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15 items from 2011
"Super 8," "Viva Riva!," "The Trip," "Cría cuervos," More
12 June 2011 11:50 AM, PDT | MUBI | See recent MUBI news »
First, a quick reminder that entries on several films playing here or there have been updated through today: Film Socialisme, Agrarian Utopia, Road to Nowhere and The Tree of Life. Alright, on with the weekend...
"Jj Abrams imitates to flatter with Super 8, an homage to the seminal science fiction films of Steven Spielberg that succumbs to empty nostalgic pandering," argues Nick Schager in Slant. "As with his Star Trek, Abrams's latest puts a modern spin on classical material, though here reinvention isn't the goal so much as slavish duplication embellished with muscular CG effects. It's akin to returning to a cinematic womb of Spielbergian father-son issues, suburban households under extraterrestrial strain, and teen romance, friendship, and maturation via out-of-this-world circumstances. The effect of such a modus operandi is initial coziness quickly giving way to disheartening familiarity, with Abrams's own preoccupations (if he had any to begin with) becoming subsumed beneath the root themes, »
Interview | Comedian Ahmed Ahmed Proves That Arabs and Muslims Laugh "Just Like Us"
11 June 2011 4:34 AM, PDT | Indiewire | See recent Indiewire news »
International comedian Ahmed Ahmed's directorial debut "Just Like Us," follows comics in the Middle East (Ahmed included) who tour to show that comedy is still very much alive in the Arab world. Ahmed chatted with indieWIRE about what made him to step behind the camera. The film opened in New York, Los Angeles and Washington, D.C. on June 10th. Click here to see when it's coming to a theater near »
Trailer Watch: ‘Bride Flight,’ ‘Just Like Us’ and ‘Queen of the Sun’
10 June 2011 2:07 PM, PDT | Fandango | See recent Fandango news »
While the kids of small-town America try to figure out J.J. Abrams big secret in Super 8 and Charles Xavier, Erik Lensherr and the rest of the X-Men prep for a second weekend battle at the box office, we take a look at a few other movies that are getting limited releases today. Check out the trailers below and let us know if any of these movies look interesting to you. Bride Flight A sweeping romantic drama that charts the lives of three Dutch women from different backgrounds who emigrate to New Zealand as war brides, Bride Flight gets a limited release in Los Angeles this weekend. Critics have tagged this movie a lush, epic romantic weepie that’s filled with rich characters and great acting. Just Like Us Director Ahmed Ahmed leads a group of comedians...
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Film: Movie Review: Just Like Us
9 June 2011 12:05 PM, PDT | avclub.com | See recent The AV Club news »
Comedy generally doesn’t benefit from having any goal beyond making people laugh, but for Ahmed Ahmed, a prominent Egyptian-American stand-up and ringleader of a tour through Arab countries chronicled in the documentary Just Like Us, the opportunity seems too great to pass up. Post 9/11, with American tensions with Arabs and Muslims running hot, Ahmed seized on the chance to use comedy to build bridges between disparate cultures and lighten the mood a bit. It’s an admirable mission, but the bridge-building doesn’t serve the comedy, which generally searches for a common denominator, and it definitely doesn »
[Now Streaming] Your ‘Super 8,’ ‘Troll Hunter,’ ‘The Trip’ & ‘Just Like Us’ Alternatives
9 June 2011 6:07 AM, PDT | The Film Stage | See recent The Film Stage news »
Each week within this column we strive to pair the latest in theatrical releases to the worthwhile titles currently available on Netflix Instant Watch.
This week there’s something strange lurking out there in the dark. While aliens and trolls cause havoc here and abroad, a band of British and Middle Eastern comedians take to the road to crack jokes and break down barriers. And if you’re eager to take these kinds of thrills and chuckles home, we’ve got a slew of suggestions for your viewing pleasure.
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Sci-fi icon Steven Spielberg and Star Trek director J.J. Abrams team up to bring this much-anticipated tale of childhood adventure and alien mystery to theaters. Super 8 centers on a tight-knit group of adolescent filmmakers who witness a horrifying train crash — and later spot something far more frightening emerge from the wreckage. But who will believe them? Joel Courtney, »
- Kristy Puchko
Tribeca Takes: Ahmed Ahmed on Just Like Us
9 June 2011 5:00 AM, PDT | TribecaFilm.com | See recent Tribeca Film news »
Comedian/director Ahmed Ahmed in Just Like Us In the spring of 2009, a dozen American and international comedians and I set out for the Middle East on a four-country comedy tour. What we embarked on was groundbreaking, to say the least. Two years prior to that, I had toured the Middle East with a group of strictly Middle Eastern comics, and we called our show The Axis Of Evil Comedy Tour. After we made history introducing Arab-American stand up comedy to the region, I thought it would be a great idea to mix it up a bit and allow American comics to actually perform "American" stand-up comedy, and it worked much better than I thought. We filmed the tour, called Just Like Us, and cut 200 hours of footage into a 72-minute, (eventually) award-winning documentary. With the help of my incredible producers Taylor Feltner and Matt Blaine, and our awesome editors »
What’s So Funny About the Middle East?
