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2012 Vimeo Festival + Awards Announces Tickets, Judges & Schedule
25 April 2012 5:30 AM, PDT | Hope for Film | See recent Hope for Film news »
2012 Vimeo Festival + Awards Program Gathers The Greats To Explore What's Next For Creative Video Tickets Now Available; Awards Voting Open To The Public; Complete List of Judges Released, Including Peter Greenaway, Mike Figgis, Casey Neistat And Alana Blanchard Vimeo®, an operating business of Iac [Nasdaq: Iaci], today announced its program for the 2012 Vimeo Festival + Awards, featuring conversations with industry leaders; educational workshops for beginners, enthusiasts, and professionals; and a wide range of video screenings. Vimeo also released the complete list of Awards judges and opened up shortlist voting to the public. »
- Ted Hope
House At The End Of The Street Trailer
23 April 2012 2:42 PM, PDT | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »
Jennifer Lawrence, House at the End of the Street Jennifer Lawrence stars in House at the End of the Street, Mark Tonderai’s horror / thriller to be released by Relativity Media on September 21. The video below makes House at the End of the Street’s house at the end of the street look more than a little like Psycho’s Bates Motel. Jennifer Lawrence has the Janet Leigh role (minus the shower scene and the all that stabbing), while Max Thieriot comes across as a rebooted version of Anthony Perkins‘ Norman Bates. Now, does Thieriot have a sister — instead of a mother — fixation? In addition to The Hunger Games‘ Lawrence (a Best Actress Oscar nominee for Debra Granik’s Winter’s Bone) and Foreverland / My Soul to Take’s Thieriot, House at the End of the Street also features Elisabeth Shue (a Best Actress nominee for Mike Figgis‘ 1995 drama Leaving Las Vegas, »
- Zac Gille
Jennifer Lawrence Danger: House At The End Of The Street Poster
23 April 2012 2:05 PM, PDT | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »
Jennifer Lawrence, House at the End of the Street poster A highly stylized Jennifer Lawrence is seen above in the House at the End of the Street poster. Relativity Media will release the Mark Tonderai thriller on September 21. In addition to The Hunger Games' Lawrence (a Best Actress Oscar nominee for Debra Granik's Winter's Bone), House at the End of the Street also features Elisabeth Shue (a Best Actress nominee for Mike Figgis' 1995 drama Leaving Las Vegas), Foreverland / My Soul to Take's Max Thieriot, Another Dirty Movie / Triple Dog's Nolan Gerard Funk, and Three Days in Havana / The Samaritan's Gil Bellows. In House at the End of the Street, mother Sarah (Shue) and daughter Elissa (Lawrence) move into a house next door to another in which a gone-missing young girl had murdered her parents. Elissa befriends the surviving neighbor, Ryan (Thieriot), and it doesn't »
- Zac Gille
Vote Online For The 2012 Vimeo Awards
20 April 2012 10:41 AM, PDT | Filmmaker Magazine - Blog | See recent Filmmaker Magazine news »
We’re entering the final week of voting for the 2012 Vimeo Awards. Over at the Vimeo site are 12 videos each in categories ranging from Narrative to Documentary, Romance to Experimental, Lyrical to Captured. Voting is open until April 30, and you can vote once a day per category. “Each category will be evaluated by a mix of industry experts in that category and the category winner from the 2010 Awards, taking into account the community vote,” Vimeo says, so that means your vote will be mixed in with the opinions of judges like Philip Bloom, Lucy Walker, Ted Hope, James Franco and others.
Additionally, Vimeo has just announced further details of this year’s festival and awards event, which runs June 7 – 9 at Vimeo’s headquarters underneath the High Line on New York’s West Side. Further details can be found in the press release below. Filmmaker is a sponsor of the Vimeo Awards this year, »
- Scott Macaulay
Review: 'We The Party' Is An Overly Familiar Teen Romp That Tries To Be Something More
5 April 2012 7:15 AM, PDT | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »
"We the Party" has a poster that makes it look like a more urban entry in the popular "Step Up" franchise, but is hilariously tagged as being "From the Director of 'New Jack City,'" a movie that most of the cast and pretty much anyone they're targeting to watch the movie, have either forgotten about entirely or never seen because it's too fucking old. It is, however, quite evocative of "We the Party," a movie that tries to be edgier, more outrageous, and (oddly) more socially conscious than most teen movies, but ends up being just as tired and cliché (if not more so), combining familiar beats from every high school flick imaginable and shellacking them in the tired aesthetics of 1990s music videos.
