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HAPPY THANKSGIVING, AMERICA!!!
— Michael Tully
Television
A Home for the Holidays
If you haven’t seen it yet, you now have a much easier chance to catch up with Gary Hustwit’s Objectified , which makes its television debut on PBS’ Independent Lens tonight (11/24). I wrote this about the film in May, when it opened at the IFC Center for a theatrical run:
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Television
Independent Lens
Cinetic FilmBuff has partnered with Hulu for FilmBuff Shorts , a channel devoted exclusively to—you guessed it—movies of the shorter variety. The plan is for new titles to be added on a consistent basis, but for now, there are eight to choose from. Here are some personal favorites (though ...
Celebrities
Twilight
Chris Penn
Brittany Murphy
MoMA’s Department of Film and Filmmaker Magazine have joined forces for the fifth year in a row to sponsor the “ Best Film Not Playing At A Theater Near You ” award. Though the winner won’t be announced until Monday, November 30th, at IFP ’s Gotham Awards , this ...
Television
Pamela Anderson
Filmmaker-turned-author Jon Reiss has just released his new book, Think Outside the Box Office: The Ultimate Guide to Film Distributing and Marketing in the Digital Era , which aims to put the current independent film distribution crisis in better perspective. Having been through the wringer ...
Movies
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If you’ve been paying attention to American independent
cinema in the first decade of the 21st century,...
then the name David Wingo will do more than just ring a bell. Wingo’s resume as a feature film composer could serve as its own primer ...
New Ola Podrida Video/Album
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When it arrived in 1994, Steve James’ Hoop Dreams was praised as an instant classic. Both critics and audiences alike rejoiced over this epic three-hour documentary portrait of Arthur Agee and William Gates, two African-American teenagers in inner city Chicago who, over the course of ...
Celebrities
Roger Ebert
As the decade winds to a close and I begin the nerdily fun process of making a pile of ‘best of’ lists, I’m confident that Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Tropical Malady will show up when everything has been finalized. Tropical Malady is a haunting fever dream of a ...
Movies
Based on a short story by celebrated Southern author William Gay, Scott Teems’ feature-length directorial debut, That Evening Sun , is executed with the grace and precision of a veteran. The film stars Hal Holbrook as Abner Meecham, an 80-year-old farmer who escapes the old folks home ...
Celebrities
Alice in Wonderland
Mia Wasikowska
Sissy Spacek
Tim Burton
Gone with the Wind
Dixie Carter
Has that time of the month come yet again? ‘Tas, by golly. Get to queuein’ , cinemisters and cinemisses:
***ISSUE #5: NOVEMBER ‘09***
Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple (2006) — Stanley Nelson’s brilliantly executed documentary shows how one man can ...
Celebrities
Nelson Mandela
Paul Rudd
The Soup
Dustin Hoffman
Harrison Ford
Chuck
Tonight’s “Monday Night Special” edition of the Thom Powers and Raphaela Neihausen hosted Stranger Than Fiction series at the IFC Center features one of the most dizzyingly profound films of recent memory. Darius Marder’s Loot isn’t just proof that truth is ...
Movies
Sadly, I won’t be attending this year’s AFI Fest (October 30th-November 7th, 2009), for the lineup is jam-packed with some of the year’s most exciting new work. However, what makes the situation even more enticing this year is that the festival is providing free tickets for audiences (no, ...
Movies
The Fantastic Mr. Fox
Red Band
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Neil Patrick Harris
Push
If you didn’t know it was Halloween from the foliage, the pumpkins, and all that fake cobweb stuff that has turned the entire country into a veritable haunted house, a casual stroll past the marquees of most movie theaters in NYC this weekend will make that screamingly clear. It seems like just ...
Movies
AntiChrist
Stanley Kubrick
A Nightmare on Elm Street
Jake Gyllenhaal
Lars von Trier
Michael Douglas
I usually try not to just cut-and-paste press releases here, but that’s how this post is going down, so you’re gonna have to just deal with it, folks:
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Movies
Orlando Bloom
hammertonail.com - 28 days ago
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Dear cable television subscribers, If you haven’t seen
it yet, the time has finally come, for Alexander...
Olch’s The Windmill Movie premieres tonight—Wednesday, October 28th—at 8pm on HBO. Olch assembles footage shot by his deceased ...
The Windmill Movie Premieres on HBO
In tribute to Halloween, Maysles Institute ’s in-house lineup this week is filled with films that are painted in varying shades of horror. Tonight’s selection is the big standout, and not just because it screens so rarely and is unavailable on home video. Joel Demott’s 1980 ...
Celebrities
Diary
Jeff Bridges
hammertonail.com - 28 days ago
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Ti West isn’t even thirty years old, but
with his latest feature, The House of the Devil...
, he has already proven himself to be a maestro of the horror genre. After making two well received micro-budget features— The Roost and Trigger Man ...
A Conversation With Ti West
hammertonail.com - 29 days ago
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( Part of its new 30 For 30
series, Muhammad and Larry premieres on ESPN tonight—Tuesday, October...
27 th , 2009—at 8pm, followed by more airings on various ESPN channels over the next few months. Go here for details. ) One thing struck me while watching Albert Maysles and Bradley Kaplan’s ...
MUHAMMAD AND LARRY - One Hero Falls, Another Still Floats
