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Cannes: Does The Palme d'Or Ever Equal Box Office Receipts?
25 May 2012 6:47 AM, PDT | Indiewire | See recent Indiewire news »
Whatever wins the Palme d’Or this weekend at the Cannes Film Festival, statistics say that the prize offers no assurance of box office success. The last 10 winners totaled just $173.9 million in North America, with a whopping $119.2 million (69%) coming from Michael Moore’s 2004 winner “Fahrenheit 9/11.” Other than “9/11,” the only other Palme d’Or winners to gross over $4 million in North America are Roman Polanski’s “The Pianist" and last year's winner "The Tree of Life." Buoyed by Oscars for best director and best actor, the former took in $32.6 million back in 2002. "Life," meanwhile, grossed $13.3 million domestically last summer. It's a risky set of numbers for potential Stateside distributors. To date, the international mix of Palme d’Or winners have done much better outside North America. Internationally, the films' combined grosses are $399.8 million, only $103.3 »
- Peter Knegt
Film Review: Middling ‘Mansome’ Suffers From Skin-Deep Insight
17 May 2012 3:25 AM, PDT | HollywoodChicago.com | See recent HollywoodChicago.com news »
Chicago – Morgan Spurlock is an awfully likable guy. I’ll never forget the day when he held a special screening of “Super Size Me” for an auditorium full of college kids. After participating in an extended Q & A, Spurlock spoke with every single student that wanted to shake his hand and pose for a picture. When the building finally had to close up for the night, the Spurlock love fest spilled out onto the sidewalk.
Rating: 2.5/5.0
The amiable, often meandering nature of his work directly reflects the agreeable personality of the filmmaker himself. While confrontational documentarians like Michael Moore embrace their fearsome reputations like a badge of honor, Spurlock is so approachable that you’d hardly expect him to have anything up his sleeve. Yet as entertaining as his films can be, Spurlock could certainly benefit from borrowing some of Moore’s shrewdness.
Read Matt Fagerholm’s full review of “Mansome” in our reviews section. »
- adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
The Dictator
11 May 2012 1:57 AM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Sacha Baron Cohen delivers an explosion of weapons-grade offensiveness
After his live-ammo situationist spoofs Borat and Bruno, Sacha Baron Cohen has returned to the world of the straight fiction-feature with his broad comedy satire The Dictator. There is one thing to be said straight away. This is not, repeat not, a cinephile homage to Chaplin's The Great Dictator.
It is less edgy than Baron Cohen's previous two films, featuring big, conventionally contrived gags and a colossal central turn from the man himself. Baron Cohen's Dictator is set to make Peter Sellers' Inspector Clouseau a model of subtlety and sensitivity.
The movie is in the fish-out-of-water tradition of Coming to America and many others. It doesn't, in truth, offer much of a twist on the genre. It does, however, deliver laughs and weapons-grade offensiveness.
Baron Cohen plays General Aladeen, the tyrannical ruler of the oil-rich north African rogue state Wadiya, »
- Peter Bradshaw
#ReGENERATION Movie Review
8 May 2012 4:49 AM, PDT | ShockYa | See recent ShockYa news »
Title: #ReGENERATION Director: Phillip Montgomery The social activism documentary subgenre is a rich one, but the best of these sorts of willfully disquieting films — like “The Corporation,” “An Inconvenient Truth,” “Who Killed the Electric Car?” and Michael Moore’s “Capitalism: A Love Story” – aren’t merely reflexive sermons to the choir, but instead movies that try to root down into systemic injustice, abuse, fraud and scientific rejection, in a fervent effort to expose the cost of continued social apathy and silence. Narrated by Ryan Gosling, the slim but still thought-provoking “#ReGENERATION” slots in nicely as a minor-chord entry of this sort. Director Phillip Montgomery’s film has an agitator’s soul, and that’s perhaps a good [ Read More ] »
- bsimon
Ted Nugent defends 'CBS This Morning' blow-up with one truly unfortunate puppy reference -- Listen
7 May 2012 8:09 AM, PDT | EW.com - PopWatch | See recent EW.com - PopWatch news »
Even Ted Nugent’s explanations are incendiary. After going off on a CBS This Morning correspondent last week, rowdy rocker Ted Nugent defended his outburst to Am radio host Mike Broomhead. Naturally, the way in which Nugent explained himself was just as outrageous as the incident itself. ”The left media and Wasserman Schultz will try to tell you that I threaten the president’s life and that I’m a mean, nasty man who wants to rape your puppy,” said Nugent. Wait, what? Who brought puppies into this? Listen to the full interview below.
