LiC reviews the terrific documentary Branson from last week’s Los Angeles Film Festival. You won’t believe me when I tell you that the stories of a bunch of people on the lower rungs of the entertainment industry in tourist mecca Branson Missouri are good ones, but it’s true.
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Fresh off Moon winning the Michael Powell Award for the Best New British Feature at this year’s Edinburgh International Film Festival, ScreenDaily spoke to Duncan Jones who confirms his next project is the sci-fi mystery-thriller Mute, a UK/German co-production budgeted at $25 million (roughly five times the budget of Moon).
According to Jones, “Mute is about [...]
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The 2009 Los Angeles Film Festival wrapped up this evening with the awards: Wah Do Dem and Those Who Remain took the Target Filmmaker Narrative and Documentary awards, while The Stoning of Soraya M., Born Without and Soul Power took the audience prizes.
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An interview with writer/director Matthew Bissonnette and his actor brother Joel about their new film Passenger Side which recently premiered in narrative competition at the Los Angeles Film Festival
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An LiC interview with Alicia Scherson, the Chilean filmmaker whose film Turistas just made its US premiere in narrative competition at the 2009 Los Angeles Film Festival
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Los Angeles Film Festival review of the world premiere of Wah Do Dem.
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Los Angeles Film Festival review of the UK comedy In The Loop starring Peter Capaldi, James Gandolfini and Mimi Kennedy
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Street protests by Iranian-Americans in Westwood coincide with a LAFF screening of The Stoning of Soraya M.
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Los Angeles film festival review of Matthew Bissonette’s comedy Passenger Side starring Adam Scott and Joel Bissonette
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Los Angeles Film Festival review of Alicia Scherson’s Turistas
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A look at the first night of the 2009 Los Angeles Film Festival which saw the world premiere of Jeff Daniels and Ryan Reynolds in Paper Man.
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The trailer for the existentialist comedy Cold Souls starring Paul Giamatti.
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The poster for Robert (The Wrestler) Siegel’s Big Fan starring Patton Oswalt.
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A closer look at Narrative Competition category for The Los Angeles Film Festival (6/18 – 6/28)
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A look at the upcoming film The Stoning of Soraya M., the true story of an Iranian wife who is wrongfully accused of adultery by her husband and stoned to death. It’s playing at the Los Angeles Film Festival on June 20 and it opens in limited release on June 26.
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The new poster for the upcoming Cold Souls, an existentialist comedy starring Paul Giamatti who plays himself, but in a world where human souls can be traded like commodities.
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Davis Guggenheim (An Inconvenient Truth) brings Jimmy Page, The Edge and Jack White together for a little chat about the electric guitar.
Calling it “musically and visually sumptuous,” Variety’s John Anderson says the documentary “is a three-headed, amped-up, guitar-shredding slamdown powered by a pan-generational trio of rock gods…”
The film premiered at Toronto in 2008 and it’s [...]
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Taking a 180 degree turn from the attention getting fluff of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, programmers for the LA Film Festival have announced that the opening night film will be the world premiere of Paper Man starring Jeff Daniels.
It’s an honest-to-god indie from first-time filmmakers Michele and Kieran Mulroney about a middle-aged writer (Daniels) [...]
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LAFF says: “Domo arigato, Mr. Roboto”
In 2007 we scoffed that the programmers of the Los Angeles Film Festival chose Michael Bay’s Los Angeles-set Transformers as the festival’s centerpiece gala. The move was justified as being a part of a retrospective of films featuring the City of Angels getting trashed by assorted disasters natural and man [...]
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Twitch also has a NSFW trailer for Dogtooth, the winner of the top prize in the Un Certain Regard section at Cannes.
Dogtooth is a sort of comedy(?) that tells the story of three 20-somethings who’ve lived their whole lives in an entirely insular world of confinement staged by their parents. It didn’t get the attention [...]
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In between the last flurry of LiC coverage and the awarding of the Palme d’Or, there were a number of other interesting films to play Cannes that have slipped through the cracks. I’m putting one of the monkeys in charge of picking up some of the loose ends.
Twitch brings us something of a teaser for [...]
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Palme d’Or winner: Michael Haneke
Lifted wholesale from the fine folks at indieWIRE, here are the Cannes winners.
Palme d’Or: The White Ribbon (Das Weisse Band), d:Michael Haneke
Grand Prix (runner-up): A Prophet, d:Jacques Audiard
Prix Exceptional du Jury (Special Jury Prize): Alain Resnais, Wild Grass
Prix de la Mise en Scene (best director): Brillante Mendoza, Kinatay
Prix du Scenario (best [...]
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Michael Haneke’s The White Ribbon
Another day, another favorite for the Palme D’Or. This week, some eyes turned toward Michael (Cache, Funny Games) Haneke’s The White Ribbon as the one to beat for the Cannes Film Festival’s top prize. Sony Pictures Classics, which picked the film up before the start of the festival, also recently purchased [...]
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Most people have been buzzing about The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus as Heath Ledger’s last film. I’ve been more interested in finding out if it’s good Terry Gilliam (Brazil) or bad (Tideland). If these first reviews are any indication, it’s somewhere in between, but closer to the latter.
The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus. UK/Canada
Director: Terry Gilliam; [...]
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Jacques Audiard’s A Prophet (Un Prophéte), one of the current favorites among the bloggering class to win the Palme d’Or, has been picked up for distribution in North America, South America and Australia by Sony Pictures Classics.
Check out the trailer here or read what some of the critics have been saying here.
No word yet on [...]
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We ran the Spanish language trailer for Isabel Coixet’s latest a couple weeks ago, but now a subtitled version (minus the annoying Spanish dub) is making the rounds.
It’s still not safe for work…unless you’re lucky enough to have a job where simulated cunnilingus is considered safe.
Map of the Sounds of Tokyo stars Rinko Kikuchi (Babel, [...]
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Talk continues to swirl around Lars von Trier’s Antichrist and reviews continue to trickle in as Variety announces that the film has been picked up for US distribution by IFC along with Ken Loach’s Looking for Eric.
At SpoutBlog, I think Karina Longworth’s review benefits from coming after the initial wave of hype. There’s a sobriety [...]
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Are those the Cannes critics he’s humping her on top of?
O Cannes buzz. How I love to ride your currents, winding this way and wending that. A couple of observations before launching into yesterday’s films:
Originally I thought Jane Campion’s Bright Star was on people’s lips as the Palme D’Or favorite, but more and more I’m [...]
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Film Independent announced today that Hayao Miyazaki’s Ponyo would be the closing night film of the 2009 Los Angeles Film Festival, which runs June 18 – June 28.
With Ponyo, famed Japanese animator Hayao Miyazaki takes inspiration from Hans Christian Andersen’s A Little Mermaid to tell the tale of a goldfish who decides she wants to [...]
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Sunday brought a highly anticipated historical epic screening out of competition, a controversial competition entry drawing comparison’s to Gaspar Noe’s Irreversible and a genre thriller from Hong Kong. Wherever they take place and no matter how prestigious they are, you have to love film festivals.
Catch up with Days 3 and 4 here, Days 1 and [...]
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