Posted on February 16th, 2008 by Craig Kennedy
Marcello Mastroianni and Anita Ekberg get wet in Federico Fellini’s La Dolce Vita
With 1960’s La Dolce Vita, Federico Fellini would leave behind his Italian Neo-Realist roots once and for all and in the process create one of the cornerstones of world cinema. It was the film which inspired the adjective “Felliniesque,” used to describe a certain circus-like [...]
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Posted on February 16th, 2008 by Craig Kennedy
(L-R) director Errol Morris, actress Sally Hawkins, director Jose Padilha,
writer/director Wang Xiaoshui, Actor Reza Najiepose and
director Paul Thomas Anderson showing off their BIFF hardware.
Awards were handed out this weekend as the 2008 Berlin International Film Festival wound down. Elite Squad (Tropa de Elite), the violent action film from Brazil was awarded the Golden Bear while [...]
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Posted on February 16th, 2008 by Craig Kennedy
Best Cinematic Breakthrough, 2007
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Posted on February 16th, 2008 by Craig Kennedy
Now playing in a living room near you
The death of theatrically distributed films has been rumored for ages; probably since the rise of television. Maybe longer. TV hasn’t killed it. Sticky floors, bad projection, uncomfortable seats and noisy audiences haven’t killed it; VHS and DVD haven’t killed it.
The latest threat to your local movie theater is [...]
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