Cinema

Google vs. Hollywood: The Worst of Enemies, The Best of Friends (Potentially)

Robert Simpson | Posted 05.22.2012

Read More: Richard O'Dwyer, Google, Congress, TV Shack, Film Industry, Megaupload, Spotify, Cinema, Stop Online Piracy Act, Protect Ip Act, Itunes, Lovefilm, Dvd, Illegal Downloading, Netflix, Silicon Valley, Hollywood, Media News

The battle raging between the big Hollywood film studios and the giant of Silicon Valley is probably the most pointless and futile conflict being rage...

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Please Don't Miss Pina

Misha Lyuve | Posted 04.30.2012

Read More: Pina, Art, German Dance Company, Win Wenders, Modern Dance, Pina Bausch, Cinema, Wim Wenders 3d, Pina Movie, Wim Wenders Pina, Video, Culture News

Pina a visually stunning and thought-provoking documentary by Win Wenders, shows the medium of dance as language. Not just in a perfection of movements, coordination and balance -- but the language that comes out of the deep humanness, alive as a conversation.

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The Lives of Tiny House People: Direct Cinema Documentary (VIDEO)

Kirsten Dirksen | Posted 04.27.2012

This week I released via YouTube -- in an attempt to make it some type of "of the people, for the people" -- my documentary We the Tiny House People: Small Homes, Tiny Flats & Wee Shelters in the New and Old World.

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Bad News For 'The Hobbit'

The Huffington Post | Mark Hanrahan | Posted 04.26.2012

Read More: The Hobbit Film, Lord of the Rings, Martin Freeman, Peter Jackson the Hobbit, Slideexpand, Movies, Cinema, Video, James Cameron, Film Technology, Hobbit 48 Frames Per Second, Hobbit Movie, Hollywood Buzz, Peter Jackson, Entertainment News

All is not well in Middle Earth. Director Peter Jackson debuted ten minutes of footage from his upcoming "Lord Of The Rings" prequel, "The Hobbit A...

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Blanche Neige et la Cougar

Eliette Abécassis | Posted 04.15.2012

Read More: Blanche Neige, Cinéma, Film, Tarsem Singh, Divertissement, Culture, Julia Roberts, Home News

L'image de la femme véhiculée par ce film pose question. Passé 18 ans, la femme est pathétique. Elle devrait juste mourir. Comment ose-t-elle encore se montrer en public? Comment peut-elle même prétendre séduire?

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See Tomorrow's Big Filmmakers Today

Posted 03.21.2012

Read More: Wim Wenders, New Films/New Directors, Video, Filmmaking, Steven Spielberg, Lincoln Center, Film Society of Lincoln Center, Spike Lee, Film, Moma, Filmmaker, Cinema, Arts News

"New Directors/New Films" has sparked the careers of some of today's biggest filmmakers: Steven Spielberg, Wim Wenders and Spike Lee, for instance, al...

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Just in Case It Matters: Biographer Jeffrey Spivak on the Magic of Busby Berkeley

Dan Lybarger | Posted 05.13.2012

Read More: Dancing, They Made Me a Criminal, 42nd Street, Jeffrey Spivak, Books, The Gold Diggers of 1933, The Gangs's All Here, Musicals, Busby Berkeley, Film, Buzz: The Life and Art of Busby Berkeley, Movies, Biography, Cinema, Books News

In the 1930s and '40s, Busby Berkeley (1895-1976) staged a series of movie dance numbers that could rival the paintings of Salvador Dali in their outlandishness. His movies were loaded with jaw-dropping optical illusions and wound up influencing everyone from the Coen Brothers to Mel Brooks.

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[SXSW Film Preview] Don't Judge a Fest by Its Centerpieces

Turnstyle | Posted 05.09.2012

Read More: South by Southwest, Festivals, Film, Jonathan Poritsky, Movies, Cinema, Entertainment News

By Jonathan Poritsky It's March again. While sports nuts flood your social feeds with college basketball madness, the film nerd in your life is proba...

