I was sorry to see this all dredged back up again. This site fell into the same trap back when Polanski’s The Pianist was up for Oscars. Many of those hellbent on punishing Polanski did not want to see him win any awards. They were here then and, it appears, they are here now. I now would like to put the whole thing to rest. This because of a particularly ugly email...
Monthly Archives: September 2009
Review: That Evening Sun (2009) by Jennifer Boulden If we all, as Thoreau wrote, live lives of quiet desperation, there are times in any life when the desperation comes to a head and ceases any pretense of quietude. The events in the small film That Evening Sun transpire at just such a time on a rural Tennessee farm gone to seed. Melodrama does not necessarily translate...
Debra Winger, Jury member for the Zurich Film Fest had this to say: The American thesp criticized Swiss authorities for their “philistine collusion” in arresting the helmer at Zurich Airport on Saturday on behalf of U.S. justice authorities, just before the festival was to honor him for lifetime achievement. “This fledgling festival has been unfairly...
We don’t often do this sort of thing here, but our friend and reader from the Philippines wrote and asked for help and aid. This is from a Google page set up to aid rescue efforts and gather donations and help – here you can find out how to help with money, etc.: On September 26, 2009, Typhoon Ondoy brought a month’s worth of rainfall to Metro Manila...
Three words explain why this trailer is worth a look: Jackie Earl Haley. These kinds of movies stopped being scary to me ages ago, and it’s not because I outgrew them. This looks pretty dang creepy and stylish. Also interesting to note the beboot was written by Wesley Strick — who wrote the adaptation for Scorsese’s Cape Fear. ...
Like all the other exceptional marketing we’ve seen for Where the Wild Things Are, the latest batch of TV spots are just splendid. There’s an extended promo running on Sundance Channel this week, but I haven’t been able to find a get a copy to embed yet. In the meantime, enjoy the 30-second spot above and 2 more after the cut. (How much do we love...
Slow crime day in Zurich? Academy-Award winning director Roman Polanski was taken into custody in Switzerland Saturday on a 31-year-old U.S. arrest warrant stemming from Polanski’s alleged unlawful sexual intercourse with a 13-year-old girl, organizers of the Zurich Film Festival said early Sunday morning. Polanski, who won a Best Director Oscar for “The Pianist”...
Not Oscar material and not intended to be. Posting this trailer out of respect for the Hughes brothers, Allen and Albert, and for those of us who would like to see Mad Max again but can longer stand the sight of Mel Gibson. I really really like the look of the cinematography here, shot by Oscar-nominee Don Burgess, with the Red One camera (which Soderbergh used to...
Maher to Moore: “I think this is your magnum opus.” And from Michael Moore’s email newsletter tonight: I’ve spent nearly two years on this new movie, “Capitalism: A Love Story,” and have poured my heart and soul into this project. Many early critics and viewers have called it my “best film yet.” That’s a hard call...