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"Granito: How to Nail a Dictator": New Film Tracks Struggle for Justice After Guatemalan Genocide

Thu, 15 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Democracy Now - By Juan Gonzalez, Amy Goodman - Sep. 15 (Review) - A new documentary links Guatemala’s turbulent past with those who are active players in its present.

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Black leaders give 'The Help' a hand in marketing

Tue, 09 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Los Angeles Times - By Nicole Sperling - Aug. 09 (News Report) - The chairwoman of the NAACP is among those spreading the word about the DreamWorks film, which focuses on relationships between white Southern women and their maids during the civil rights era. When Roslyn Brock, chairwoman of the NAACP, first heard about "The Help," a new film based on a novel about the volatile relationships between Southern white women and their black maids at the dawn of the civil rights movement, she was skeptical.

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Marilyn Monroe's iconic dress sells for $5.6 million at auction

Sun, 19 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

CNN - By Alan Duke - Jun. 19 (News Report) - Marilyn Monroe's white "subway" dress sold for more than $5.6 million in a Beverly Hills, California auction Saturday night in which bidders paid another $2.7 million for three other Monroe movie outfits.

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Debbie Reynolds is parting with her movie treasures

Tue, 14 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Los Angeles Times - By Susan King - Jun. 14 (News Report) - The actress has amassed a collection of about 5,000 pieces of memorabilia. Finally admitting that her dream of a permanent museum won't be a reality, she is auctioning off the artifacts.

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Cannes kicks off with hommage to Bertolucci

Thu, 12 May 2011 11:48:00 -0700

Dawn - By Afp - May. 12 - Italian director Bernardo Bertolucci (L), is awarded with the Honorary Palme d'Or for his career from the president of the Cannes Film Festival Gilles Jacob (C) as President of the Jury Robert De Niro, Uma Thurman, Chadian director Mahamat-Saleh Haroun,

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Werner Herzog Enters 'The Cave Of Forgotten Dreams'

Mon, 25 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

NPR - By Terri Gross, Werner Herzog - Apr. 25 (Interview) - In 1994, three French cave explorers discovered hundreds of prehistoric paintings and engravings on the walls of the Chauvet Cave in southern France. Carbon dating has since shown that the depictions of rhinoceroses, lions, cave bears, horses, bison, mammoths and other animals are between 30,000 and 32,000 years old. That doesn't mean the ancient drawings are any less sophisticated than what artists create today, says filmmaker Werner Herzog. "Art ... as it bursts on the scene 32,000 years ago, is fully accomplished. It doesn't start with 'primitive scribblings' and first attempts like children would make drawings," Herzog says. "It's absolutely and fully accomplished." The acclaimed German director, who has produced, written and directed more than 40 films, gained exclusive access to the Chauvet caves. He tells their story and the story of the world's oldest cave paintings in The Cave of Forgotten Dreams, a 3-D documentary film. "Since early adolescence, I have been fascinated by cave paintings," Herzog tells Fresh Air's Terry Gross. "It actually was my personal intellectual awakening ... and shook me to the core — seeing an image of a horse [from the] prehistoric Stone Age. I couldn't believe it." Part of Herzog's interest in the paintings, he says, is the knowledge that tens of thousands of years ago, humans had the instinct to make art in order to represent the world around them.

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Prehistoric Cave With a Hornet on the Wall

Sun, 24 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Larry Rohter - Apr. 24 (News Report) - The director Werner Herzog remembers being about 12 years old when he saw, and was transfixed by, a picture of a horse on the cover of a book about Paleolithic art, displayed in the window of a bookstore in the isolated Bavarian village where he lived. Ever since, even as he was making films like “Aguirre, the Wrath of God” and “Nosferatu,” that image “has engaged me and haunted my mind,” he said. “It has never left me.” But it took more than 50 years after that first exposure to prehistoric cave art for Mr. Herzog to be able to act on his childhood fascination. In the spring of 2010 he was allowed to film in the Chauvet cave in southeastern France, where archaeologists have found exquisite wall paintings some 32,000 years old, the oldest ever discovered, and the result is an 90-minute documentary called “Cave of Forgotten Dreams.”