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Elizabeth Olsen, Star of 'Silent House', is an Actor's Actor

Turnstyle | Posted 05.08.2012

Read More: Horror Films, Cinema, Film, Elizabeth Olsen, Silent House, Movies, Entertainment News

By Noah Nelson Elizabeth Olsen, younger sister of the famed "Olsen Twins" Mary Kate and Ashley, is quickly emerging as not just a rising star, but an...

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A Clarion Call to Non-Disabled Actors to Refuse to Play Disabled Characters

Lennard Davis | Posted 05.08.2012

Read More: Television, Disability, Acting, Films, Cinema, Actors, Disabled Actors, Disabled Entertainers, Entertainment News

It is time for actors to take an active role in one of the most reprehensible forms of prejudice in our time -- the discrimination against disabled pe...

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Cindy Sherman as Orson Welles... as John Ford... as Vittorio De Sica... as Alfred Hitchcock... as...

G. Roger Denson | Posted 05.05.2012

Read More: Photography, Cinema, Cindy Sherman, Museum of Modern Art, Cindy Sherman's Untitled Film Stills, Arts News

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PHOTOS: Hollywood Briefly Comes To The Factory Valleys

Randy Fox | Posted 05.05.2012

Today, Hollywood is alive again in the cities and valleys of Western PA and its surrounding areas.

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2012 Rendez-Vous With French Cinema: A Preview

Farihah Zaman | Posted 05.02.2012

Read More: Kitty Genovese, Mathieu Amalric, Lucas Belvaux, French Film, 38 Witnesses, Lincoln Center, Film Society of Lincoln Center, French, Nyc Culture, Delicacy, Farewell My Queen, Film, The Film Society of Lincoln Center, Rendez-Vous With French Cinema, Movies, Cinema, Daniel Auteuil, Nyc, Benoit Jacquot, Americano, The Well Diggers Daughter, The Screen Illusion, Andre Techine, Unforgivable, Slidepollajax, Mathieu Demy, Zarafa, French Films, French Movies, Entertainment News

If you can't take advantage of the festival's NYC-based screenings, many of these films have a good shot at being picked up for U.S. theatrical and online distribution.

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Classic Hollywood Stars And Starlets In A Whole New Light

Posted 03.02.2012

Read More: Old Hollywood, Elizabeth Taylor, Liz Taylor, Fellini, Movies, Audrey Hepburn, Cinema, Marilyn Monroe, Francis Ford Coppola, Holly Golightley Breakfast at Tiffany's, The Godfather, Charlie Chaplin, Greta Garbo, Lumas, Classic Movies, Slidepollajax, Arts News

The smoldering gaze, the flirtatious smirk, the incredible jewelry collection... who knows what gives a Hollywood starlet that magical razzle-dazzle. ...

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Oscars 2012 Stage Brings Back Old Hollywood Glamour (VIDEO)

Constantin Bjerke | Posted 04.28.2012

Read More: Memoirs of a Geisha, Stage, Video, Swarovski-Crystals, Academy Awards, La, Producer, Film, Los Angeles, Brian Grazer, Cinema, Kodak Theatre, Production Designer, Glamour, John Mhyre, Dreamgirls, Elizabeth, Oscars, crane.tv, Screen, Hollywood, Arts News

Last night The 84th Academy Awards once again brought sparkle to Los Angeles as the 2012 Oscars celebrated talent across the film industry. The Koda...

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Bindlestiffs: A Raunchy Teen Comedy Made By Teens

Turnstyle | Posted 04.16.2012

Read More: Bindlestiffs, Andrew Edison, Slamdance, Sundance, Luke Loftin, Movies, Comedy, Cinema, Entertainment News

By Noah Nelson Bindlestiffs has the distinction of being one of the most oversexed, twisted, and just plain messed up comedies in ages, and when you ...

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Adam Deacon: Britain's Latest Leading Man (VIDEO)

Crane.tv | Posted 04.14.2012

Read More: Chris Hemsworth, Adam Deacon, Director, Grammys, Movie, Awards, Orange Rising Star, Film, Tv, Eddie Redmayne, British, Cinema, Hackney, Tom Hiddleston, Adele, crane.tv, Chris O'Dowd, Baftas, Stephen Fry, Hollywood, Video, Arts News

It was all go in the entertainment industry last night as the BAFTAs took over our TV screens here and the Grammys had the viewing public fixated on t...

