Monthly Archives: June 2010
There is much to appreciate about Woody Allen, but his frank confessions coming out now really do reveal much about the artist, art in general and his outlook on life, which, I find, far preferable to anyone else’s. ¬†Says Woody about his career in this Times UK article: Out of 40 films I should have 30 masterpieces, eight noble failures and two embarrassments,...
For the Love of Movies: The Story of American Film Criticism “is the first documentary to dramatize the rich saga of American movie reviewing.” Offering an insiders view of the critics profession, For the Love of Movies screened a couple of weeks ago at the 10th Annual DeadCenter Film Festival in Oklahoma City. Earlier this year Brandeis Film Professor Thomas...
Candy Darling & Joan Rivers Ignite P-Town By Stephen Holt Having just returned from the sunny Cape Cod shores of the Provincetown International Film Festival, I can safely say that two blonde divas divided the excitement at PIFF this year. They were the late Andy Warhol Superstar Candy Darling and the very much alive, the liveliest wire of them all, Joan Rivers! ...
Coming Soon spoke with Despicable Me producer Christopher Meledandri who says The Adaams Family might be returning to their New Yorker roots in a stop-motion feature from Tim Burton: Though he stressed that the project is in the very early stages, he did confirm that the film is planned for stop motion and not for computer animation. He added that the project will be...