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Oprah's New Network Starts a Film Club
9 December 2009 9:14 AM, PST
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By Josef Adalian
Oprah Winfrey is getting into business with the filmmakers behind "Jesus Camp" and "Born Into Brothels."
Winfrey's Own has struck a partnership with Ro*Co Productions that will result in the creation of a documentary film club not unlike Winfrey's famed book club. Own will air one Ro*Co documentary each month and build a multiplatform "experience" around the film to turn it into what the network calls an "event."
Own didn't say Winfrey would participate in the series, though it's not hard to see a scenario where the franchise is dubbed &
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- Adalian
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2010 Sundance Film Festival Line-Up Announced
3 December 2009 10:01 AM, PST
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It's almost that time of year again! The Sundance Film Festival unveiled their 2010 line-up yesterday, which includes 112 feature-length films from 39 different countries. As always, the vast majority of filmmakers are unknowns, and many are first-time directors, so it's kind of hard to tell which ones hold the most promise. However, you can bet that a number of these will be movies that people are raving about by the end of 2010. A few of the highlights include:
Sympathy for Delicious: Directed by Mark Ruffalo and starring Orlando Bloom as a paralyzed DJ who seeks out the world of faith healing.
Howl: Starring James Franco as the beat poet Allen Ginsberg.
Casino Jack & The United States of Money:Alex Gibney-directed doc about D.C. super-lobbyist Jack Abramoff.
Lucky: Documentary about lottery winners by Jeffrey Blitz (Spellbound).
Welcome to the Rileys: Kristen Stewart plays a young stripper who forms a
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- Sean
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Heidi Montag set to dumb down The View
25 September 2009 9:06 AM, PDT
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Birthday girl Barbara Walters and Bill Geddie, have you no shame for the almighty ratings game? The dimmest bulb in Tinseltown, the PG-rated Playboy spread, the reality Jesus camp queen known as Heidi Montag whose claim to fame was getting into an MTV orchestrated bitchfight with Lauren Conrad, then hooking up with a pathological personality who will say damned near anything into an open mic is confirmed to be co-Hosting The View. Elisabeth Hasselbeck, the lone Gop wolf, is out with her new baby friend on maternity leave. The producers are filling in the slot with an assortment of celebrities to continue the estrogen-fueled chit chat in the morning. Heidi Montag, the ex "The Hills" star, 23, will
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- April MacIntyre
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Audrina Patridge takes parting shots, departs 'The Hills'
1 September 2009 8:18 AM, PDT
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"The Hills" girls have done very well for themselves in sniping at each other in carefully orchestrated publicity moves designed to maximize each one's own interests. Whether it was a dilettante fashion career of Lauren Conrad, or a "singing" career for Jesus camp graduate Heidi Montag. Audrina Patridge is savvy to the ways of the MTV Oompa Loompa posse too. Patridge let loose with sharp words for the wooden performance by her once co-star Heidi Montag, delivered at the Miss Universe competition performance. "I feel like Heidi, you know, she's doing it for fun, where a lot of singers and people, they work their ass off, and they actually have amazing voices and they can really sing and
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- April MacIntyre
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Shinsedai Festival 09: The New God Review
27 August 2009 5:20 AM, PDT
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[The fledgling Shinsedai Cinema Festival, programmed by Midnight Eye’s Jasper Sharp and Toronto J-Film PowWow’s Chris MaGee, hits a bulls-eye in showcasing unique and provoking independent Japanese Cinema. The New God, was certainly a highlight]
After watching the alleged hypocrisy of a few Us senators in Kirby Dick’s gay outing documentary Outrage and the oily charisma of Ted Haggard, as featured in Jesus Camp (before he was thrown out of his own mega-church for drugs and homosexual prostitutes) it does lend you to wonder how certain extreme personalities in positions of power crave the spotlight for their own twisted public therapy sessions. Right-wing political activist and ex-wrist-cutter Karin Amamiya may not have the reach of those influential white men, albiet she is somewhat of a youth icon currently in Japan, but she certainly comes across as loud and confusing and yes, quite interesting in Yutaka Tsuchiya’s The New God. His film is the only philosophically political romantic comedy rockumentary that I am aware of. And I want more films in this zany new sub-genre!
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- Kurt Halfyard
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Recap: 'True Blood' - 'I Will Rise Up'
16 August 2009 11:12 PM, PDT
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Errrrybody stand back! Jealous Hick has a bomb, and Lorena is crying blood! It's armageddon at Club Vampire! Jealous Hick detonates a bomb laced with silver at Godric's house, and some vampires and humans get done blowed up. One of the dead vampires is Stan, the Urban Cowboy leader of the Dallas nest. Eric shelters Sookie from the blast and orders Vampire Bill to chase after any and all other Sunshine Jesus Camp conspirators in the vicinity. Bill finds a van full of religoids who abetted the bomber and bites one of their Jesus-lovin' necks. [Full recap of Sunday (Aug. 16)
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- Leslie Gornstein
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Leighton Meester and Michelle Trachtenberg get close filming "Gossip Girl"
3 August 2009 3:00 PM, PDT
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Spotted: Leighton Meester and Michelle Trachtenberg filming Gossip Girl's third season on the streets of Manhattan. Is it just me or are their faces awfully close together for two Nyu roomies having a chat? Could this be Christmas come early? Careful, B, you know what they say: Flip one letter, and Santa becomes Satan.