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Gwyneth Paltrow Is Right. We're All Jealous. (Of Her and George W. Bush.)

Tue, 19 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Keli Goff - Apr. 19 (Opinion) - Sometimes the truth hurts -- especially when it's an embarrassing truth and someone calls you out on it in public. Gwyneth Paltrow, whose image, particularly in cyberspace, has taken quite a drubbing in the last year or two, recently called out her critics (or anyone who doesn't appear to be her biggest fan) with her version of truth telling.

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The one and only Liz

Thu, 24 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Los Angeles Times - By Editorial Staff - Mar. 24 (Editorial) - There's no doubt that Elizabeth Taylor defined 'celebrity' for the modern age.

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'Becoming Chaz' tells the complicated, touching story of Chaz Bono's sex change

Mon, 24 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Los Angeles Times - By Steven Zeitchik - Jan. 24 (Review) - Chastity Bono says she always wanted to be male. 'Becoming Chaz,' which tells the story of her transition to male, screens at the Sundance Film Festival.

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More TV viewers may be cutting the cord this year

Tue, 04 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Associated Press - By Dawn C. Chmielewski, David Sarno - Jan. 04 (News) - New mobile devices and Internet-connected televisions that could let viewers cancel their pay-TV subscriptions are expected to be among the hottest items at the Consumer Electronics Show.

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Two films, two sex scenes, two different ratings

Sat, 04 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Los Angeles Times - By Steven Zeitchik - Dec. 04 (News Report) - 'Black Swan,' which shows a sex scene between two actresses, gets an R rating while 'Blue Valentine' shows a similar scene between a man and woman and gets the MPAA's dreaded NC-17. A film's label can make a big difference in box office receipts.

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To the MPAA ratings board, 'The King's Speech' is just as bad as 'Saw 3D'

Tue, 02 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Los Angeles Times - By Patrick Goldstein - Nov. 02 (Opinion) - “The King’s Speech,” a British film being touted as a leading contender for the best picture Oscar, is a delightful, heart-warming account of how a cheeky Australian speech therapist helped King George VI conquer a terrible stammer. “Saw 3D” is the seventh installment in the torture-porn horror film series, which as the Orlando Sentinel’s Roger Moore described it, has grown more and more gruesome, “with the filmmakers caught up in ‘What would it look like if somebody’s jaw was ripped out, or their skin was glued to a car seat?’”

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Irish man spots "time traveler" on a cell phone in a 1928 film

Wed, 27 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700

allvoices.com - Oct. 27 (Opinion) - After buying a DVD box-set of old Charlie Chaplin films, George Clark, a self-described film buff spotted something odd in one of the scenes. In the 1928 footage "The Circus,"

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James Cameron on 'Avatar,' 'Titanic,' and the Future of 3-D

Tue, 19 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Dave Itzkoff - Oct. 19 (Interview) - Mr. Cameron spoke recently to ArtsBeat about “Avatar”s past and present, as well as his future plans. These are excerpts from that conversation.

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With Film, Afghan-German Is a Foreigner at Home

Mon, 18 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Michael Slackman - Oct. 18 (News) - While Mr. Qurbani appreciates the reception that his film has gotten, its timing has cast him as a symbol of the fragile fault line currently challenging societal cohesion in Germany. “It is tragic what is happening here,” said Hatice Akyün, a writer and lifelong German resident of Turkish descent who, like Mr. Qurbani, must confront the frustrating daily exclamation from other Germans who never seem to tire of telling them, “You speak German so well.”

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Scoundrel Time

Thu, 10 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Weekly Standard - By John Podhoretz - Jun. 10 (Review) - Remember when wacky codgers in movies used to sit in rocking chairs on porches dispensing cranky wisdom? Or how, on television, Uncle Joe would be “a-movin’ kinda slow at the junction—Petticoat Junction”? Uncle Joe was played by an actor named Edgar Buchanan, and when the show debuted in 1963, Edgar Buchanan was all of 60 years old. Sixty happens to be the age of the character played by Michael Douglas in the compelling new movie Solitary Man.

