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In the Pipeline: That Evening Sun

I finally caught up with the SXSW Film Festival award winning That Evening Sun the other night and you can check out the latest trailer yourself over at Apple. Brought to life by an Oscar-worthy turn from the great Hal Holbrook, Scott Teems’ adaptation of William Gay’s modern southern gothic short story is a rich [...]

In the pipeline: Earth Days

Coming soon: Robert Stones’ upcoming doc Earth Days, an engaging and entertaining retrospective of the modern environmental movement – a look at how the movement started, where it’s been and where it’s headed.

SnagFilms SummerFest

SnagFilms celebrates its first birthday with SummerFest, a series of week-long premieres of documentaries that haven’t screened in theaters or on TV. SummerFest kicks off this Friday 7/24 with Jonathan Bricklin’s The Entrepreneur. Executive produced by Morgan Spurlock (Super Size Me, the most popular of the 800+ docs that SnagFilms featured in its first year), The Entrepreneur tells the story of Malcolm Bricklin, the filmmaker’s father and the wheeler-dealer who successfully brought the Subaru and the Yugo to America.

In the Pipeline: Lorna’s Silence

A quick look at the latest film from Belgian filmmaking brothers Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne.

Maya, what big eyes you have

Via: Press Release
Maya Entertainment would like you to know that this summer they’re teaming up with Blockbuster to bring a curated slate of eight Latino-themed films to eight major US markets. The series begins July 17th in Los Angeles and it runs through September 10th hitting New York, Chicago, Washington DC, Miami, San Francisco, San [...]

In the Pipeline: The Stoning of Soraya M.

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.

Landing in Los Angeles: Unmistaken Child

Tenzin Zopa searches for the Unmistaken Child
It’s worth noting for residents of Los Angeles that the terrific documentary Unmistaken Child opens here today and that the president of the Tibetan Association of Southern California will speak at Laemmle’s Sunset 5 after the 7:10 screening tonight and again tomorrow June 13th.
Nati Baratz’s documentary tells the story [...]

Caribbean Basterds: Action x 3 and “lots of sex and drugs”

Get ready for lots of “Keyla Espinoza is a Basterd” headlines
After drawing inspiration from Italian cult-genre filmmaker Enzo G. Castellari to make his current film Inglourious Basterds, Quentin Tarantino has apparently given some of that inspiration in return. The 70-year-old Castellari has turned up on the Croisette with a promo reel for his first film [...]

The Summer of Our Discontent: August

Eli Roth and Brad Pitt get one more Nazi scalp in Inglourious Basterds
After mostly shooting blanks in May, June and July, the summer is saved as August arrives bearing the most anticipated wide-release movie of season as far as Living in Cinema is concerned: Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds. Better late than never, I guess.
August 7
G.I. [...]

David Lynch presents ‘Interview Project’

We’ve been wondering what David Lynch was up to besides executive producing Werner Herzog’s “guerrilla-style digital video shoot” My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done and this morning Vulture notes this promotional video for Interview Project, premiering at DavidLynch.com on June 1.
What’s it all about? Well, it looks like Lynch sent his minions on [...]