Apparently Potus himself did. If you »
- Lanford Beard
More 4 Me at the Cannes Film Market
2 May 2012 11:58 PM, PDT | Encore Magazine | See recent Encore Magazine news »
The Creation Box Films’ documentary More 4 Me is due to screen at the 2012 Cannes Film Market this month, represented by Moon Shadow Films. The film investigates why, during the Gfc, people still crave for ‘more’ and are addicted to consumption.
The announcement:
Creation Box Films is proud to announce that its debut international award-winning feature documentary More 4 Me will screen at the 2012 Cannes Film Market this month, represented by Moon Shadow Films (New York).
Aleta Chappelle from Moon Shadow Films said she was inspired by the documentary – “it is so well put together and I love the many messages it conveys. It made me think how I can do more for the greater good of those who have so little.”
Chappelle, who has worked on The Godfather: Part III and Nutty Professor, was also impressed by the work the film is doing for charity, saying she was excited »
- Colin Delaney
HotDocs 2012: The Ambassador Review
1 May 2012 6:38 AM, PDT | Twitch | See recent Twitch news »
Either Mads Brügger has balls the size of grapefruits or there is mondo chicanery going on in The Ambassador. Well, it's a given that there is trickery happening, so the thing to figure out is who the trick is on: The Central African Republic (a former French colony smack-dab in the middle of the contient), shady European dealers of grey-market diplomatic credentials, helpful local guide-advisers or us the viewers. The result is a thoroughly captivating, often hilarious bit of guerrilla filmmaking that is subversive both to its subject matter, and its medium of choice. Lets start at the beginning. Mads Brügger Cortzen is a Danish media personality that is kind of an amalgamation of Michael Moore and the Borat side of Sasha-Baron Cohen. His previous TV documentary/comedies, Danes for »
Tribeca 2012: Politics Nation
28 April 2012 5:44 PM, PDT | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »
Lucy Mulloy’s Una Noche: Javier Nuñez Florián, Anailín de la Rúa de la Torre World and national politics played an important role at the Tribeca Film Festival 2012, both on screen and off. Kim Nguyen’s War Witch, about a kidnapped African girl who is forced to become a child soldier, was chosen as the Best Narrative Feature at the festival, while Lucy Mulloy’s Una Noche, in which Cuban teenagers attempt to flee Havana for Miami, won awards for Best Director, Best Cinematography (Trevor Forrest and Shlomo Godder), and a shared award for Best Actor (Dariel Arrechada and Javier Nuñez Florián). Additionally, War Witch’s leading lady, 14-year-old Rachel Mwanza, was Tribeca’s Best Actress. The Congo-born Mwanza had previously won the Silver Bear for Best Actress at the Berlin Film Festival. [Full list of Tribeca 2012 winners.] Off screen, Una Noche caused a commotion after it was revealed that two of the film’s leads, »
- Andre Soares
Tribeca Winners: War Witch, Lucy Mulloy
28 April 2012 5:00 PM, PDT | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »
Rachel Mwanza, War Witch Tribeca 2012 Politics Nation: Una Noche Movie World Narrative Competition Categories The jurors for the 2012 World Narrative Competition were Patricia Clarkson, Dakota Fanning, Mike Newell, Lisa Schwarzbaum, Jim Sheridan, and Irwin Winkler. The Founders Award for Best Narrative Feature – War Witch, directed by Kim Nguyen (Canada). Best Actor in a Narrative Feature Film – Dariel Arrechada and Javier Nuñez Florian as Raul and Elio in Una Noche, directed by Lucy Mulloy (UK, Cuba, USA). Best Actress in a Narrative Feature Film – Rachel Mwanza as Komona in War Witch, directed by Kim Nguyen (Canada). Best Cinematography in a Narrative Feature Film – Cinematography by Trevor Forrest and Shlomo Godder, for Una Noche, directed by Lucy Mulloy (UK, Cuba, USA). Special Jury Mention – Alex Catalan for Unit 7. Best Screenplay for a Narrative Feature Film – All In (La Suerte en Tus Manos), written by Daniel Burman and Sergio Dubcovsky and directed by »
- Steve Montgomery
Tribeca Film Festival Announces 2012 Award Winners
27 April 2012 8:34 AM, PDT | backstage.com | See recent Backstage news »
The winners of the 11th annual Tribeca Film Festival's competition categories were announced Thursday night at a ceremony at the Conrad New York Hotel in New York City, where presenters included jury members Susan Sarandon, Michael Moore, Patricia Clarkson, Leelee Sobieski, Olivia Wilde, Jim Sheridan, Tff executive director Nancy Schafer, and Tff founders Robert De Niro and Jane Rosenthal.Narrative films "War Witch" and "Una Noche" were among the top honorees, continuing Tribeca's tradition of recognizing international actors and filmmakers. Both films featured nonprofessional actors who earned Tff acting awards for their revelatory lead performances."We salute the courage of the jury to award films that not only tell stories about real issues in the world, but are beautifully constructed and crafted," Tff artistic director Frederic Boyer said in a statement. "The amazing first-time performances by young actors are a tribute »
- help@backstage.com (Daniel Lehman)
War Witch Wins Top Film Prize At Tribeca
27 April 2012 1:01 AM, PDT | WENN | See recent WENN news »
War Witch and Una Noche were the big winners at the Tribeca Film Festival awards in New York this week (beg23Apr12).
