American Film Institute just named Pedro Almodóvar as its Guest Artistic Director at AFI FEST 2011. AFI FEST — celebrating its 25th year in 2011 — will take place November 3 through 10 in Hollywood, California at the historic Chinese Theatre, the Chinese 6 Theatres, the Egyptian Theatre and the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel. ...
Monthly Archives: August 2011
Montreal Film Fest Wrap-Up by Stephen Holt The wonderful joie de vivre that one always experiences at this most delightful of Film Festivals, Montreal’s Festival des Film du Monde 2011, is going to be carried on and felt right on up to the Oscars by the amazing, astounding, hilarious French silent B&W film “The Artist.” Silent? Black and White? Oscar...
Livingincinema.com‘s Craig Kennedy, Ryan Adams and me, Sasha Stone, have once again fired up our three-way moviegasm podcast for your listening pleasure (or not). On this week’s episode we try to discuss The Help a little more deeply and separate the good from the bad from the ugly. We also talk briefly about our favorite films of the year so far. The...
It’s probably less meaningful to say “once again we’re faced with an Oscar year that features all white, male directors” than it is to say it in a more positive light — that there are many female directors in the discussion of this year’s race. And there, by god. There are. This year, several female directors are already making their...
Check out the background essay at The Playlist Jose Gallegos wrote to accompany his affectionate video tribute to French film of the 1960s. What a great phrase: “la naissance de l’auteur.” The noise at the beginning and end of the montage is a wonderful touch — that tangible buzz of anticipation on the soundtrack as a reel of film threads through...