Movie City Indie

Bruno's scissored La Toya Jackson scene

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:42:49 -0800

Posted as a promo for the upcoming homevideo release.

Jason Reitman

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 20:19:49 -0800

Jason Reitman, Peninsula Hotel, Chicago, 3 November 2009.

#unseenprequels: another Twitter meme

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 09:42:42 -0800

I'm amazed when Twitter memes break out overnight and it's late late late on some coast and a flurry of a dozen or more rush from the fingertips of a single writer. Although I was tempted by #unseenprequels to suggest "Jason Reitman's Stalled On The Tarmac," "The Blastocysts Karamazov" and "When Harry Stared At Sally's Neck."

Yes... feeding squirrel-like kitten with chopsticks

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 14:49:31 -0800

Good days? Bad days? Good days.

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 12:32:59 -0800

Week later, two million views, still a classic.

Charles and Ray Eames' Polaroid SX-70 promo film

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 11:30:05 -0800

Technology arrives...

Out of the box: Richard Kelly's 1996 The Goodbye Place

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 11:20:01 -0800

VIFF 2009 trailers: Sexuality and Subtitles

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 10:02:12 -0800

Vancouver's fest trailers are always pretty swell.

42Below Vodka's 42-filmmaker 42-second film project: Flora Sigismondi, Kenneth Anger

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 15:41:28 -0800

42Below Vodka's 42-filmmaker 42-second film project: David Lynch, Asia Argento

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 11:37:55 -0800

42Below Vodka's 42-filmmaker 42-second film project: Abel Ferrara, Harmony Korine

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 05:34:11 -0800

Picturing Chicago International Film Festival 45 award ceremonies

Sun, 18 Oct 2009 15:24:24 -0800

The Chicago International Film Festival's 45th edition runs through Thursday, but juried awards were handed out Saturday night at the Pump Room of the Ambassador East Hotel. In the International Feature Film Competition, three prizes went to Tina Mabry's Mississippi Damned, a Gold Hugo for Best Film, a Gold Plaque for Best Supporting Acress to Jossie Harris Thacker and another GP for Mabry's screenplay. Andrea Arnold's Fish Tank took a Silver Hugo Special Jury Award for "esthetic boldness" along with a GP for Michael Fassbender for Best Supporting Actor. Vincere took Silver Hugos for Marco Bellocchio as Best Director, Giovanna Mezzogiorno as Best Actress and Filippo Timi for Best Actor, along with a Gold Plaque for Best Cinematography, Daniele Cipri. Hipsters took a Gold Plaque for Best Art Direction. Only a handful of winners were present: the Mississippi Damned crew was happy to be there. New Directors and Short Film nods listed in the festival press release after the jump, along with video (below) of Martin Landau accepting an Achievement Award in the Chicago hotel where North by Northwest was shot. [Ray Pride.]

This is critic John Russell Taylor's 39th consecutive CIFF, he says.

David Robinson served on the documentary jury.

Bruce Webb directed competition entry The Be All And End All.

Martin Landau says the film industry has changed in 50 years.

A scrum of autograph hunters outside the hotel sought a signature from jury president Jacqueline Bissett.

An hour of Hitchcock on the "Tomorrow" show

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 12:51:47 -0800

The wavy rainbows when the VHS recorder was restarted after commercial are a nice throwback as well. The other embeds are below on a single page. Via @Ebertchicago. And here's sixteen or so hours for your iPod: the complete recordings of the Hitchcock-Truffaut interviews.

Für Falcon: A fictional, non-hoax balloon ride gone wrong

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 05:27:41 -0800

Roger Michel's beautifully edited opening scene of Enduring Love, dubbed in German, but it still looks swell.

Trailering Edge of Darkness

Thu, 15 Oct 2009 10:39:10 -0800