Is Your Guess as Good as Ebert's?
Roger EbertCross-posted at RogerEbert.com... Like all film critics, I wait until the last possible moment to make my annual Academy Awards predictions. I ask around, I read, I ponder. I'll do that again this
January 2011
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Bernd Eichinger, 1949 - 2011
David HudsonBernd Eichinger, the German producer of Oscar-nominated films including Downfall and The Baader Meinhof Complex, died suddenly of a heart attack yesterday at his home in Los Angeles." Scott Roxborough
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Sundance 2011. Index
David HudsonThis year, we'll be taking our sweet time gathering coverage of the coverage of films screening at Sundance, but as the entries appear, they'll be indexed here. US DRAMATIC COMPETITION
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Sundance 2011. Evan Glodell's "Bellflower"
David HudsonNoel Murray at the AV Club: "The two leads of the very strange indie romance Bellflower are amateur inventors, who've tricked out their car with a whiskey dispenser and who spend their copious spare
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Hors Pistes 2011
MUBI is teaming up with the Centre Pompidou to show a selection of shorts from Hors Pistes, a vital cultural event created in 2006 focusing on the new ways of using contemporary images and showing the
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Sundance 2011. Ali Samadi Ahadi's "The Green Wave"
David Hudson"How do you show what it was like for the Iranian protesters arrested during the green revolution of 2009?" asks Geoffrey Macnab in the Guardian. "That was the challenge facing Ali Samadi Ahadi when
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"Barbara Hammer: Experimenting in Life and Art"
David HudsonVictoria Ellison in the LA Weekly on this evening's event: "At 71, four years after a bout with cancer, the avant-garde Queer Cinema pioneer has never been more alive, with a retrospective at New York
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Sundance 2011. Sean Durkin's "Martha Marcy May Marlene"
David Hudson"The Borderline Films boys, who along with their mid-aughts NYU grad cohorts have been responsible for the gorgeous and startlingly cold festival hits Afterschool (Antonio Campos) and Two Gates of
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Sundance + Berlinale 2011. Miranda July's "The Future"
David Hudson"Miranda July's new feature The Future revolves around a talking cat, a precocious little girl, a single father, a wise old man, and a hipster couple in Los Angeles who, faced with the prospect of
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Sundance 2011. Dee Rees's "Pariah"
David Hudson"In 2008, Dee Rees screened her short film Pariah at Sundance," blogs Mark Elijah Rosenberg for Rooftop Films. "Brimming with tension and pathos, the short built to a violent climax that was blunt
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"Neds," "Applause," "Mamma Roma," More
David Hudson"Just when you thought British cinema was in danger of stalling in its default mode — classy crowd-pleasing, with award-worthy millinery — along comes Neds to give it a rude and vital kick
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Sundance 2011. Joe Swanberg's "Uncle Kent"
David Hudson"I watched Uncle Kent for the second time the other night," writes Craig Keller in an open letter to Joe Swanberg. "Really impressed by it, once again, — like all good movies, it's better still the