Now Playing at Cinematical Indie: 'Your Mommy Kills Animals,' 'No End in Sight,' and Spike Lee Scores Emmy Noms
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Have you been reading Cinematical Indie lately? If not, here's what you've been missing ...COLUMNS, REVIEWS, and INTERVIEWS
- Matt Bradshaw reviews Hollywood After Dark -- with the guys from MST3K!!! -- for Killer Bs on DVD.
- Nick Schager reviews Your Mommy Kills Animals
- Podcast: On The Rocchi Review, James Rocchi chats it up with Andrew Grant, the voice behind one of my fave film blogs, Like Anna Karina's Sweater, and Aaron Hillis, who reviews film for the likes of
VarietyThe Village Voice and Premiere. Both guys are also the brains behind Benten Films, which will release Joe Swanberg's LOL on DVD August2728. - Erik Davis interviews Four Eyed Monsters Co-Director Arin Crumley. The guys talked so much we had to break it into two parts, so be sure to check out both Part One and Part Two.
- Jeffrey M. Andersons 400 Screens, 400 Blows: Coming to America
- Cinematical Indie Chat: Deliver Us from Evil director Amy Berg.
- RvB's' After Images: Zouk's Lair in Mr. Arkadin.
- Review: alleyball
- James Rocchi interviews No End In Sight director Charles Ferguson.
**Thanks, Aaron, for the corrections ...
INDIE FILM GRAB BAG
- Spike Lee's When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts, a four-hour doc about Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath, played the fest circuit last year before getting distrib on HBO. I thought this was a smart move when I heard the film was going to HBO; much as I was interested in seeing the film, the prospect of sitting through four butt-numbing hours in a movie theater to watch it was a little daunting. Put in on HBO, though, and I can record it to DVR and break down my viewing into more watchable chunks. Now Lee has another reason to be glad about the decision to show the film on HBO -- six Emmy noms in the non-fiction category.
- Cinematical Indie ponders the question: How much should a film critic spoil a movie when reviewing it?
- The Lone Star state passes a film incentive bill -- but will there be censorship?
- Also ... Charlie Bartlett gets pulled, 3:10 to Yuma gets a badass poster, Julia Stiles tackles Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar, Michael Moore wants to do some right-wing laundry,
- Famed Hungarian cinematographer Laslzo Kovacs, who worked on films from Easy Rider to Paper Moon, passed away at the age of 73.
- Ulrich Mühe, who starred in last year's Oscar-winning foreign film The Lives of Others (easily one of my top five fave films for the year -- it only missed being included on my list because I hadn't caught it before I wrote the list), sadly passed away from stomach cancer last week at the age of 54.
FEST NEWS
- The Venice International Film Festival announced the titles for its International Critics' Week Program, to be held during the fest. Titles include The Nines, A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints, and the first film by Jónas Cuarón (aka son of Alfonso Cuarón), Year of the Nail. Later in the week, we got the rundown on the full schedule -- and it's looking pretty good.
- The Bangkok Film Fest screens and deals amidst considerable controversy.
- The Toronto International Film Fest announces some Midnight Madness fun, including George Romero's Diary of the Dead, Stuart Gordon's Stuck, and much more blood and gore. There's nothing like a little horror to lighten up a film fest that's sure to be heavy on war, politics, and other such seriousness.
- NYC Scanners Film Fest changes format.
DVDs, DEALS and DISTRIBUTION
- Kurt Cobain About a Son, A.J. Schnack's doc about the deceased rocker, which was gleaned from hours of interview tapes with Cobain recorded a year or so before his untimely suicide, has been picked up by Balcony Releasing for theatrical and DVD release.
- Director Derek Yee and Jackie Chan are reportedly set to work together on a film called The Shinjuku Incident. Yee will direct, while Chan will star and also produce.
- The Host, Perfume and Cashback get DVD releases.
- Also ... Richard Kelly's Southland Tales finally gets a fall release date, Fortissimo picks up Help Me Eros, and Chinatown gets a spandy-new DVD release.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
7-29-2007 @ 7:30PM
Aaron Hillis said...
Thanks for the Benten linkage, Kim. A couple quick corrections: I actually write for The Village Voice (not Variety), and we're releasing LOL on DVD August 28th (not the 27th). I would've just emailed you, but I couldn't find your addy! Cheers...
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