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FCC hands Hollywood the keys to your PC, home theater and future

Sat, 08 May 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Boing Boing - By Cory Doctorow - May. 08 (Opinion) - The FCC has given Hollywood permission to activate the "Selective Output Control" technologies in your set-top box. These are hidden flags that allow the MPAA to deactivate parts of your home theater depending on what you're watching. And it sucks. As Dan Gillmor notes, "Fans of old TV science fiction will remember the Outer Limits. Given Hollywood's victory today at the FCC -- they'll be able to reach over the lines and disable functions on your TV -- the intro to the show takes on modern relevance."

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Michael Moore Says Judge’s Ruling Could Have ‘Chilling Effect’ on Documentaries

Fri, 07 May 2010 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Dave Itzkoff - May. 07 (News Report) - The director Michael Moore says that a federal judge’s ruling to allow Chevron to subpoena footage from the documentary “Crude” could have dire consequences on the documentary filmmaking process, and urged that film’s director to resist the subpoena if he can. On Thursday, Judge Lewis A. Kaplan of United States District Court in Manhattan said that Joe Berlinger, the director of “Crude,” would have to turn over more than 600 hours of footage from that documentary. The film chronicles the Ecuadorians who sued Texaco (now owned by Chevron) saying an oil field contaminated their water. Chevron said that Mr. Berlinger’s footage could be helpful as it seeks to have the litigation dismissed and pursues an international treaty arbitration related to the lawsuit.

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Pat Tillman film a haunting blindside

Sat, 24 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Los Angeles Times - By Bill Dwyre - Apr. 24 (News Analysis) - Journalists gave the story of soldier Pat Tillman’s death six years ago the hero’s treatment. What it deserved was real journalism. I have never quite gotten the Pat Tillman story out of my system. Only now am I understanding why.

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Film - The Runaways - The Girls Who Kicked In Rock's Door

Wed, 17 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - Mar. 17 (Other) - The most striking thing about “The Runaways,” a new film about the trailblazing bad-girl rock band from the 1970s, is how authentic it feels.

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Hollywood's Political Fictions - New York Times

Sun, 14 Mar 2010 22:11:48 -0700

New York Times - Mar. 14 (Opinion) - Hollywood's Political FictionsNew York TimesConsider “Green Zone,” the new Matt Damon thriller that doubles as a meditation on Why We Are in Iraq. The director is Paul Greengrass, ...and more??

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The Messiah Complex

Fri, 08 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By David Brooks - Jan. 08 (Opinion) - Every age produces its own sort of fables, and our age seems to have produced The White Messiah fable. ... Yet of all the directors who have used versions of the White Messiah formula over the years, no one has done so with as much exuberance as James Cameron in “Avatar.”

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Netflix Spilled Your Brokeback Mountain Secret, Lawsuit Claims

Fri, 18 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Wired - By Ryan Singel - Dec. 18 (News Report) - An in-the-closet lesbian mother is suing Netflix for privacy invasion, alleging the movie rental company made it possible for her to be outed when it disclosed insufficiently anonymous information about nearly half-a-million customers as part of its $1 million contest to improve its recommendation system. The suit known as Doe v. Netflix (.pdf) was filed in federal court in California on Thursday, alleging that Netflix violated fair-trade laws and a federal privacy law protecting video rental records, when it launched its popular contest in September 2006.

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The Poker House - One Week Limited Release in L.A. Ends 7/23

Sun, 19 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

current.com - By Jon Raymond - Jul. 19 (Breaking News) - The film distribution industry is so annal about edgy films like this. Hounddog had to be re-cut and toned down after the controversy generated over the adolescent girl's rape scene, played by Dakota Fanning. It then ended up with a limited release at Lamelle as well. I haven't seen it since then. It shows only than one limited release on IMDB. Will The Poker House have the same fate?

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