A group of Indian teenagers doing their part to make the
world a better place in the AFI Audience Prize co-winner
for Best Documentary: The World We Want
As Edward Zwick’s World War II drama Defiance makes its world premiere tonight, AFI draws to a close for another year, but not before the grand jury and audience awards [...]
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François Bégaudeau in Laurent Cantet’s The Class
Ok, back to the movies. I’m a little behind with the AFI coverage so I’ll just start throwing out reviews as I get them done in no particular order.
Revanche
Austria 2008. US Premiere
Austria’s official entry for the Foreign Language Oscar follows the inexorably intersecting lives of a small time criminal, [...]
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In the interest of making sure I got to the theater on time for an early 6pm screening of Che, I cut my afternoon film schedule off after one film. It turns out the seating was reserved (hence the aisle and seat number on my ticket) so I needn’t have bothered. Oh well. It’s all [...]
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First up, congratulations to David R. of Toluca Lake for winning the ticket to see Steven Soderbergh’s Che this evening at Grauman’s Chinese Theater. Benicio Del Toro and Steven Soderbergh are scheduled to be on hand so be sure to show up early and drink in the red carpet shenanigans.
Here’s hoping Che lives up to [...]
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Amy Adams, Meryl Streep, and director John Patrick Shanley arrive at 2008 AFI Fest
(Photo by Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images North America)
The 2008 AFI Fest kicked off officially last night in Hollywood with the world premiere of John Patrick Shanley’s Doubt starring Meryl Streep, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Amy Adams. Because of the last minute scheduling of [...]
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Once again Jennybee is Jenny-on-the-spot with a trailer heads up. This time it’s for Danny Boyle’s much-buzzed Slumdog Millionaire over at Yahoo.
After successful runs at Telluride and Toronto, the Oscar hype around Slumdog continues to grow. Click the image below to link to the trailer page.
AFI Fest is having a tribute to Danny Boyle on Friday, [...]
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Yahoo has the trailer for Laurent Cantet’s 2008 Palme d’Or winning film The Class.
Click to see trailer at Yahoo
France’s official entry for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar opens in New York and Los Angeles on December 25. It’s also playing at AFI Fest which officially begins Thursday.
Thanks to Jennybee for the heads up!
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Ordinarily I run screaming from movies about Christmas, but this one is different. Arnaud Desplechin (Kings and Queen) brings us Catherine Deneuve, her daughter Chiara Mastroianni, Mathieu Amalric and Emmanuelle Devos in a French dysfunctional family Christmas.
A Christmas Tale (Un Conte de Noël) premiered at this year’s Cannes to good reviews. It can next be [...]
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Variety’s Anne Thompson has the poster for Danny Boyle’s Oscar-buzzed Slumdog Millionaire. Click the image to see the whole thing.
The true story of a poor street kid from Mumbai who wins top prize on a million dollar game show is set to play the upcoming AFI Fest and it will hit theaters on November 28.
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AFI announced this evening that John Patrick Shanley’s Doubt starring Meryl Streep, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Amy Adams will fill in for the The Soloist as the opening night film for AFI Fest on October 30.
According to Miramax president Daniel Battsek: “The movie is still being finished, but we were so excited to show Doubt and [...]
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A press release went out this evening announcing that Paramount cancelled AFI Fest’s opening night world premiere of The Soloist due to the film’s release date change.
A new film will be announced on Thursday.
Will it be another Paramount film? Will it be Benjamin Button?
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Tickets for AFI Fest which runs October 30 - November 9 went on sale to AFI members this morning and tickets will be available to the general public beginning Friday.
As reported previously, the opening night film is the world premiere of Joe Wright’s The Soloist starring Robert Downey, Jr. and Jamie Foxx. It tells the [...]
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AFI announced yesterday that two highly anticipated films, Darren Aronofsky’s The Wrestler and Steven Soderbergh’s Che will be making their West Coast premieres at the 2008 AFI Fest.
Winner of the Golden Lion at the Venice International Film Festival, The Wrestler starring Mickey Rourke will screen November 1 at Grauman’s Chinese Theater in Hollywood. Che starring Benicio Del Toro [...]
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Joe Wright’s The Soloist will be making its North American premiere as the opening night film of the 2008 AFI Fest in Los Angeles. In the film, Jamie Foxx plays Nathaniel Ayers, the true-life musical prodigy who succumbed to schizophrenia and ended up homeless on the streets of Los Angeles. Robert Downey, Jr. plays the [...]
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Edward Zwick’s Defiance has been added to the growing list of films slated to play the upcoming AFI Fest in Los Angeles. Making its world premiere as AFI’s closing night gala, the film stars Daniel Craig, Liev Schreiber and Jamie Bell as three Polish brothers who form a resistance against the Nazis during World War II.
Defiance [...]
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