6 June 2011 7:00 AM, PDT | Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal | See recent Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal news »
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In the wake of September 11th, my life took a left turn into a world I never saw coming and suddenly I was hurled into a cross fire of hatred, racial profiling and misunderstanding. Up until that day, Arab-Muslims in America had always been viewed in such a way that made it difficult for the average person to identify with, and then it got worse. At the time, I was an out-of-work actor living in Hollywood »
- Ahmed Ahmed
Interview: Just Like Us Director Ahmed Ahmed
5 June 2011 4:53 PM, PDT | ShockYa | See recent ShockYa news »
Ahmed Ahmed’s Just Like Us made its world premiere at the 2010 Tribeca Film Festival and almost exactly a year later, wrapped up its festival run back in New York at the Gold Coast International Film Festival. Similarly to the film and Ahmed’s approach to life, Just Like Us has come full circle. Sticking with the idioms, when one door closes for this documentary, another one opens as Just Like Us is preparing for a Us release via Lionsgate. In the film, Ahmed tackles the misconception that Arabs have no sense of humor. With the help of a hilarious and amusingly crude team of comedians, Ahmed travels to Dubai, Lebanon, »
- Perri Nemiroff
Exclusive Just Like Us Clip
16 May 2011 | Comingsoon.net | See recent Comingsoon.net news »
ComingSoon.net has a first look at a clip from Just Like Us , opening in New York, Los Angeles and Washington DC on June 10th before expanding to more markets on June 17. The documentary features Egyptian-American comedian Ahmed Ahmed, in his directorial debut, and also features Ted Alexandro, Sherif Azab, Whitney Cummings, Tommy Davidson, Omid Djalili, Erik Griffin, Maz Jobrani, Sebastian Maniscalco, Eman Morgan, Tom Papa, Maria Shehata and Angelo Tsarouchas. The film documents four countries in the Middle East, showcasing the cultures of Dubai, Lebanon, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and Egypt with sold out crowds totaling over 20,000 people. Through the current Internet age, stand-up comedy has flourished in the Arab region over the past few years. »
Tribeca 2011: Award Winners
4 May 2011 9:41 AM, PDT | WeAreMovieGeeks.com | See recent WeAreMovieGeeks.com news »
You can tell how massive and diverse a festival like Tribeca is by the fact that I saw 10 features and a whole bunch of shorts, yet only one film I saw won an award and none received special mention. I want to congratulate Rider & Shiloh Strong for winning best online short for their amazing film, The Dungeon Master. I have been pushing it as my favorite short of the festival and apparently many people agreed with me. Below is the list of all the winners & special mentions. Congratulations to all of them and congrats to everyone who just played at the festival, which is a huge honor by itself.
World Narrative Competition Categories:
The jurors for the 2011 World Narrative Competition were Souleymane Cissé, Scott Glenn, David Gordon Green, Rula Jebreal, Art Linson, Jason Sudeikis and Dianne Wiest.
The Founders Award for Best Narrative Feature . She Monkeys (Apflickorna), directed by Lisa Aschan, »
- Jerry Cavallaro
Tribeca Film Festival reveals its winners
29 April 2011 8:37 AM, PDT | Hollywoodnews.com | See recent Hollywoodnews.com news »
By Sean O’Connell
Hollywoodnews.com: The 10th annual Tribeca Film Festival announced the winners of its competition categories Thursday night at a ceremony hosted at the W Union Square in New York City.
Not that the festival, co-founded by Robert De Niro, is finished. It runs through May 1, giving audiences time to go see the films that topped their respective categories.
“It’s wonderful to have reached our 10th edition and to be able to celebrate with all of these gifted filmmakers. We’ve been fortunate that as we have grown we have remained a place that welcomes a diverse range of stories told by compelling and exciting filmmakers,” said Jane Rosenthal, festival co-founder. “We are truly honored that the community has supported the Festival all these years – the community of New York and the international film community.”
