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6 December 2011 2:24 PM, PST | FamousMonsters of Filmland | See recent Famous Monsters of Filmland news »

Outside of maybe Harry And The Hendersons, there’s not too many Bigfoot movies that showcase the creature in a kinder light. Every once and a while a film dares to be different and that’s definitely the case with Letters From The Big Man. I’m not exactly sinking my teeth into the concept, but it scores for being unusual. Go ahead and take a peek at the trailer below and let us know how you feel about Letters From The Big Man:

After swearing off relationships, a fiercely individualistic artist named Sarah (Lily Rabe, daughter of the late Jill Clayburgh) takes to the woods with the dual goals of surveying a stream and finding herself. As she ventures deeper into the wilds of southwestern Oregon, a series of strange incidents lead her to suspect that she isn’t alone, after all. Before long, Sarah’s mysterious neighbor »

- Elvis

11 November 2011 12:15 PM, PST | MUBI | See recent MUBI news »

"In five features over two decades Christopher Munch has cultivated a singular career on the margins of the independent film world," begins Dennis Lim in the New York Times. "Although his debut, The Hours and Times (1991), was grouped with the emerging New Queer Cinema, Mr Munch, 49, has never fit in with a movement, and it's hard to think of another working American filmmaker with a similar sensibility or array of interests."

Writing in Filmmaker, Howard Feinstein suggests that Munch "explores that chaotic region where two forms of desire butt up against each other: the wish for a more perfect world, for one, usually depicted as majestic nature and whatever beauty man might have put into it (the old, deserted railroad in Color of a Brisk and Leaping Day [1996]) — an American version of classic German Romanticism, or blood and soil when taken to a nationalist extreme; and two, the physical attraction »

9 November 2011 7:58 AM, PST | Filmmaker Magazine - Blog | See recent Filmmaker Magazine news »

American independent director Christopher Munch has been making movies now for over 30 years — longer if you count the award-winning short he directed for a PBS affiliate at age 15 about the San Diego Zoo — carving a niche for himself on the international festival circuit as a shape-shifting film artist with a highly idiosyncratic voice. In 1992, Munch won a Special Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival for his 57-minute black-and-white feature The Hours and Times, a talky, speculative film about an erotically charged weekend that John Lennon and his manager Brian Epstein purportedly spent in Barcelona in 1963. Four years later, the California native won the “Someone to Watch” Award at the Independent Spirit Awards for Color of a Brisk and Leaping Day, a gorgeously photographed period film about a Chinese-American man’s deep historical and spiritual connection to the Yosemite Valley Railroad, an old-world relic which he attempts to save from »

- Damon Smith

6 November 2011 12:26 PM, PST | Filmmaker Magazine - Blog | See recent Filmmaker Magazine news »

Movie lovers with a prolonged case of the Munchies could soon be sated. Indie-pure director Christopher Munch is back, in fine form, with his latest film, Letters From the Big Man.

Munch imbues his works with a distinct nostalgic longing. The Germans have a precise word for it: Sehnsucht. He explores that chaotic region where two forms of desire butt up against each other: the wish for a more perfect world, for one, usually depicted as majestic nature and whatever beauty man might have put into it (the old, deserted railroad in Color of a Brisk and Leaping Day) — an American version of classic German Romanticism, or blood and soil when taken to a nationalist extreme; and two, the physical attraction of one living being toward another. The latter might be a gay man’s unrequited feelings toward a disinterested straight man (The Hours and Times), or even two brothers »

- Howard Feinstein

13 October 2011 7:20 AM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »

The Longest Cocktail Party will document tumultuous period between founding of Apple Records and sessions for Let It Be

Michael Winterbottom is to bring the story of the final years of the Beatles to the big screen in The Longest Cocktail Party, reports the Playlist.

The Fab Four have been immortalised on film on many occasions, but Winterbottom's take would appear to be a rare glimpse of the band at the peak of their powers. Based on Richard Dilello's book, it will trace the timeline from the founding of Apple Records in 1968 to the tumultuous sessions for the final Beatles album, Let It Be.

Dilello worked for Apple Records between 1968 and 1970, writing The Longest Cocktail Party about his experiences. The title is a reference to the company's penchant for entertaining guests at lavish free events in the final days of the swinging 60s, a habit which helped bring Apple »

- Ben Child

25 January 2011 10:30 AM, PST | TribecaFilm.com | See recent Tribeca Film news »

Recalling the heyday of New Queer Cinema, Gregg Araki brings back the ‘90s with the college-set Kaboom, depicting a pansexual college experience where students are more concerned with hallucinogens and getting laid than studying. While 1992's The Living End wasn't Araki's debut film, it was the first one to bring him anything approaching mainstream attention. Its depiction of a couple of gay, HIV-positive outlaws on the run drew on the AIDS activism of the late ‘80s and early ‘90s, and it was often linked with films like Todd Haynes' Poison and Christopher Munch's The Hours and Times as part of the New Queer Cinema movement. Araki has proved adept at reinventing himself. Nothing in The Living End suggested that one day he would make a stoner comedy like Smiley Face, or a drama as sober as Mysterious Skin, which brought him back into critical favor after years of inaction. »

6 items from 2011