Michael J. Smith Sr. in Lance Hammer’s Ballast
This story is about 1000 years old by Internet standards (July 3), but I just stumbled across it and it’s interesting.
Though busy IFC has been snapping up projects left and right lately, one recently slipped through its grasp. According to IndieWIRE’s Anthony Kaufman, Lance Hammer backed out of [...]

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A New Face: Barry Jenkins (Medicine for Melancholy)
Proving that smart movie publications can make lists too, Filmmaker Magazine just posted the 10th annual list of 25 New Faces of Independent Film in their Summer 2008 issue, which is online now and will hit newsstands at the end of the month.
In the official press release, Filmmaker [...]

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Anne Thompson reported this morning that the new hosts of At the Movies would be E! Entertainment’s Ben (son of Jeffrey, grandson of Leonard) Lyons and Turner Classic Movies host Ben (grandson of Herman, great nephew of Joseph L.) Mankiewicz.
Normally I try to post items I have an opinion on. In this case, I’ve got [...]

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Charlie Kaufman’s Synecdoche, New York, one of the more anticipated films around the LiC offices, may soon be picked up by Sony Pictures Classics for distribution in the US. The Hollywood Reporter’s Gregg Goldstein and Steven Zeitchik describe the process as being in “advanced negotiations.”
Normally this is where I’d tell you what the film was [...]

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Laetitia Spigarelli and Mathieu Amalric in Heartbeat Detector
Funny thing about parsing lists of DVD releases: I had no idea how many crap-o DVDs came out every week.
The Teddy Ruxpin Adventures: Return to Rillonia? Really? I had no idea we’d even left Rillonia and now here’s a whole DVD about going back to it. In the [...]

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