smoldering wreckage behind us.

Let's take a look back at the past seven days worth of Fangoria news, features, reviews, blogs and more.

Fangoria Entertainment Updates & Weekend Of Horrors Aftermath:

Fangoria Radio creates Urban Pop Culture Video: Woh NYC ’09: H.G. Lewis - The Panel Woh NYC ’09: Guillermo Del Toro and Chuck Hogan speak! Woh NYC ’09: Dario Argento Comes to New York (with Video!) Woh NYC '09 Video: The Trick 'R Treat Panel! Woh NYC '09 Video: David Hess & Fred Lincoln (Nsfw) Woh NYC '09 Video: Warrington Gillette - Friday The 13th Part 2 Woh NYC '09 Video: Kane Hodder from Friday The 13th Woh NYC '09 Video: Judah Friedlander »

- no-reply@fangoria.com (James Zahn)

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Short Cuts #4: Insatiable

12 June 2009 5:48 PM, PDT | Fangoria | See recent Fangoria news »

If you were lucky enough to attend Fango’s recently wrapped Weekend of Horrors, you hopefully were also fortunate enough to check out the phenomenal short Insatiable, which screened on Sunday. As much about vampirism and fetishism as it is about a dwindling marriage, the flick is a rare silent pleasure, harking back to the days when creating films was more about experimentation than making money.

“Insatiable really started out of my frustration from trying to sell a feature script of mine in 2004,” writer/director Scott W. Perry reveals. “I kept on inquiring to many production companies looking for scripts, but the answers were all the same: no vampires, because they’ve been done to death. I had just left a job at A&E, where one of my duties was to watch their prime-time programming before it went to air for quality control. Now, it was reality shit, but »

- no-reply@fangoria.com (Logan DeSisto)

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