Your Blogger is having some computer issues this morning. While I get sorted, check out this blog post from Roger Ebert , in which he ponders the never ending Democratic primary in cinematic terms. “It must have been a species of torture for the anchors at CNN, who seemed caught in a Groundhog Day loop… The [...]

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A festival of fashion in cinema has got me thinking about the glorious tradition of screen sirens who dress to kill

Following the success of Iron Man, this week's film blogs have been talking about little besides comics. But I don't understand their appeal

Frank Miller of Dark Knight, Sin City and 300 fame is blogging about his directorial debut ...

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Saw this movie at MDFF last weekend, liked it a lot, sad story though - but very much worth checking out & thinking about & possibly doing something about.Trailer:

Check it out here. Good movie.- Sujewa

From Linear Reflections:"LR: How did this project come to fruition? If you could, please provide me with a rundown, start to finish, from your involvement.[Bronstein] I decided to make this film after I realized that I didn't want to wait around for other people to make projects. I wanted to make a film about female friendships that dealt with the issues of resentment, hostility and emotional manipulation...

From the Cinematical review of James Spooner's new movie White Lies, Black Sheep:"Director James Spooner, who was himself a black kid hanging in a white scene in his youth, brings his unique perspective to bear in telling this story of AJ's journey toward himself. Think that race doesn't matter to you, that you know all there is to know abou...

Check out the review here.- Sujewa

Of the four selections from the new issue of Film Comment up at the site, plus the four online exclusives, three pieces have a little or a lot to do with Germany. Reviewing Yella, "a modest, haunting, highly economical...

Just arrived in New York City - for those of you who haven't seen the huge breaking news of the past 48 hours: Warner Bros. (as has been rumored for weeks) has shuttered both Picturehouse (which released THE KING OF...

From The Criterion Site... May 8, 2008 We've got some exciting news for this fall: our first Blu-ray discs are coming! We've picked a little over a dozen titles from the collection for Blu-ray treatment, and we'll begin rolling them out in October. These new editions will feature glorious high-definition picture and sound, all the supplemental content of the DVD releases, and they will be priced to match our standard-def ...

Summit Entertainment is doing cartwheels. That's because they're already in production on a movie, Twilight, based on the first book in a trilogy by book phenom ...

And by best I mostly mean it's the most entertaining, exciting and enjoyable war films in years.

Harvey Weinstein, long a passionate Democratic supporter, is using his muscle in the party, reports CNN.com, to help his pal http://c...

You know... the three things I mostly do in this work are the criticizing of films, the analysis of the industry, and the seeking of insight into the people who make up this industry. When Picturehouse and Warner Indie shut down, a part of my job is to see what happened with clear eyes. But I also know and have worked with and have drunk with a bunch of people at both companies. I am also quite conscious that the "victims" of these kinds of shutdowns are not the people whose names...

The lost Anna Nicole Smith biopic surfaces on YouTube. And it's meta!!!

From the Why I Tour post at Kelley's blog:"I have been touring the US with my movies for 5 years. In the early years, I would fly in to a city, rent a car and do a giant loop around that state for 2 - 3 weeks, showing my films at media art centers, art house cinemas, and colleges and universities. I would end up back near the airport I had flown in to, return the car and fly home. On all of these trips I broke even....