Screenings of all winning films will take place throughout the final day of the Festival, »
- Sean O'Connell
2011 Tribeca Film Festival Announces Awards
28 April 2011 7:17 PM, PDT | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »
Today the Tribeca Film Festival awarded $185,000 in cash prizes for both narrative and documentary films. Some notable awards include: She Monkeys for Best Narrative, Artificial Paradises for Best Cinematography, Turn Me On Goddammit for Best Screenplay, and Carice van Houten as Ingrid Jonker in Black Butterflies for Best Actress. Check out the press release below for the full lineup of awards.
2011 Tribeca Film Festival Announces Awards
She Monkeys, Journals Of Musan, Bombay Beach And Like Water
Win Top Awards In Juried World Competitions
Festival Awards More Than $185,000 In Cash Prizes
[April 28, 2011 – New York, NY] – The 10th annual Tribeca Film Festival, co-founded by Robert De Niro, Jane Rosenthal and Craig Hatkoff, and presented by founding sponsor American Express, announced the winners of its competition categories tonight at a ceremony hosted at the W Union Square in New York City. The Festival runs through May 1, 2011.
The world competition winners for narrative and documentary films were chosen »
- Christopher Clemente
Tribeca Film Festival 2011 Announces Jurors for Competitive Categories
20 April 2011 7:10 AM, PDT | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »
The Tribeca Film Festival has announced its jurors who will be choosing the winning films, filmmakers and actors from the six competitive Festival categories. The thirty-eight jurors consist of award-winning filmmakers, screenwriters and notorious actors such as Whoopi Goldberg and Michael Cera. Winners will be announced at the Tff Awards Night ceremony on April 28, which will be hosted by Gideon Yago and streamed live on TribecaFilm.com. Below is the press release from Tribeca.
Please visit www.tribecafilm.com for more details. The 2011 Festival runs from April 20 – May 1.
2011 Tribeca Film Festival Jury Announced
David O. Russell, David Gordon Green, Dianne Wiest, Souleymane Cissé, Whoopi Goldberg, Paul Dano, Zoe Kazan, Rainn Wilson, Anna Kendrick, Michael Cera, Denis Leary,Atom Egoyan and Fran Lebowitz are Among the 38 Festival Jurors
New York, NY – April 18, 2010 – The Tribeca Film Festival (Tff), presented by American Express, the Founding Sponsor of the Festival, today announced its jurors »
- Christopher Clemente
David O. Russell, Whoopi Goldberg among Tribeca Film Fest jurors
18 April 2011 11:18 AM, PDT | Hollywoodnews.com | See recent Hollywoodnews.com news »
By Sean O’Connell
Hollywoodnews.com: David O. Russell, Nora Ephron, Rainn Wilson, Paul Dano, Anna Kendrick, Michael Cera, Whoopi Goldberg and Dianne Wiest are some of the celebrity names added to the 2011 Tribeca Film Festival Jury, announced today.
The jurors have been divided among the six competitive Festival categories and will announce the winning films, filmmakers and actors in those categories at the Tff Awards Night ceremony on April 28.
The 2011 Festival runs from April 20 – May 1.
“This year’s jury is made up of a range of accomplished individuals in their respective fields, bringing a fresh and well-rounded perspective,” said Jane Rosenthal, Co-Founder of the Tribeca Film Festival. “It’s an honor to have a jury of such caliber watching and discussing the films in competition this year.”
Following is a list of all 2011 Festival jurors and their respective categories.
World Competition Categories:
The jurors for the 2011 World Narrative Competition »
- Sean O'Connell
Tribeca Film Festival announces 2011 jurors
18 April 2011 10:00 AM, PDT | EW - Inside Movies | See recent EW.com - Inside Movies news »
David O. Russell, Nora Ephron, Dianne Wiest, Jason Sudeikis, Whoopi Goldberg, Paul Dano, Zoe Kazan, Rainn Wilson, Anna Kendrick, Michael Cera, Denis Leary, Atom Egoyan and Fran Lebowitz are among the 38 jurors for this year’s Tribeca Film Festival, which runs from April 20 to May 1. “This year’s jury is made up of a range of accomplished individuals in their respective fields, bringing a fresh and well-rounded perspective,” said Jane Rosenthal, Co-Founder of the Tribeca Film Festival, in a statement. “It’s an honor to have a jury of such caliber watching and discussing the films in competition this year. »
- Jeff Labrecque
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15 items from 2011
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