Wow, that was so easy. I could totally be Gossip Girl — I don't even need tweens to send me cell phone photos; these images are all over Getty. Seriously, though: what is going on in that picture? Meester and Trachtenberg goofing off? Blair and Georgina hooking up? They did not teach that at Jesus Camp when I was a teenager.
And look, here's another one:
This time you know it's just paling around; B would never cheat on S with Vanessa.
Where is S anyway? Ah, there she is.
(It's not just me, right? I mean,
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- stuntdouble
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HBO's True Blood, episode five, some thoughts
20 July 2009 9:31 AM, PDT
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Full disclosure: I did not care for "True Blood" when it debuted last year. It wasn't until the last three episodes of the southern gothic Alan Ball/Charlaine Harris gumbo of oversexed humans and vamps that made me see the darkness. Now I can't shut up about how much I love HBO's hemophagic soap. An interesting thing has occurred since the first season. In last night's episode five, which saw Jason (Ryan Kwanten) get a Holy hand job in the bathtub from the resident "Eve" of Jesus Camp, the preacher's blonde wife, Sarah Newlin, the focus of this series has shifted for me. This sudsy sex scene was an eye-opener for sure, but not as intriguing as what
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- April MacIntyre
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134 New Names Invited to Join the Academy
1 July 2009 1:08 AM, PDT
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Yesterday came the yearly announcement from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences as it extended 134 invitations to several artists and executives "who have distinguished themselves by their contributions to theatrical motion pictures" read the press release. Of course all of them can decline, but I wouldn't necessarily expect that to happen as all who accept the invitation will be the only additions in 2009 to the Academy's roster of voting members.
"These filmmakers have, over the course of their careers, captured the imagination of audiences around the world," said Academy President Sid Ganis. "It's this kind of talent and creativity that make up the Academy, and I welcome each of them to our ranks."
The list follows below and reading around the best analysis I saw of it came from Nathaniel Rogers at The Film Experience who, among other things, pointed out the addition of longtime Darren Aronofsky's
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- Brad Brevet
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Heidi And Spencer Come Back, Throw Up, Find Jesus And Leave … Again
9 June 2009 10:09 AM, PDT
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I want to sue NBC for torturing me by making Monday night’s “I’m a Celebrity … Get Me Out of Here!” two-hours long. Not cool.
“But Jim,” NBC might argue, “we had so much to cover, what with Speidi returning and then Heidi getting sick and then Janice having a panic attack and Lou Diamond Phillips busting out a British accent!”
Phooey.
So Speidi survived a night in The Lost Chamber. It was completely uneventful. The drama began when they returned to the camp. A newly-spiritual Spencer told his castmates the tale of his recent awakening. It involved a tremendous amount of vomit, or as he and Heidi put it, getting rid of the demons. (Their word choice will make my next hangover feel supernatural! Thanks, guys!) In fact, now Spencer was so charged with the Holy Spirit that he and Heidi were fasting for God. Seriously. All the
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- Jim Cantiello
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Audience Of One Review
8 May 2009 1:11 PM, PDT
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Where Jesus Camp played the conflict between contemporary evangelical Christianity and the secular community for liberal-baiting horror, Michael Jacobs takes the route of real-life mockumentary with Audience of One, which debuted at SXSW in 2007 and concludes a long festival run with a run in Chicago last week and its New York premiere this weekend. It’s a lighter approach applied to a culture war battle with somewhat less urgency, but its own less-than-optimistic implications.
Jacobs finds an unwitting star in Richard Gazowsky, second-generation pastor of the Voice of Pentecost church in San Francisco, and the would-be director of Gravity: The Shadow of Joseph, an epic evangelical sci-flick to which he and his churchgoers have devoted their lives and sunk their savings. Gazowsky calls his “studio” Wysiwyg –– that is, “What you see is what you get”; though Richard explains that the name has something to do wi
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- Karina Longworth
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Life as an "Interquel"
30 March 2009 7:18 AM, PDT
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This week finds us lampooning the '50s, waxing nostalgic about the '80s and lamenting the fact that Vin Diesel ever made it out of the early '00s. There are also high school kids trying to get off, Brian Cox trying to get out and the finest nomadic goat herder rom-com you'll ever see.
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"Adventureland"
Having played no small part in shepherding in the current bromance boom, "Superbad" director Greg Mottola reverts back to the more traditional boy-meets-girl formula for this '80s comedy based on his own experience working amidst the disheveled and dispirited at a Long Island theme park. Perennially awkward Jesse Eisenberg stars as James Brennan, who, having realized a tad too late that a degree in renaissance literature was not the fastest track to six figures, resigns himself to minimum wage eternity while making
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- Neil Pedley
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