AJ Schnack is talking up The Cove not being included (so far) in the Tokyo Film Fest lineup. The fest is funded by the Japanese government and is it so surprising they wouldn’t want the movie shown? There is some disagreement on it, however, and no one at the Tokyo Fest is every going to admit that they’d were given orders not to include the film. But what’s...
Monthly Archives: August 2009
Scott Feinberg isn’t working at the LA Times anymore but he’s gotten back on the horse anyway and has updated his predictions for the year on his blog. Here are his Best Pic projections. Invictus, gee, no pressure. Clint can take the heat, though. You have to admit, it’s kind of cool to contemplate the Big Ten this way: BEST PICTURE Projected Nominees [1]...
As much as we’ve talked about An Education here over the past few weeks, is it possible we haven’t featured the trailer yet? We ran an extended clip montage several weeks ago, but I stumbled across an official trailer by accident this morning so it’s time we took a look. Our friend Craig Kennedy at LiC who sees everything and isn’t that easy...
Widely reported a couple of days ago, David Fincher’s movie about the creation Facebook has been officially greenlit and will begin shooting in October on a budget of $47 million. The movie is based the book, The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook A Tale of Sex, Money, Genius and Betrayal. Here Aaron Sorkin talks about how quickly he became convinced...
Directed by Grant Heslov, starring George Clooney, Ewan McGregor, Kevin Spacey, Jeff Bridges, Rebecca Mader. Based on true events described in Jon Ronson’s 2004 book of the same title, “The Men Who Stare at Goats” involves a down-on-his-luck reporter (McGregor) who gets more than he bargains for when he meets a special forces agent (Clooney) who reveals...
(enlarge) More good news for The White Ribbon, as a day after it’s submitted as Germany’s entry for Best Foreign Film, it wins a prize for Best Film of the Year. (Period. Foreign or otherwise.) Awards by the F√©d√©ration Internationale de la Presse Cin√©matographique, recent winners of the FIPRESCI Best Film of the Year include There Will Be Blood,...