The Movie "Precious" Tells Two Stories at Once
Warning: Major spoilers ahead I loved the movie Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire because it told me two moving stories at once. The ...
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Women-Made Films Mostly Ignored by the National Film Registry. Why?
The situation for women who want to make movies is grim. Despite the fact that film schools graduate as many women as men, just 4% of Hollywood directors are women.
Maine Bans Same-Sex Oscar Hosts
Voters in Maine turned out in record numbers yesterday to repeal a law legalizing same-sex Oscar hosts, throwing the plans for this year's Academy Awards into turmoil.
Movie review: That Evening Sun - An indy gem
That Evening Sun starts out as if it had been plucked from a Sundance time capsule circa the early 1990s: an elderly person raging against the indigni...
The Alarming Decline Of Expressive Language, In Life and On Film
Even as today's high school and college students are pushed harder in school, they cannot write an essay or use descriptive language nearly as fluently as their parents and grandparents could.
And the Oscar Goes To....
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to win an Oscar? Or just to own one and place it on the mantle for all the world to see. The Academy ...
American Casino: Betting Against the House
The documentary American Casino, made by Leslie and Andrew Cockburn, follows plain folk with subprime-mortgaged homes as their properties become bundl...
Scott Hicks on Manhood
After a Boston premiere of the film The Boys Are Back, I caught up with director Scott Hicks by phone to compare notes on manhood.
British prime minister pledges national referendum on instant runoff voting - Poll shows support
Instant runoff voting (IRV) is gaining support in the United States, particularly as a means to replace runoff elections that double the costs of admi...
Why Do We Want to Be Famous?
When strangers ply us with questions like "And you are?", "Who are you with?", or "Where did you go to school?" they are likely sizing up our power as belied by our affiliations.
Leniency for Polanski
The news of director Roman Polanski's arrest stirred me more than I might have expected since I'd just screened a revealing documentary about this man's tortured life, Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired.
Best & Brightest: The eSarc 50
A total of seven companies showed up; two of them were actually looking for a Dustbuster convention but were at the wrong hotel. (We forced them to get on stage and do a demo anyway. They were totally awesome.)
Women in Hip-Hop: The B-girl Be Festival
When it comes to women in hip-hop, don't call it a comeback. Women have been here for years.
Smile Pinki and the Great Movie Giveaways
If someone makes a brilliant Oscar-winning short and no one watches it -- does it have any impact? When the movie has potential for changing the lives of children around the globe, that's just not good enough.
Live from the Toronto Film Festival: Day 1
The Toronto International Film Festival suffers from its own success. There are too many damned commercials before the start of each film.
Some Death Panels Do Exist
If one insists on finding Death Panels, they're not hard to find: The Motion Picture and Television Fund has announced it's closing health care for the renowned Motion Picture Home.
Clooney's "Up in the Air" Premieres at Telluride
One of this year's most anticipated movies had its world premiere this weekend 9,545 feet above sea level, in a screening room at the Telluride Film Festival.
And the Oscar for Best Voting System Goes to ... Instant Runoff Voting
Before 1945, the Academy picked classics like Casablanca and Gone with the Wind. But it switched to plurality voting because it can encourage Oscar upsets.
Oscar-nominated Actor Paul Giamatti and Director Sophie Barthes Try Saving Our Cold Souls
Given its wonderfully wacked-out premise, Cold Souls is a film that does not deserve to be lost in the summer shuffle.
It Might Get Loud with Davis Guggeinheim
"Most documentaries about music are about dumb things like car wrecks and drug overdoses," said Guggenheim, "and I wanted to make a movie about [...] how they became great musicians."
Running Naked Through Town Hall
We all agree the health of our citizens is of paramount importance. We need informed debate. But the real issues that concern us all, right and left, Democrat and Republican, are lost in the noise of an angry mob.
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