Indie news broken down by source.
October 12, 2008
17:37
Another one via Girish: "In the fall of 1958, fifty years ago, the inaugural issue of Film Quarterly was published," writes editor Rob White, "and it is fascinating to revisit those first years, when the European New Wave cinemas...
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16:57
Adrian Martin has a new book out, notes Girish, and yes, it is in Spanish: ¿Qué es el cine moderno? (What is Modern Cinema?). "It was launched last week at the Valdivia film festival in Chile. At Quintin and...
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16:19
Tony Manero has turned out to be both Aaron Hillis's and Andrew Grant's favorite feature at this year's New York Film Festival. Wrapping their series of podcasts, Aaron and Andrew talk with another fan of the film, Time Out...
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15:27
"One of the highlights from the Views from the Avant-Garde program was veteran experimental filmmaker, Ernie Gehr's New York Lantern, a painterly, intuitive, and unexpectedly political three-part composition (as demarcated by three distinct musical scores) assembled from black and...
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13:11
"Following his most even-handed exploration of male-female sexual conflict in Woman on the Beach, Hong Sang-soo hurtles full-bore into the subjectivity of the horny man with Night and Day," writes Kevin B Lee in Slant. "For what it's worth,...
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October 11, 2008
19:13
Duncan Campbell writes the "Life in Film" column for the new issue of frieze: "Firstly, I'd like to pay my dues to John T Davis. Davis was born in Belfast. His first experience of filmmaking came via a chance...
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18:58
"I come from Portugal, but I have not spoken Portuguese in years. I am proud of this, even though I have never learnt to speak another language properly. I suppose you could say that makes me feel twice as...
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17:35
How to spend the New York Film Festival's last weekend? John Magary has recommendations at the Reeler. The Nation's letting non-subscribers see only a bit of Stuart Klawans's NYFF dispatch, but even just that bit's very much worth noting:...
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16:03
"The only thing, perhaps, that has prevented [Andrzej] Wajda from becoming the sort of art-household name that Fellini and Bergman and Antonioni became is that his style, unlike those of his more famous contemporaries, is changeable, unsettled, hard to...
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October 10, 2008
18:53
Twitch's Todd Brown is at Sitges, and he's been busy as hell. He talks with King of the Hill director Gonzalo Lopez, who's got "two productions gearing up in North America and a third in Spain"; notes that Let...
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10:09
"What's bold one day becomes blasé the next, and the sub-subgenre known as mumblecore had no sooner been declared cinema's lo-fi savior than people started sharpening their knives," writes David Fear in Time Out New York. "The result: We've...
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10:03
"Welcome to the gay family film," writes Rachel Abramowitz in the Los Angeles Times, "as mild and sweet as anything out of the Disney empire. [Breakfast with Scot] stars Ed's Tom Cavanagh and Angels in America's Ben Shenkman as...
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09:44
"The exasperated rumble of dying machinery - to our pampered ears, the sound of civilization ending - is the aural backdrop of City of Ember, a grim fantasy about a cloistered subterranean metropolis that wants to be both a...
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October 9, 2008
19:39
'"There are currently two fantastic art exhibitions in Los Angeles that cinephiles won't want to miss, both offered by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences," notes Doug Cummings. "I've already written about Frédéric Back: A Life's Drawings...
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17:28
The full title of the event that'll be the talk of the town in London from October 15 through 30 is The Times BFI 52nd London Film Festival. And now, both entities are presenting big editorial packages to whip...
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11:37
Aaron Hillis and Andrew Grant have all sorts of questions for Scott Foundas, film critic for the LA Weekly and Variety, and New York Film Festival selection committee member. First, of course, is the story of how he wound...
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11:20
Opening up the Austin Chronicle's Austin Film Festival preview package, Kimberly Jones finds lots to laugh about: "Hitting every shade of funny from sunshine-silly to black, blacker, blackest comedy, exhibits A through C: award recipients such as The Office's...
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09:14
The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2008 has been awarded to the French writer Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio, "author of new departures, poetic adventure and sensual ecstasy, explorer of a humanity beyond and below the reigning civilization." What a...
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06:03
We begin with David D'Arcy's take (see also the entries on Waltz with Bashir and Gomorrah); others follow. The Windmill Movie is the film that Richard P "Dick" Rogers wanted to make, and tried to make, for much of his...
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04:31
Rallying to the defense of Clint Eastwood's Changeling [site] are Mike D'Angelo and Glenn Kenny; arguing the case against it are Andrew Grant and Aaron Hillis. To listen or download click here. "Why this film was chosen as the...
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