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Laff Review: Lake Bell's 'In a World' a Hilarious Feminist Comedy About the Power of Voice
5 hours ago
What’s in a voice? Power, for one thing. The power to tell people things -- anything from an update on a global crisis to the general gist of a young adult movie franchise. This idea is at the center of Lake Bell’s hilarious, sincere and boldly feminist comedy “In a World,” which she wrote, directed and stars in. Carol (Bell) is a vocal coach eking out a living in Los Angeles. She’s in the shadow of her father, Sam Soto (Fred Melamed), one of the bigwigs in the field of movie-trailer voiceovers, a profession Carol would love to break into if it weren’t so male-dominated and if Dad weren’t so offhandedly unsupportive of her ambitions. But when she wins a gig voicing the preview for a “children’s romantic comedy” (ha!), and then another and another, Carol starts to think she might have some traction »
- Beth Hanna
Review: Tragi-Comedy 'Act of Killing' Confronts the Killer Inside (Trailer)
10 hours ago
With his documentary festival hit "The Act of Killing," which just screened at Laff, Joshua Oppenheimer has reset the bar for tragi-comedy. As in, don’t even bother trying, Hollywood. Ever again. In fact, why don’t we just dispense with next year’s Oscar race right now and give both the best documentary and the best feature award to this film? It even has a musical within it, so it could take that category at the Globes, too. Drafthouse opens the movie limited on July 19. "The Act of Killing" is so disturbing on so many levels, it’s difficult to know where – and how -- to begin. It opens with one of the most beautiful images you’ll ever see, a building in the shape of a fish with a line of Indonesian women in fluorescent pink dancing out of its mouth. Two intense hours later the film ends »
- Tom Christie
San Francisco Film Society Announces 13 Finalists for Documentary Film Fund Awards
10 hours ago
The San Francisco Film Society has announced the 13 finalists for the 2013 Sffs Documentary Film Fund awards totaling $100,000, which support feature-length documentary films in post-production. Finalists were selected from more than 200 applicants; full list below. The winners will be announced in late July. More info on the film funds is here.2013 Documentary Film Fund Finalists:Above All Else — John Fiege, director/producerAbove All Else is the remarkable story of how one man’s struggle to protect his family from the Keystone Xl pipeline transformed the fight against climate change in America. For more information visit aboveallelsefilm.com. Art and Craft — Jennifer Grausman and Sam Cullman, co-director/producersExamining the curious story of a prolific art forger who isn't in it for the money—but chooses instead to donate his work to museums—Art and Craft uncovers one of the most intriguing cases of deception in art history. Filmed at the moment his ruse is exposed, »
- Beth Hanna
Joseph Gordon-Levitt Has Scarlett Johansson Meet the Parents in New Clip for 'Don Jon' (Video)
10 hours ago
A first red-band clip has been released for Joseph Gordon-Levitt's directorial debut, "Don Jon." In the clip, Gordon-Levitt's Jon introduces his comely new girlfriend, Barbara (Scarlett Johansson, showing off a funny Jersey accent), to his parents. Needless to say, Dad (played by Tony Danza) is impressed. Watch below. The comedy deals with the uncomfortable subject of porn addiction. Jon's the one with the dirty habit, at odds with Barbara's romantic Hollywood fantasies. Julianne Moore, Brie Larson and Rob Brown also star. Here's a more in-depth synopsis:Jon Martello (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) is a strong, handsome, good old fashioned guy. His buddies call him Don Jon due to his ability to “pull” a different woman every weekend, but even the finest fling doesn’t compare to the bliss he finds alone in front of the computer watching pornography. Barbara Sugarman (Scarlett Johansson) is a bright, beautiful, good old fashioned girl. Raised on romantic Hollywood movies, »
- Beth Hanna
Indiewire Launches Its First-Ever Influencers List: The 40 Names Who Are Changing Independent Film
11 hours ago
Indiewire has posted its first-ever Influencers list, dedicated to the 40 people and companies who, in the words of editor-in-chief Dana Harris, "have captured our attention as we watch them try to figure out what the independent film industry is today and, more importantly, what it will become." The list is broken down into five categories, all unranked: The Brokers, the Curators, the Creators, the Shapeshifters and the Early Adopters. The process in selecting the 40 names came from asking people across the industry who they thought were influencing business right now. Not just the individuals and companies who have proven that they can get it right, but also those bold enough to risk getting it wrong in the name of doing something new. Included on the list are names as disparate as the Weinstein Co. boutique label RADiUS, Tugg's Nicolas Gonda, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, "Veronica Mars," Megan Ellison, the Alamo Drafthouse's Tim League and Ava DuVernay. »
