SIFF 2012 – SEASONAL AFFECTIVE CINEMA, PART 3
So far, I’ve surfed through only three of the 13 theaters participating in SIFF, and already seen truly magnificent stories (“Eden”) as well as pompous drivel (“Dreams of a Life”). It’s all good, even if it’s bad…
Posted on May 30, 2012 by KJ Doughton
SIFF 2012: SEASONAL AFFECTIVE CINEMA, PART 2: “EDEN”
Each year, there’s a SIFF movie that knocks my socks off and resonates long into the summer. For SIFF 2012, it’s “Eden,” a troubling stunner…
Posted on May 27, 2012 by KJ Doughton
SIFF 2012: SEASONAL AFFECTIVE CINEMA
Skies are so oppressively black, it seems a strange, novel oddity when the sun actually does peek through. So why does 2012’s Seattle International Film Festival further enhance the drizzle, with so much celluloid sadness and digital despair? Forget SAD. This is Seasonal Affective Cinema…
Posted on May 23, 2012 by KJ Doughton
2012 PHOENIX FILM FESTIVAL – DAY FOUR
A sentiment echoed repeatedly throughout the night was that this was PFF’s finest year yet. With that, I absolutely concur…
Posted on April 3, 2012 by Paul Osborne
2012 PHOENIX FILM FESTIVAL – DAY THREE
It’s a universal truth – as a film festival progresses, the filmmakers move slower and slower. Full days of screenings followed by late nights of partying gradually take their toll as, one by one, the attendees find the limits of their physical endurance…
Posted on April 1, 2012 by Paul Osborne
2012 PHOENIX FILM FESTIVAL – DAY TWO
Last week I got a text from Jason Carney, grand poobah of the Phoenix Film Festival. It read simply, “Wanna do something crazy?”
Posted on March 31, 2012 by Paul Osborne
2012 PHOENIX FILM FESTIVAL – DAY ONE
Throughout the next four days I will report from these, the PFF trenches. You couldn’t make it here? Then allow me to you entertain you with this – the Phoenix Film Festival vicarious experience…
Posted on March 30, 2012 by Paul Osborne
REVISITING THE DOCUMENTARIES: “BHUTTO”
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Born on June 21, 1953, Bhutto was assassinated on December 27, 2007. Her murderers remain unknown, and at large…
Posted on March 29, 2012 by Amy R. Handler
CINEMA’S APPROACH TO THE AGING PROCESS
Here aging, death, and the undead are all considered morally corrupt, and something only the good can eliminate…
Posted on February 9, 2012 by Amy R. Handler
YOU’VE BEEN SOPA’D!
While I have nothing against a corporation, or person, getting their compensation for their copyright being infringed upon, I am against a “guilty until proven innocent” system that requires very little data to convict someone…
Posted on December 27, 2011 by Mark Bell
THE GIRLS WITH THE DRAGON TATTOOS: A COMPARISON
This particular blog entry is going to focus on the comparisons and contrasts of Stieg Larrson’s original book, Niels Arden Oplev’s 2009 adaptation and David Fincher’s 2011 adaptation. This entry will therefore be very spoiler-laden…
Posted on December 22, 2011 by Mark Bell
“BRIDESMAIDS” REVISITED: TOP 11 REASONS IT WAS STRANGELY DISAPPOINTING
To be clear, I found “Bridesmaids” to be genuinely entertaining and I’m happy it’s getting awards consideration this season. That said, I saw it in its third or fourth week of general release last summer and I couldn’t help but feel disappointed in a few ways – some objective, some not so much…
Posted on December 22, 2011 by Dan Mirvish
FILM FESTIVAL NOTEBOOK WITH HEIDI VAN LIER: CHICAGO KICKSTARTER TOUR
Indie filmmaker Heidi Van Lier snaps pix on her festival and film journeys around the world. This week, Heidi shares photos from her recent visit to Chicago in support of the Kickstarter campaign for her new documentary, The Bullfighter, about her father, Chicago Bulls legend Norm Van Lier…
Posted on December 14, 2011 by Heidi Van Lier
A YEAR WITHOUT RENT: DAY EIGHT OF “THE STAGG DO”
Between Day 7 and 8 of THE STAGG DO was a day off. Being filmmakers, we obviously all got drunk the night before the off day, then spent that day hung over. This will surprise no one in the film world…
Posted on November 11, 2011 by Lucas McNelly
A YEAR WITHOUT RENT: DAY SEVEN OF “THE STAGG DO”
There’s a lot of things you can do wrong as a film production, and if you’ve been paying attention to our coverage of THE STAGG DO, you’ll notice that they’ve pretty much ticked off all the boxes, save one: we’ve had good turnarounds…
Posted on November 10, 2011 by Lucas McNelly
