Some people are so blind, they can’t see a metaphor even when it’s right in front of them.
I thought the protests over Tropic Thunder were the silliest ever, but now blind activists are planning on picketing the release of Fernando Meirelles’ Blindness, a film about society crumbling when it’s hit by an epidemic of sightlessness.
Marc Maurer, [...]

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Eileen Walsh in Eden, a Liberation Entertainment Release
Photo credit: Bernard Walsh
It’s not set to be officially released until November, but Declan Recks’ Irish marriage drama Eden kicks off the Los Angeles Irish Film Festival on Thursday, and it’s playing the annual Woodstock Film Festival on Thursday and Saturday. Besides that, it’s a terrific film and [...]

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Jennybee brought this trailer for the French I’ve Loved You So Long to my attention last night. The film starring Kristin Scott Thomas as a woman who comes to live with her younger sister after being in prison for 15 years premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival in February and has been getting good notices ever [...]

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