Drama War Witch was named Best Narrative Feature, with Rachel Mwanza taking home the Best Actress award at the prizegiving in Manhattan on Thursday night.
Una Noche director Lucy Molloy was honoured, as were the film's cinematographers Trevor Forrest and Shlomo Godder. Dariel Arrechada and Javier Nunez Florian shared the Best Actor award for their role in the Cuban drama.
The awards were presented by the festival's founders Robert De Niro and producer Jane Rosenthal, and the jury panel, which included Patricia Clarkson, Michael Moore and Susan Sarandon. Winners received a cash prize of up to $25,000 (£13,000).
Other jurors who cast their opinion on the films include Dakota Fanning, Whoopi Goldberg, Kim Cattrall and director Brett Ratner.
Audience Award winners will be announced on Saturday. »
Tribeca Film Festival: 'War Witch,' 'Una Noche' take home top prizes
26 April 2012 5:30 PM, PDT | EW - Inside Movies | See recent EW.com - Inside Movies news »
War Witch, a Canadian-made film about a young girl who escapes from the African rebels who forced her to be a child soldier, was named Best Narrative Feature at the 11th annual Tribeca Film Festival. “This indelible character study of a girl who becomes a woman before our eyes in the midst of harrowing war gives words to the unspeakable,” said the jury, which included Patricia Clarkson, Dakota Fanning, Mike Newell, EW’s Lisa Schwarzbaum, Jim Sheridan, and Irwin Winkler. “Riveting, heartbreaking, vivid, and eloquent, the movie balances scenes of crazy enemy hatred with moments of luminous private love.”
- Jeff Labrecque
Tribeca Honors Controversial Cuban Movie
26 April 2012 5:25 PM, PDT | Huffington Post | See recent Huffington Post news »
The Tribeca Film Festival awards ceremony took place on Thursday, and the controversial Cuban film "Una Noche" turned out to be the toast of the town. Though "War Witch" won the award for Best Narrative Feature and Rachel Mwanza was named Best Actress, "Una Noche" became the breakout story of the festival after two of its actors disappeared en route to New York.
Director Lucy Mulloy, cinematographers Trevor Forrest and Shlomo Godder were honored for their work on the film. Actors Dariel Arrechada and Jaiver Nunez Florian both won Best Actor in a Narrative Feature.
Other big winners include Nisha Pahuja's "The World Before Her" for Best Documentary Feature, Bryan Buckley's "Asad" for Best Narrative Short and Frederic Golding's "On the Mat" for Best Feature Film in the festival's online competition.
Florian and Anailin de la Rua de la Torre, were flown from Cuba to the United States »
- The Huffington Post
Sundance London 2012: 'Finding North'
26 April 2012 9:00 AM, PDT | CineVue | See recent CineVue news »
★★☆☆☆ Thanks to the enormous popularising influence of filmmaker Michael Moore, American 'social issue' documentaries can now be found in relative abundance. Taking more than a few nods from past efforts such as 2008's Food, Inc, Kristi Jacobson and Lori Silverbush's oddly-titled, Civil Wars-scored Finding North (2012) seeks to highlight the hunger crisis currently sweeping America, hypothesising over the roots of this growing domestic problem.
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- CineVue
Sundance London: Finding North Review
26 April 2012 3:30 AM, PDT | HeyUGuys.co.uk | See recent HeyUGuys news »
A documentary entry in this year’s Sundance Festival, Finding North explores the ever-widening discrepancy between rich and poor in American, and those who struggle to find the funds to ensure themselves (and their families) are feed on a daily basis. The film draws parallels with the widespread obesity issue, where impoverished communities without fresh commodities (or who simply can’t afford them) are forced to eat the cheaper alternative of processed food.
Neither the tub-thumping call the arms of a Michael Moore film, nor reminiscent of those hard-hitting HBO-type explorations, Finding North is a gentler, yet still incredibly sobering polemic.
