Baby Jane by Billy Clift (top); Shirley Knight, Liz Jahren in Not Fade Away (middle); Homewrecker by Paul Hart (bottom) Reeling 2009, this year’s edition of the Chicago Lesbian & Gay International Film Festival, kicked off on Thu., Nov. 5, with a screening of Casper Andreas‘ The Big Gay Musical. Upcoming feature films include: Billy Clift’s Baby Jane, a recreation of What Ever Happened with Baby Jane? starring real drag queens playing the two female leads — as opposed to Joan Crawford and Bette Davis playing drag queens playing the two female leads. Florencia Manovil’s romantic drama Fiona’s Script, about an insecure bisexual woman who reluctantly enters into a relationship with a ladies’ tomboy. Full story...
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced the 10 semi-finalists in the animated short film category of the 2010 Academy Awards.
2010 Golden Globes Predictions: Best Picture – Comedy or Musical
The Informant! (above, with Matt Damon), d: Steven Soderbergh; scr: Scott Z.
2010 Golden Globe Predictions: Best Picture – Drama
The Hurt Locker, Kathryn Bigelow; scr: Mark Boal
A US Army elite unit disarms bombs in Iraq.
Marie Dressler in Dinner at 8
Marie Dressler IV: DINNER AT 8, THE LATE CHRISTOPHER BEAN
Marie Dressler and Claire Du Brey.
Noel Clarke’s Adulthood, which was screened at this year’s Karlovy Vary Film Festival, opens this week on IFC Festival Direct, a distribution outlet presenting "a collection of the best and most innovative cinema" from film festivals around the world, exclusively on demand.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced the 15 semi-finalists in the 2010 Academy Awards’ Documentary Feature category.
There are few web series that I’ve enjoyed watching; of those, Matt Koval’s "The Fuplers" is probably my favorite.
European Film Award nominee and a very likely contender for the 2010 best documentary feature Academy Award, Yoav Shamir’s Defamation opens on Friday, Nov.
Judy Garland in A Star Is Born (top); Brigitte Helm in Metropolis (middle); Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean Seberg in Breathless (bottom)
Turner Classic Movies‘ first-ever TCM Classic Film Festival, which will be held on April 22-25, 2010, in Hollywood, will feature the world premiere of a newly restored edition of George Cukor’s A Star is Born (1954), starring Judy Garland and James Mason; the North American premiere of the restored version of Fritz Lang’s Metropolis (1927); and a 50th anniversary screening of Jean-Luc Godard’s Breathless, starring Jean-Paul Belmondo and Jean Seberg.
Directed by Andrew Jacobs, Four Seasons Lodge is currently playing at New York City’s IFC Center at Sixth Avenue at West Third Street.
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