Archive for the 'Independent' Category
Here’s a good look at 13 movies that took a chance with a new direction and broke a few (unofficial) rules in the process. From GliPress.blogspot.com:
For all the creativity and innovation that goes into making (some) Hollywood films, there are also a lot of ideas that get recycled time and time again. I’m not referring […]
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Check out the upcoming film Dark Matter! Dark Matter is coming to New York theatres April 11th and then expanding.
Take a look at the official website: http://www.darkmatterthefilm.com/
The feature film debut of renowned opera and theater director Chen Shi-Zheng, Dark Matter delves into the world of Liu Xing (Chinese for “Shooting Star”), a Chinese science student […]
Paramount Pictures will become the first major studio to make thousands of movie clips available for use on the internet, launching its VooZoo application Monday on Facebook.
http://technology.sympatico.msn.cbc.ca
“The short clips for a movie that you’ve already seen before helps you relive the moment,” said Derek Broes, Paramount’s senior vice-president of entertainment.
Users of the popular social […]
Focus Features has released the official synopses for the following four films. Stay tuned to FlickMojo for more on these films as we receive it:
- Coraline
- Milk
- Burn After Reading
- Hamlet 2
CORALINE
Release Date: Dec. 2008 (limited), Feb. 6, 2009 (nationwide)
Synopsis: A high-definition stop-motion animated feature – the first to be originally filmed in 3-D – […]
Here’s a quick look at the award winners at this years Sundance Film Festival:
Alfred P Sloan Memorial Prize: Sleep Dealer
American Cinema:
Grand Jury Dramatic: Frozen River
Dramatic Audience Award: The Wackness
Dramatic Screenwriting Award: Sleep Dealer, Alex Rivera, David Riker
Dramatic Directing Award: Lance Hammer, Ballast
Dramatic Special Jury Prize for “the Spirit of Independent Cinema”: Chusy Haney-Jardine for Anywhere, […]
Best Picture
Atonement
Juno
Michael Clayton
No Country for Old Men
There Will Be Blood
Best Actor
George Clooney, Michael Clayton
Daniel Day-Lewis, There Will Be Blood
Johnny Depp, Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Tommy Lee Jones, In the Valley of Elah
Viggo Mortensen, Eastern Promises
Best Actress
Cate Blanchett, Elizabeth: The Golden Age
Julie Christie, Away from Her
Marion Cotillard, La Vie en Rose
Laura Linney, The […]
Prepare to be seduced…
A gothic thriller for the twenty-first century, Season of the Witch tells the tale of two beautiful witch sisters and the love triangle that consumes the man sent to investigate them.
Gabriel Blackstone is a hacker, information thief, and skilled “remote viewer” – he makes an excellent living stealing other people’s secrets. When […]
Nice to see indie production house Focus Features branching into the somewhat cliched Action/Comedy genre. This one looks pretty funny and hopefully it gets Farrell back into some good movies.
Synopsis: Academy Award-winning writer/director Martin McDonagh takes audiences on a killingly funny trip In Bruges, which is world-premiering as the opening-night film of the 2008 Sundance […]
James Tusty and Maureen Castle Tusty’s “The Singing Revolution” tells the moving story of how the Estonian people peacefully regained their freedom–and helped topple an empire along the way.
Synopsis:
“Patience is a weapon. Caution a virtue.”
It is said, in Estonia, heroes are those who wait, watch and act only when the time is
right.
In 1991, after nearly […]