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WATCH: Glamorous Opening Of Berlin International Film Festival

Arne Schmidt and Claudia Hirschberger | Posted 04.14.2012

Read More: Berlin International Film Festival, Berlinale, Movies, Berlin, Cinema, Travel News

The Berlin International Film Festival opened on Thursday night, and international film stars like Christopher Lee, Diane Kruger and Jake Gyllenhaal graced the red carpet.

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An Impossible Mission, Accomplished: The Filmmakers Behind 'Getting Up'

Turnstyle | Posted 04.03.2012

Read More: Getting Up, Film, Tempt 1, Tempt One, Graffiti, Cinema, Als, Movies, Entertainment News

By Noah Nelson In our review of the Slamdance audience award-winning documentary Getting Up: The Tempt One Story we summarized the film thusly: Tony ...

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From Glasgow to Glory: Director Lynne Ramsay on We Need to Talk About Kevin

Dan Lybarger | Posted 03.28.2012

Read More: Morvern Callar, Online Film Critics Society, Glasgow, Lionel Shriver, Rory Stewart Kinnear, Lynne Ramsay, Arts, Motion Pictures, Tilda Swinton, Ratcatcher, Film, Movies, Cinema, Dan Lybarger, Bafta, Entertainment, We Need to Talk About Kevin, Ofcs, Entertainment News

The film hasn't received any Oscar nominations, but Ramsay demonstrates that her uniquely Scottish sensibility translates remarkably well stateside.

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The Road to Sundance and Beyond- Indie Game: The Movie

Turnstyle | Posted 03.26.2012

Read More: US Films, Kickstarter, Film Industry, Sundance, Indie Game: The Movie, Movies, Indie Film, Cinema, Entertainment News

By Noah Nelson In the years to come, the road from Kickstarter to Sundance will likely be as well traveled as the 101 in Los Angeles. During this yea...

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Smaller Is Better: New Models for the Indie Film Market

Turnstyle | Posted 03.20.2012

Read More: Arts, Sundance Film Festival, Film, Indie Film, Movies, Cinema, Arts News

By: Noah Nelson All eyes are on Park City this week as the 2012 Sundance Film Festival gets underway. In the midst of the snow and stars scores of fi...

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Why Did Movie Ticket Sales Slump?

HuffingtonPost.com | Ron Dicker | Posted 01.09.2012

Read More: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2, Entertainment, Avatar, Box Office, Business News, Movie Tickets, Entertainment News, Harry Potter, Ticket Sales, Film, Cineplex, Movies, Cinema, Business News

During a nationwide 16-year low at the box office, Alamo Drafthouse theaters increased their sales by 2.6 percent. Tim League, CEO and founder of the ...

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APAP 2012: 10 Things the Dance Field Should Be Talking About

Marc Kirschner | Posted 03.10.2012

Read More: Wim Wenders, Pina Bausch, Pina, Ballet, Dance, Nea, American Ballet Theatre, National Endowment for the Arts, Cinema, New York City Ballet, The Bolshoi Ballet, Slidepollajax, Arts Presenters, Arts News

By the end of this year, globalization in dance won't be an emerging trend... it will be a permanent state of existence, and every company should be aware of their global positioning, even if they've never toured outside of their home city.

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The 11 Best Films You May Have Missed In 2011

Leonard Maltin | Posted 02.25.2012

Read More: The Guard, The Woman on the 6th Floor, Incendies, Leonard Maltin, Submarine, Of Gods and Men, Indie Movies, Higher Ground, Movies, Cinema, Tucker and Dale vs. Evil, Wwii, Indie Cinema, Sarah's Key, City of Life and Death, Higher Ground Movie, Win Win, Terri, Arts News

If you're a discerning moviegoer who lives in a community with a specialty theater (or art house, as we used to call them), you may have seen some of the titles on my list. But there are some smaller, more offbeat pictures, that fly under the radar of even avid film buffs.

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