Rock Hudson. Gay actor Rock Hudson was not… It’s surprising that back in the mid-1980s some people were surprised to learn that Rock Hudson was gay, when the star of…
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Princess Diana, Dodi Fayed, Unlawful Killing. Screened at Cannes on Friday, Keith Allen’s documentary about the British royal family, Unlawful Killing, will likely fail to find the popular reception accorded…
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James D. Stern and Adam Del Deo’s Every Little Step Bill Guttentag and Dan Sturman’s Soundtrack for a Revolution, and James D. Stern and Adam Del Deo’s Every Little Step…
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Tim Hetherington Killed by mortar fire in Libya: Oscar-Nominated Restrepo Co-Director, Photojournalist was covering civil war.
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Justin Bieber: Never Say Never movie box office: On its debut weekend, Jon M. Chu’s concert documentary earned more than twice its production budget.
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The Thin Blue Line: Errol Morris’ landmark documentary. (See previous post: “Biggest Oscar Snubs: Non-Nominated Actors from Charles Farrell & Paul Newman to Tom Cruise & Leonardo DiCaprio.”) For better…
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Pat Tillman and Edward Cullen + other curious film awards season choices ranging from pre-med student Michelle Williams to stripper Halle Berry.
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Barbara Sukowa as Hildegard von Bingen in Vision Margerethe von Trotta-Barbara Sukowa ‘Vision’: Hildegard von Bingen in L.A. Margarethe von Trotta’s Vision, Official Selection at the Telluride and Toronto film…
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Directed, produced, and edited by Micki Dickoff and Tony Pagano, Neshoba: The Price of Freedom offers a unique peek into the mind of an unrepentant racist, Edgar Ray Killen. Killen,…
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Two Marilyn Monroe movies for the price of, well, two – which quite possibly means $50 by the time they come out. One, to be called Blonde, will star King…
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Tom Cruise and Reese Witherspoon movie in the works? Cruise is seen here with Cameron Diaz in Knight and Day. Tom Cruise and Reese Witherspoon may be paired up in…
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Following the success of Shah Rukh Khan’s My Name Is Khan, which has grossed $31.9 million worldwide (as per Box Office Mojo; not including India) and became the top Bollywood…
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Mel Gibson’s revenge thriller Edge of Darkness opened today, Jan. 29. Directed by Martin Campbell and written by Academy Award winner William Monahan and Martin Bovell, the film marks Gibson’s…
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Lord of the Rings prequel of sorts: Born of Hope. Beginning on Dec. 1, the Lord of the Rings prequel of sorts Born of Hope will make its exclusive debut…
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Roberta Grossman’s Blessed Is the Match: The Life and Death of Hannah Senesh and Gini Reticker’s Pray the Devil Back to Hell (above, lower photo) will be screened as part…
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Crips and Bloods: Made in America. In the 1980s and into the first half of the 1990s, gang violence in American urban centers grabbed nightly news headlines with a distant…
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Michael Moore shooting Bowling for Columbine. Michael Moore’s Bowling for Columbine, Kevin Macdonald’s One Day in September, and Errol Morris’ The Fog of War are among the 12 Oscar-winning short…
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Isaiah and Julia Zagar in Jeremiah Zagar’s In a Dream. James Marsh’s Man on Wire and Jeremiah Zagar’s In a Dream will launch the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and…
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Training Rules movie. Winner of the audience award for best documentary at the 2009 edition of San Francisco’s gay film festival, Frameline, Dee Mosbacher (right) and Fawn Yacker’s Training Rules…
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Wedding Peach. ANIME! High Art - Pop Culture “ANIME! High Art - Pop Culture,” a multimedia exhibition spotlighting the art of Japanese animation, will have its American premiere at the…
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Darfur Movie: The Devil Came on Horseback. Darfur Now and The Devil Came on Horseback, both focusing on the ongoing Darfur crisis, will screen as part of the Academy of…
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American Swing: Larry Levenson and Mary. By way of interviews, photos, and home movies, Mathew Kaufman and journalist Jon Hart’s American Swing humorously chronicles the rise and fall of all-American…
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Camorra movie Tops European Film Awards + Autism and Human Trafficking Dominate Australian Oscars + Golden Horse Award winners for Jet Li war film.
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American filmmaker Michealene Cristini Risley (right) met Zimbabwean social activist Betty Makoni at an International Development Exchange event in San Francisco. Risley was impressed with Makoni’s achievements as the founder…
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Aaron Aites and Audrey Ewell’s Until the Light Takes Us was one of the most unusual entries at the 2008 AFI FEST held in Los Angeles in early November. In…
Peter Mensah in Zack Snyder’s 300. Jack Fisk & Nathan Crowley Production Design Seminar The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ four-evening seminar series “Evolution or Revolution? Production Design…
Sauna movie Steam of Life featuring naked men exposing themselves emotionally to become first Best Foreign Language Film Oscar-nominated documentary?
Topol, 74, a Best Actor nominee for Norman Jewison’s 1971 blockbuster Fiddler on the Roof (above), is attached to star in a Yiddish-language version of The Golem, Screen Daily reports.…
Critics’ Favorite Films: Kathryn Bigelow + U.S.-Mexican Drama Ineligible for Oscars while previously ignored war movie now this awards season top choice.
Set in Los Angeles’ impoverished inner city areas, the documentaries The Garden (above, lower photo) and Crips and Bloods: Made in America will be screened as part of the Academy…
Michael Jackson Kids and Family plus Mansion Images and Los Angeles Staples Center This Is It movie concert rehearsal.
‘The Singing Revolution’: Filmmakers James Tusty & Maureen Castle Tusty discuss curious anti-Soviet Estonia street protests “Imagine the scene in Casablanca in which the French patrons sing ‘La Marseillaise’ in…