Salt Lake Tribune (Free subscription) | 11/11/2008
Cooler heads are making the case against the boycott of the Sundance Film Festival - a boycott proposed by gay-marriage activists who are mad at Utah because of the Mormon church's role in passing California's Prop. 8. IndieWire reports on a lively discussion thread on Facebook in which filmmaker Allison Anders (whose films "Gas Food Lodging," "Mi Vida Loca" and "Sugar Town" all played at
Filmmaker Magazine: Blog (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
Ted Hope alerted me to the very cool Trailers from Hell site, in which an amazing and erudite group of filmmakers -- John Landis, Howard Rodman, Allison Anders, Michael Lehmann, Larry Cohen, Joe Dante and others -- provide voiceover commentary to a series of trailers from great movies, most of which hail from B-movie or genre traditions. Personal favorites include Blast of Silence, It's a Mad,
Grandgood (Free subscription) | 07/30/2008
[ July 31, 2008; 7:00 pm; ] Thanks Marie. THIS IS THE LIFE Winner! Best Documentary Audience Award Pan-African Film Festival 2008 Winner! Audience Award, Documentary ReelWorld Film Festival 2008 Winner! Audience Award, First Place Langston Hughes African-American Film Festival 2008 This Thursday, July 31 @ 7PM Presented by Allison Anders & DON'T KNOCK THE ROCK Silent Movie Theater 611 N. Fairfax Avenue...
FilmStew.com (Free subscription) | 06/28/2008
A 20-year-old UC Santa Barbara film student is hoping to resurrect the memory of the first person to win the Academy Award for Best Director.
Vinyl Mine (Free subscription) | 05/29/2008
... would be a cross of the utter sexiness of Chloe Sevigny, the looks of Michelle Williams, the common sense appeal of Catherine Keener and the smarts of Allison Anders. While I'll probably never find her, at least we have Sonic Youth in common. Does this mean my ideal wingman wouldn't be a cross between Eddie Vedder, Mike Watt, Beck and Gus Van Sant?
Cinema Blend (Free subscription) | 05/28/2008
The majority of Sonic Youth fans find the unusual pairing a bit ironic, but mostly rather tragic. This, despite the fact that those who helped choose the songs are very much among the anti-corporation dogma, including Beck, Eddie Vedder and Radiohead. The same cannot be said for Portia di Rossi.
Glorious Noise (Free subscription) | 05/23/2008
Sonic Youth has a new limited-edition compilation coming out on June 10. It's called Hits Are for Squares and it will be sold exclusively at select big city Starbucks stores. The track list was selected by a bunch of famous...
The KEXP Blog (Free subscription) | 05/22/2008
Hits Are For Squares, the new Sonic Youth best-of compilation, will be out June 9th. You'll have to stop by Starbucks to get it though, because that's where the band is making it exclusively available. NME has the full tracklist, along with a list of who picked each song. Want to find out what Beck’s [...]
Billboard (Free subscription) | 05/21/2008
The album is due June 10 exclusively in Starbucks stores in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, San Francisco, Seattle, Boston, Philadelphia and Washington, D.C., as well as online.
Salt Lake Tribune (Free subscription) | 05/17/2008
At the 2001 Sundance Film Festival, when director Allison Anders met the press after the premiere of her drama "Things Behind the Sun," one reporter questioned Anders' choice to sell her movie to the Showtime cable channel rather than release it in theaters first.
Genealogy and How (Free subscription) | 05/07/2008
Daily summary of new genealogy queries posted on CousinConnect.com, for May 05, 2008: New Queries Posted: 110 Total Active Queries: 162023 Total Active Users: 165924 Yesterday's 110 new queries included the following surnames: A KODA , ADCOCK , ADOPTEE , ALLEN , ALLISON , ANDERS , ANDRADE , ANNIE SIMPSON , ATCHISON , ATKINSON , AYER , AYERS , BALDWIN , BEELER , BENJAMIN , BIRTHMOTHER* , BRADY , BROADNAX...
Last Blog On Earth (Free subscription) | 04/12/2008
Amid all the Marxist theory and analytical nonsense shoved down my throat during my college days as a UCSB film student, I enrolled in a film/music hybrid class taught by independent filmmaker Allison Anders. Little did I know that she would turn out to be the coolest person ever. Aside from teaching a course that included screenings and discussions of [...]
Zap2it.com - News (Free subscription) | 04/09/2008
'Pi,' 'Fountain' director develops series project Director Darren Aronofsky will bring his vision to bear on television, developing a project with AMC.
Pop Candy (Free subscription) | 10/31/2007
Here's an appropriate link for Halloween: Trailers from Hell is a fun site that posts classic horror-movie trailers with commentary from contemporary filmmakers. (Warning: You may want to put on headphones when you click the link.) The site just posted...
Blogcritics.org (Free subscription) | 05/03/2007
The best way to kill a technically well made film is through a bad screenplay. Exhibit 1A: filmmaker Allison Anders’ 2003 Showtime film Things Behind The Sun . Ostensibly based upon Anders’ real life ‘trauma’ of being raped as a child, the film wallows in every manner of cliché on the subject of victimhood imaginable. It also wastes some fine performances, save that of the ever PC and increasingly...