One of the narrative branches follows a young, unemployed single mother of two named Barbie, and her participation in the movement ‘Witnesses to Hunger’, which continually lobbies congress to make changes in the welfare system. In a horribly ironic twist, Barbie’s eventual joy at finding employment renders her »
- Adam Lowes
why Johnny Depp's Tonto is not a Native American Jack Sparrow (and other adventures in social networking)
24 April 2012 4:47 PM, PDT | www.flickfilosopher.com | See recent FlickFilosopher news »
What my followers on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ saw today: • Is "local" viable in the Net age? "Linda Taylor, 70, thinks that cable and the Internet have led to a decline in the quality of local television shows she watches from the kitchen television of her Herndon home. She’s disappointed by what she says is too much repetition and not enough original reporting. She can’t rely on her Washington area stations for national and international news, Taylor said." As users flock to iTunes, Hulu and Netflix, TV stations struggle to survive • Oops. Michael Moore Finding It Harder To Get People To Talk to Him • Why Johnny Depp's Tonto is not a Native American Jack Sparrow... Johnny Depp Talks the Inspiration Behind His Tonto in 'Lone Ranger' • The Telegraph illustrates a story about the Chicago L with a photo of the Mta's No 7 train in New York City. Lol. »
- MaryAnn Johanson
Susan Sarandon Under Us Government Surveillance?
24 April 2012 12:16 PM, PDT | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »
Susan Sarandon has been removed from a guest list for a White House event next week. Why? "I was denied security clearance and I don’t know why," Sarandon, 65, told the crowd attending a Q&A with herself and Michael Moore at the Tribeca Film Festival this past weekend. It gets better. As reported in The Independent, Sarandon added: "We know we are under surveillance. I’ve gotten my file twice under the Freedom of Information Act. I know my phone was tapped. If they’re not surveilling you then everyone else has cameras on their phones." If what Susan Sarandon says is accurate, that means Americans can rest assured their tax dollars are being wisely invested in the protection of their freedoms and their persons from clear and present danger. Sarandon has always espoused dangerous liberal causes, including gay rights and the Occupy Wall Street movement, and is a Unicef representative. »
- Andre Soares
Michael Moore Finding It Harder To Get People To Talk to Him
23 April 2012 8:22 PM, PDT | Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal | See recent Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal news »
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Michael Moore’s success as a documentary film maker has made his job more difficult because more people refuse to talk to him on camera, he said Sunday afternoon at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York.
“They’re afraid to talk to me, so I have to send in my production assistants to do interviews,” he told actress Susan Sarandon, who interviewed him before taking questions from the audience.
Moore, whose 2004 film “Fahrenheit 9/11″ is the highest-grossing documentary, »
- Kathy Shwiff
Susan Sarandon: Government tapping my phone, denied me White House clearance
23 April 2012 12:19 PM, PDT | Pop2it | See recent Pop2it news »
At a Tribeca Film Festival panel on Sunday (April 22), Susan Sarandon claimed not only that she was recently denied a security clearance to visit the White House, but that the government has been tapping her cell phone. Sarandon appeared with filmmaker Michael Moore on a panel about documentary filmmaking.
"We know we were under surveillance," Sarandon said in answer to a question from the audience, reports The Daily Beast's Lloyd Grove. "I've had my phone tapped."
Sarandon also talked about details she's learning from two Freedom of Information Act requests on her "file."
"I was denied a security clearance to go to the White House and I don't know why. Do you know why?" she asked the audience.
Not to be outdone, Moore asserted that he'd been the target of a "disinformation campaign," possibly engineered by the Federal government.
"I was told this by some people in the Bush administration. »
- editorial@zap2it.com
Susan Sarandon Claims Us Government Tapped Her Phone - Now Denied White House Security Clearance?
23 April 2012 10:01 AM, PDT | National Ledger | See recent National Ledger news »
Actress Susan Sarandon has claimed the Us government has tapped her phone and put her under surveillance. The Oscar winner made the claims on Sunday during a question and answer session at the Tribeca Film Festival - an 11-day event in New York's Lower Manhattan. One audience member asked whether Sarandon, who was answering questions alongside documentary filmmaker Michael Moore, believed she was under surveillance by the government. Here are some of the claims they made on Sunday, per Yahoo News: Sarandon: "I've gotten my [FBI] file twice... I know my phone was tapped. If they're not surveilling you, then everyone else has cameras on phones." She added, "I was denied security clearance to go to the White House [next week], and I don't know why." Moore says he was a target of a "disinformation campaign": "I was told this by some people in the Bush administration. They went bonkers when 'Fahrenheit' »
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