The titular shindig in "We the Party" is one put on by Hendrix Sutton (Mandela Van Peebles – there are about a half-dozen credited Van »
- Drew Taylor
Close up: James Cameron plumbs the depths
30 March 2012 1:51 AM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Catch up with the last seven days in the world of film
A sailor went to sea sea sea, to see what he could see see see, but all that he could see see see ...
... was James Cameron becoming the first person to travel to the ocean's deepest point solo. The Avatar director sank to a new low on Monday, when he hit the bottom of the western pacific's Mariana trench. Cameron, who made the descent over five hours in a 12-tonne lime green submarine called the Deepsea Challenger, used 3D cameras to film his journey and plans to release a documentary film about the experience later this year.
"He's down there on behalf of everybody else on this planet," said expedition doctor Joe MacInnis during Cameron's dip in the deep blue. "There are seven billion people who can't go, and he can. And he's aware of »
Mike Figgis at Open Weekend: 'Am I a control freak? Yes'
27 March 2012 7:39 AM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
The Carlisle-born film-maker delighted the crowd with some frank tales about how – and how not – to make it in Hollywood
On Saturday night at the Guardian's Open Weekend, film-maker Mike Figgis promised he was going to name names – and he duly did. Figgis gave a brilliant insight into the ups and downs of being a Hollywood director; in his case, more downs than ups. Figgis was born in Carlisle and grew up in Kenya (his father was a frustrated musician and DJ, his mother secretary to Ernest Hemingway, who may or may not have had a passion for her), and in the 1990s looked as if he could become one of Hollywood's top directors, with films such as Internal Affairs and Leaving Las Vegas. But, as he explained to a captivated audience, every time he got within sight of the pinnacle, he blew it.
The trouble is, Figgis said, he »
- Simon Hattenstone
Close up: Is Hunger Games the new Twilight?
22 March 2012 10:07 AM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Catch up with the last seven days in the world of film
Read our 4-star Hunger Games review
With the John Carter fiasco rumbling on Hollywood was desperate for some good news, and it duly came in the slinky form of Jennifer Lawrence and Hunger Games. The set of novels by Suzanne Collins have been touted as the new Twilight and – to all astonishment – have been turned into a rather good film, if you believe Xan Brooks, our man at the first press preview. As the week wore on, it became clear that The Hunger Games was looking at a serious pile of cash when it would finally be released – perhaps even beating the first Twilight film's opening weekend mark of $69m in 2008. Fortunately, as is their way, the Guide had got in quickly and interviewed Lawrence last weekend – and she had little truck with the Twilight »
Thn’s Top Ten Nicolas Cage Performances
16 February 2012 3:51 AM, PST | The Hollywood News | See recent The Hollywood News news »
This week sees the return of Johnny Blaze, the Ghost Rider. Yes that’s right, ol’ horsey-chops himself, Nic Cage, is back on the big screen. Whether you love or hate him (and there’s little doubt – Cage divides opinion) there’s no denying he has incredible screen presence and an eclectic back catalogue of movies. To celebrate the release of Ghost Rider: Spirit Of Vengeance, Thn has taken a look back at its favourite Nic Cage performances…
10. The Wicker Man (2006)
Rightly described as a pile of tripe, the film is only watchable for Cage’s over-the-top and wild performance as Edward Malus, the sheriff investigating the disappearance of a young girl in a neo-pagan community. Any man who will happily run around in a bear suit gets our thumbs up!
9. Drive Angry (2011)
Another outrageously exaggerated Cage performance. This time he hams it up as an escapee of hell who »
- Sam Carey
Top 5 Bleak Romance Movies For Valentine’s Day
14 February 2012 7:28 AM, PST | Obsessed with Film | See recent Obsessed with Film news »
Hey everyone, it’s Valentine’s Day! Quick, now that I’ve reminded you run to your local supermarket buy the biggest card that most closely approximates the feelings you’re not sure you have, grab whichever box of chocolates meets the price/presentation ratio you most sincerely feel represents your desire and conjure up some other token gesture cribbed from your loved one’s favourite film/book/song/Mmog.
