AURORA A/V GEEKS DO IT FOR THE KIDS
Houston’s always-cool Aurora Picture Show has put together a special screening — Children’s Films from A/V Geeks. The event is curated by Skip Elsheimer, a rabid collector of old 16mm educational films. You can check out the event on Saturday, June 29th at 3PM, and again on Sunday, June 30th at 3PM. The classic children’s [...]
Posted on June 27, 2002 by Film Threat Staff
KODAK INTRODUCES NEW CAMERA
The Kodak Digital Cinema system, which includes a flexible operating system and a high-quality projector, has been improved since its last demonstration at the ShoWest conference in the U.S. four months ago. Projectionists will be pleased to know that the revamped Kodak Digital Cinema Operating System (COS) includes a mini-server and projector for each screen [...]
Posted on June 27, 2002 by Film Threat Staff
INTERNATIONAL AWARDS AT 2002 FLORIDA FEST
The Florida Film Festival announces the 2002 Audience Awards for Best International Feature and Short…
Posted on June 27, 2002 by Film Threat Staff
KEVIN POLLAK HOSTS 2002 SKYY SHORT FILM AWARDS
Actor Kevin Pollak hosts the 2002 SKYY Vodka Short Film Awards at the Los Angeles Film Festival…
Posted on June 27, 2002 by Film Threat Staff
“METROPOLIS” RE-RELEASED IN JULY
As many fans know, “Metropolis” was drastically cut within three weeks after its 1927 release in Germany. The film has been painstakingly researched and digitally restored from positive prints, dupe negatives and camera originals assembled from around the world. A fully restored print of Fritz Lang’s silent masterpiece “Metropolis” gets a full theatrical re-release next month in New York before expanding to screens across the country…
Posted on June 26, 2002 by Film Threat Staff
“THE TOWN IS QUIET” IN HOUSTON
Houston’s Angelika Film Center is screening director Robert Guediguian’s slice-of-life drama “The Town is Quiet” (“La Ville est Tranquile”) through June 27th, 2002. The film brings the landscape of modern Marseilles to life by telling the story of several characters whose experiences overlap and influence one another in tragic and surprising ways. Director Guediguian says [...]
Posted on June 26, 2002 by Film Threat Staff
N.Y.’S PIONEER, SLAMDANCE SHORTS AND BEER
Do you want to watch films the way they were meant to be seen — with a full stomach of free pizza and beer? Then come see Slamdance Co-Founder Dan Mirvish’s New York premiere of his short film “Open House,” along with Slamdance NY-Bureau Chief Paul Rachman’s short “Home” and Slamdance 2001 film “Lefty-Right” by [...]
Posted on June 26, 2002 by Film Threat Staff
CHEAP SHOT AT THE PENNY ARCADE
The June 24th, 2002 online comic from cool gaming site Penny Arcade has a little something to say about “Minority Report” and a notorious Know(les)-it-all film critic. If the comic strip isn’t live when you get a chance to check it out, search the Archives for My Minority Report Report. And while you’re at it, [...]
Posted on June 26, 2002 by Film Threat Staff
WINNERS AT 2002 BROOKLYN FILM FEST
The Brooklyn International Film Festival annouces the award-winning films from their 2002 event…
Posted on June 26, 2002 by Film Threat Staff
CHARACTERS
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  Year Released: 2001 MPAA Rating: R Running Time: 97 minutes |
Not even in the stank-filled halls of the San Diego Comic Con do you hear as much shameless referencing as you do in “Characters”…
Posted on June 26, 2002 by Eric Campos
ALAMO HOSTS ORIGINAL “INSOMNIA”
From June 24th through June 26th, 2002, Austin’s Alamo Drafthouse will screen the original 1997 “Insomnia” by filmmaker Erik Skjoldbjærg. As you may already know (thanks to the remake), the film centers on two criminal investigators arrive in a town in the north of Norway to help the local police solve the murder of a [...]
Posted on June 25, 2002 by Film Threat Staff
“HORNS AND HALOS” IN HOLLYWOOD
In July, Hollywood’s American Cinematheque is presenting THE ALTERNATIVE SCREEN: INDEPENDENT FILM SHOWCASE. On Thursday, July 11th at 7:30PM, they will screen the the L.A. Premiere of Suki Hawley & Michael Galinsky’s New York Underground Film Festival Award-Winning doc “Horns and Halos” (2002, 84 min., USA), which captures the “harships of a punk rock publisher [...]
Posted on June 25, 2002 by Film Threat Staff
THE MYSTERY OF “KILLER ME”
“Killer Me” is a bare, gritty feature that has Film Threat convinced that “real filmmakers are actually still out there.” The film is best described as a close cousin of Peter Bogdanovich’s “Targets” and Michael Powell’s “Peeping Tom”: Joseph Sturgeon awakes one morning, hands covered in blood, a badly infected wound on his ribcage. He [...]
Posted on June 25, 2002 by Film Threat Staff
TIME TO MEET “ROBOT BASTARD”
With a great showing at the 2002 Sonoma Film Festival now under its shiny metal belt, “Robot Bastard” has once again proven why it’s one of the coolest indie shorts in the galaxy: Robot Bastard exists in an eight-grade-boy universe of Robots, Rocket ships and cute girls. Escape to the colorful adventure in the first [...]
Posted on June 25, 2002 by Film Threat Staff
SUNDANCE CHANNEL + CRITERION = TRUE LOVE
The Sundance Channel and Criterion have teamed up once again to kill your summer boredom with an oustanding schedule of some of the best features in film history…
Posted on June 25, 2002 by Film Threat Staff