Film

Amazonas Film Festival and the Environment in THE GUARDIAN

Alternative Film Guide  3 hours ago

Demetrios Matheou in The Guardian: "The Amazonas film festival, whose flagship venue is that same opera house in crestfallen Manaus, is a much gentler affair [than Werner Herzog's Fitzcarraldo], of course, whose guests could not be more mollycoddled.
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Penélope Cruz, Kristin Scott Thomas, Clint Eastwood at the Santa Barbara Film Festival 2009

Alternative Film Guide  4 hours ago

Awards and honorees at the 2009 Santa Barbara International Film Festival, to be held in the Southern California coastal town between January 22-February 1, 2009, include the Modern Master Award for Clint Eastwood (on Thursday, January 29, at the historic Arlington Theatre); the American Riviera Award for Mickey Rourke (on Friday, January 30); the [.
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WERE THE WORLD MINE Trailer

Alternative Film Guide  24 hours ago

  Co-written by partners Cory James Krueckeberg and Tom Gustafson (from Gustafson’s 2003 short Faeries) and directed by Gustafson, Were the World Mine tells the story of small-town teen Timothy (Tanner Cohen), who happens to be gay, ostracized, and in love with his private school’s top jock (Nathaniel David Becker).
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LIFE Magazine Images Available on Google

Alternative Film Guide  less than a day ago

Google has recently launched an online photo gallery featuring images from Life magazine’s archives, many of which have never been publicly seen before.
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MARY AND MAX to Open Sundance 2009

Alternative Film Guide  less than a day ago

The 2009 Sundance Film Festival will open with Adam Elliot’s clay animation feature Mary and Max, the tale of an 8-year-old Australian girl who becomes the pen pal of an obese, 44-year-old male New Yorker.
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MUSIC, LOVE, METHOD: Smoking outside the House of Demme

Bright Lights After Dark  less than a day ago

Finally saw RACHEL GETTING MARRIED, which is like a Demme film reunion party that everyone's invited to, but after you leave, you never see any of them again.
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Buster Keaton’s THE GENERAL - Ultimate 2 Disc Edition

Alternative Film Guide  less than a day ago

Considered by many Buster Keaton’s masterpiece and one of the greatest movies ever made, the 1927 silent comedy The General — co-directed by Keaton and Clyde Bruckman — has received a classy DVD treatment courtesy of Kino International: "The General - Ultimate 2 Disc Edition.
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MAN BITES DOG d: Benoît Poelvoorde, Rémy Belvaux, André Bonzel

Alternative Film Guide  2 days ago

C’est arrivé près de chez vous / Man Bites Dog aka It Happened in Your Neighborhood (1992) Direction: Benoît Poelvoorde, Rémy Belvaux, André Bonzel.
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MIRACLE ON 34TH STREET at the Academy

Alternative Film Guide  2 days ago

A newly restored 35mm print of Miracle on 34th Street, the whimsical 1947 classic about Santa Claus posing as Santa Claus, will be presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences on Thursday, December 11, at 7:30 p.
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TAPESTRIES OF HOPE: Q&A with Michealene Cristini Risley

Alternative Film Guide  3 days ago

American filmmaker Michealene Cristini Risley (right) met Zimbabwean social activist Betty Makoni at an International Development Exchange event in San Francisco.
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An Evening With Kenneth Anger

Bright Lights After Dark  3 days ago

Last night, I had the pleasure of attending a screening of some of Kenneth Anger’s most recent short films - hosted by Mr.
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Berta Singerman Recites “Camino de la Patria”

Alternative Film Guide  3 days ago

  Argentinean stage legend Berta Singerman — actually born in Russia — made only three films, one of which in Hollywood: Nada más que una mujer / Nothing More Than a Woman, the 1934 Spanish-language version of the Fox production Pursued (itself a remake of The Painted Woman).
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A STORY OF HEALING, THE LONG WAY HOME: Oscar’s Docs

Alternative Film Guide  3 days ago

The two 1997 Oscar-winning documentaries, Donna Dewey’s A Story of Healing (right) and Mark Jonathan Harris‘ The Long Way Home, will be screened as the final installment of “Oscar’s Docs, Part Four: Academy Award-Winning Documentaries 1988–1997” on Monday, November 24, at 7:30 p.
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Sundance, Prop. 8, and Boycotts

Alternative Film Guide  3 days ago

Via The Advocate: "Film Independent released a statement on Friday in response to Los Angeles Film Festival director Richard Raddon’s donation to the campaign for Proposition 8, which succeeded in banning gay marriage in California.
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UNTIL THE LIGHT TAKES US: Q&A with Aaron Aites and Audrey Ewell

Alternative Film Guide  4 days ago

Aaron Aites and Audrey Ewell’s Until the Light Takes Us was one of the most unusual entries at the 2008 AFI FEST held in Los Angeles in early November.
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Oscar 2009: 15 Documentary Semi-Finalists

Alternative Film Guide  4 days ago

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced that 15 films in the Documentary Feature category will move forward in the voting process for the 81st Academy Awards.
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RASHOMON: Monday Nights with Oscar

Alternative Film Guide  4 days ago

Akira Kurosawa’s 1950 classic Rashomon, which officially introduced Japanese cinema to the world at large, will be the next film presented as part of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ series “Monday Nights with Oscar.
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"Supporting" Babes of Bond - Part One

Bright Lights After Dark  4 days ago

Critics are mixed and audience feedback wildly disparate over Quantum of Solace, but while you are formulating your opinion or, like me, waiting for the initial crowds to disperse before taking in the second Daniel Craig entry, why not give a 'flix to the Bonds of the illustrious past? Better yet why not look at their hot babes? And better yet, the supporting babes--the ones who usually die, or oft times they turn out to be evil henchmen, seductress-spies and/or the super villain of the film themselves! The first such babe appears in Dr.
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QUANTUM SOLACE Soars to the Top of the Box Office

Alternative Film Guide  5 days ago

Quantum of Solace crushed its competition at the North American box office this weekend with a whopping $70.
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PURPLE VIOLETS d: Edward Burns

Alternative Film Guide  6 days ago

Purple Violets (2007) Direction and screenplay: Edward Burns. Cast: Selma Blair, Patrick Wilson, Edward Burns, Debra Messing, Dennis Farina, Donal Logue.
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