- Beth Hanna
The Hitchcock 9 Kicks Off at San Francisco Silent Film Festival
11 hours ago
Alfred Hitchcock, one of the first directors to establish his personality as a brand, has always been a part of the zeitgeist. The most famous director is having a very good year. It was just last August that his 1958 film "Vertigo" displaced "Citizen Kane" at the pinnacle of the every-ten-year list of the greatest movies ever made conducted by the venerable British magazine "Sight and Sound." And his personal life -- his fetish for the cool blonde whose refined appearance masks vivid sexuality -- inspired two movies, HBO's "The Girl," with Toby Jones as the master and Sienna Miller as Tippi Hedren, and "Hitchcock," starring Anthony Hopkins as Hitch, Helen Mirren as a reimagined Alma Hitchcock, and Scarlett Johansson as Janet Leigh. (At least if you believe that, as long as you spell his name right, it's good publicity. Otherwise we might not count "The Girl" and "Hitchcock" in the plus column. »
- Meredith Brody
Watch: Pitt Talks 'World War Z' on Good Morning America, Says Jolie Back to "Business As Usual" Following Surgery
11 hours ago
Brad Pitt appeared on "Good Morning America" today, chatting with George Stephanopoulos about his upcoming "World War Z" (June 21), and also discussing Angelina Jolie's decision earlier this year to undergo a preventative double mastectomy. Pitt says Jolie is resilient following the surgery: "Business as usual." Watch below. Pitt has been on the promo trail for the zombie apocalypse film, making surprise appearances at various pop-up screenings around the country; his tour is also international, telling Stephanopoulos that the next country he'll visit is Russia. Jolie's eloquent New York Times piece about her decision to undergo surgery is here. Unfortunately your browser does not support IFrames. »
- Beth Hanna
Lacma's 2013 Art + Film Gala to Honor Martin Scorsese and Artist David Hockney
12 hours ago
Lacma, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, will honor on Saturday, November 2 director Martin Scorsese and artist David Hockney for its 2013 Art + Film Gala. Also being celebrated is the first collaboration between Scorsese's Film Foundation, Lacma and the Annenberg Foundation to preserve four films by French auteur Agnes Varda. Now in its third year, the Gala is co-chaired by Leonardo DiCaprio and Lacma trustee Eva Chow, and notables from the art, film, fashion and entertainment industries will unite for the evening. DiCaprio has starred in a number of Scorsese's films, including the upcoming "The Wolf of Wall Street," set to hit theaters in November (trailer here). »
- Beth Hanna
Trailers from Hell: Mick Garris on Tobe Hooper's 'Poltergeist'
13 hours ago
Mick Garris' House of Horrors kicks off this week at Trailers from Hell, with director Garris introducing Tobe Hooper's 1982 film, "Poltergeist.""They're he-eere!" Hooper's fifth feature was his biggest to date, produced on a grand scale by co-writer Steven Spielberg the same year he made Et. Its critical and boxoffice success was undercut by persistent rumors that Spielberg had co-opted the film much like Howard Hawks did with Christian Nyby (on The Thing) and shadow-directed, a claim both filmmakers denied. The untimely deaths of several people connected with the production gave rise in some quarters to the claim the franchise was somehow "cursed". Followed by Poltergest II: The Other Side and Poltergeist III, neither of which involved Spielberg or Hooper. »
- Trailers From Hell
Watch: First Trailer for Scorsese's 'Wolf of Wall Street,' Starring DiCaprio, McConaughey and Hill
13 hours ago
The first trailer for Martin Scorsese's "The Wolf of Wall Street" has landed. The Paramount film, set to hit theaters November 15 in time for Oscar season, stars Leonardo DiCaprio as a hard-living stockbroker, along with Matthew McConaughey--on a roll these days as "Mud" kicks ass across the country--Kyle Chandler and Jonah Hill. The film is based on the memoirs by Jordan Belfort, who recounts his rise and fall in the 1980s Wall Street financial scene. The adaptation is penned by Terence Winter ("Boardwalk Empire"). The trailer is set to the raucous new Kanye West song, "Black Skinhead." »
- Beth Hanna
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