An air of cynicism perhaps? Yes, probably. No more cynical though than the programming of tosh like The Vow to be brazenly thrust into the goggle-slots of hapless cinemagoers who would much rather be watching, er, Star Wars in 3D or Drew Barrymore save a whale. Plenty of cinemas are doing special Valentine’s screenings of dross like Dirty Dancing which for some reason is considered romantic. Well, it’s not. Fact.
Here are a handful of films I think »
- Owain Paciuszko
Mike Figgis To Suspend Disbelief With New Thriller
12 February 2012 7:29 PM, PST | FilmInk.com.au | See recent FilmInk.com.au news »
Blurring the lines between reality and fiction, British writer/director Mike Figgis' Suspension of Disbelief follows a world renowned screenwriter and literature professor who becomes deeply implicated in the murder of a mysterious and beautiful young woman. Content Film's Jamie Carmicheal described the film as an "incredibly beautiful psychological thriller", and stated that Mike Figgis was a "master director for this kind of controversial and intense material. »
Daily Briefing. Zulawski @ Bam, Film Comment Selects, Berlinale
31 January 2012 2:21 PM, PST | MUBI | See recent MUBI news »
Romy Schneider on the set of
Andrzej Zulawski's That Most Important Thing: Love (1975)
Following last month's revival of Possession (1981), Hysterical Excess: Discovering Andrzej Zulawski will be the first complete retrospective of the Polish director's work in the Us, running from March 7 through 20 at BAMcinématek in New York. What's more, Zulawski will be making his first appearance in the Us to present an oeuvre that "spans four languages and four decades," as Bam puts it, announcing that they'll be presenting "all 12 of Zulawski's feature films, many of which remain unavailable on home video, with 11 in 35mm prints. Additionally, the two rarely screened shorts that Zulawski made for Polish television at the beginning of his career, Pavoncello and The Song of Triumphant Love (both 1967), make their Us debuts in the series."
The second big announcement out of New York today comes from the Film Society of Lincoln Center. The lineup and »
DGA Awards vs. Academy Awards: Odd People Out Barbra Streisand, Steven Spielberg, Robert Altman
10 January 2012 12:34 PM, PST | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »
Harrison Ford in Andrew Davis' DGA- (but not Oscar-) nominated The Fugitive (top); Madeleine Stowe, Tim Robbins in Robert Altman's Oscar- (but not DGA-) nominated Short Cuts (bottom) DGA Awards vs. Academy Awards 1980s: Odd Men Out Roman Polanski, Kenneth Branagh, David Lynch 1990 DGA Barry Levinson, Avalon Giuseppe Tornatore, Cinema Paradiso [the 1988 Best Foreign Language Film Oscar winner; ineligible for the 1990 Academy Awards] AMPAS Stephen Frears, The Grifters Barbet Schroeder, Reversal of Fortune DGA/AMPAS Kevin Costner, Dances with Wolves Francis Ford Coppola, The Godfather Part III Martin Scorsese, Goodfellas 1991 DGA Barbra Streisand, The Prince of Tides AMPAS John Singleton, Boyz n the Hood DGA/AMPAS Jonathan Demme, The Silence of the Lambs Barry Levinson, Bugsy Ridley Scott, Thelma & Louise Oliver Stone, JFK 1992 DGA Rob Reiner, A Few Good Men AMPAS Martin Brest, Scent of a Woman DGA/AMPAS Clint Eastwood, Unforgiven Robert Altman, The Player James Ivory, Howards End Neil Jordan, The Crying Game 1993 DGA Martin Scorsese, »
- Andre Soares
Dimension Films Acquires Heist Caper The Black Marks
5 January 2012 11:17 AM, PST | The Hollywood News | See recent The Hollywood News news »
Dimension Films’ Bob Weinstein has announced today that they have picked up the Us distribution rights to heist comedy The Black Marks. The film features an impressive looking cast with Kurt Russell headlining as Crunch Calhoun, a hopeless motorcycle daredevil and part-time art thief lured into taking part in a major con by his brother Nicky, played by Matt Dillon. Jay Baruchel will also feature in the comedy that is being written and directed by Jonathan Sobel.
Russell will soon be seen in Tarantino’s Django Unchained and American Football fantasy Touchdown, Matt Dillon meanwhile has roles in Mike Figgis’ Seconds Of Pleasure and porn biopic Inferno: A Linda Lovelace Story in the works.
Source: The Weinstein Co.
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- Craig Hunter
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