DEFF TAKES OVER SMFF

DEFF TAKES OVER SMFF

As reported in November, in a report on Film Threat titled, MOXIE PROGRAM DIRECTOR RESIGNS, the Santa Monica Film Festival was seeking an organization to...

LOST FILM FEST BRINGS JELLO

The Lost Film Festival will be happening concurrently with Sundance in Park City, Utah this year. Lost Film is an underground alternative to the...

Interviews

“GHOST WORLD” APPEARS: A DAN CLOWES INTERVIEW

I see about 300 movies a year. Frankly, most of them are crap. But every once in a while a film comes along that renews my faith in movies. Something...

Reviews

A SONG FOR MARTIN (En Sång för Martin)

A devoted spouse stands by the Alzheimer's-stricken significant other, a celebrated artistic genius. I speak not of Iris, but Bille August's...

Reviews

PIñERO

Miguel Piñero was a thief, a junkie, an ex-con, and a celebrated poet/playwright/actor who died at the tragically young age of 41 -- in short, a role...

Reviews

FINAL

"You were found next to a 1953 Ford, hypothermic, unconscious, at a quarry by a cliff," says an iceberg of a psychiatrist (Hope Davis) to confused mental...

News

CUT OFF HIS FEET

Documentary filmmakers in search of a subject better hurry as this man intends to cut off his feet. No, he's not kidding. On January 5th, live via the...

TROMADANCE 2002 OFFICIAL SELECTIONS

TromaDance 2002 is set to kick off with a slate of the strangest films playing in Park City, Utah. While the official screening schedule has not yet been...

Interviews

GOOD AS GOLD: AN ARI GOLD INTERVIEW

Ari Gold's Helicopter is perhaps this year's most honored short film. Having played more than 25 major film festivals, Helicopter has catapulted Gold to...

Reviews

SHIRI

Normally, you'd expect a film from someplace like Korea to open on maybe a dozen art-house screens across the United States. If there were any justice,...