Rotten Tomatoes (Free subscription) | 10/09/2008
According to Roger Friedman, Rose McGowan is set to replace Anna Faris in Matthew Wilder's Linda Lovelace biopic, "Inferno" -- and Bill Pullman and Josh Lucas have already joined the cast.
Fox News (Free subscription) | 10/07/2008
The talented, beautiful star of "Planet Terror" from the Robert Rodriguez part of "Grindhouse" and TV's "Charmed" is considering joining the cast of Inferno, producer Brian Grazer's film about legendary "Deep Throat" star Linda Lovelace.
NewYorkology: A New York Travel Gui (Free subscription) | 10/06/2008
It’s Monday, October 6 and here’s today’s NYC agenda: Madonna at Madison Square Garden Bryant Park lawn opens at 4 p.m. for free 5:30 p.m. concert by New York City Opera for New York Now New York Premiere: The Return...
View From The Bridge (Free subscription) | 10/06/2008
I keep the radio beside my bed permanently tuned to the BBC’s Radio Five Live. Last night as I slid beneath the duvet it was reporting that the US presidential election was now getting nasty. Perhaps getting desperate, and wishing to shift the agenda away from the economy, the Republicans had decided to get personal [...]
Scotsman.com Living - Books (Free subscription) | 10/04/2008
HERE'S a slightly unnerving story of one man's overwork, a murder of, er, murderous crows and a computer which I wouldn't touch with a bargepole, all donein stop-motion animation.BOB-A-JOB WEAK?www.youtube.com/watch?v>Htt9rKEek0g&feature> PlayList&p>92063E715E0D94C3& index>0&playnext>1 LONG-TIME Dylan fans will be well aware of his infamous 1966 tour documentary Eat The Document. Filmed by DA Pennebaker,...
Britannica Blog (Free subscription) | 09/29/2008
For their third feature film, the Beatles decided to sit back and let others do all the work. Thus, the band “starred” in an animated fantasy-comedy that revolutionised the concept of cartoon features. Inspired by the Beatles’ hit song and designed in a psychedelic, pop-art style a la Peter Max . . . (Click below for the post and a larger video screen.)
Cinebeats (Free subscription) | 09/27/2008
The following four videos make up a fascinating 40 min. film by D.A. Pennebaker called Two American Audiences: La Chinoise - A Film in the Making. It chronicles a discussion that takes place in 1968 between director Jean-Luc Godard and NYU film students who discuss Godard’s film La Chinoise, filmmaking and politics. La Chinoise was [...]
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 09/24/2008
Legendary filmmakers D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus were at Flashpoint Academy this week for a screening of a new film they're making about the coveted "Meilleurs Ouvriers de France."
Goldenfiddle (Free subscription) | 08/04/2008
Crotchety old heavy weights of cinematography and documentary filmmaking Haskell Wexler ( One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest ), DA Pennebaker ( Don’t Look Back ), Joan Churchill ( Kurt & Courtney ), Chris Hegedus ( The War Room ) and Nick Doob ( Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars ) talk reality, stealing souls, cheating for the film, and Metamucil. No, we kid. They’re old! Get it? (via walkerlamond...
Idle Musings (Free subscription) | 08/03/2008
The International Documentary Association has complied a list of the 25 best documentaries of all time. More than a few of these I haven’t seen (those in italics I have). Guess I need to change my Netflix queue. 1. Hoop Dreams (1994), Steve James 2. The Thin Blue Line (1988), Errol Morris 3. Bowling for Columbine (2002), Michael [...]
DVD Times (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
DVD Video Review: "There's something happening here, but you don't know what it is - do you, Mr Jones?"
GreenCine Daily (Free subscription) | 06/02/2008
Leo Goldsmith introduces a special feature at Not Coming to a Theater Near You that'll be updated daily throughout June: "For over 40 years, with a career comprising more than 35 films, Frederick Wiseman has been insinuating his camera...
Hindu (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
An attempt to decipher Bob Dylan, post Pulitzer
The Washington Times (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
As technology has broken down barriers of entry to the media, so has it invited new means of deception.
Draven99's Musings (Free subscription) | 05/06/2008
Bob Dylan. The man, the myth, the legend. The enigmatic character who became the poet of an entire generation. A shape-shifting chameleon who will leave anyone who attempts to unravel his life's story as confused, if not more so at the end than when they began. He also is the subject of I'm Not There , Todd Haynes experimental biography that seeks to disentangle the various personae of the artist....
