Pop Candy (Free subscription) | 08/06/2008
Good morning! I wish I had a captivating story to share here, but instead of attending last night's Tropic Thunder screening, I ended up falling asleep on the couch. I woke up to a Tori Spelling reality show and then...
Slog (Free subscription) | 07/29/2008
Just a reminder--Hal Ashby's Shampoo is at Northwest Film Forum tonight and tomorrow. (Sean Nelson wrote a great piece for us about Hal Ashby's oeuvre a few weeks back.) But check out the competition! I still want to see Water Lilies at the Varsity, The Last Mistress at the Metro, The Omega Man at Grand Illusion, and Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired at SIFF Cinemaall of which end this Thursday....
Pop Candy (Free subscription) | 07/29/2008
I didn't catch too many movies events at Comic-Con -- my colleague Scott Bowles did a lot of that -- though my ears were quite damaged by all the screaming at the Twilight panel. However, here are a few highlights...
Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch (Free subscription) | 07/26/2008
It was the ultimate geek panel and it took place Friday evening at Comic-Con. The subjects? Kevin Smith (pictured), Judd Apatow, Zack Snyder, and Frank Miller. While Snyder appeased fans by revealing his love of Star Wars, Miller crumudgeonly answered...
Metroblogging Seattle (Free subscription) | 07/25/2008
Northwest Film Forum gets you revved up with their 1960s Nikkatsu Action Cinema series this weekend featuring The Warped Ones, Glass Johnny Velvet Hustler, and A Colt Is My Passport, all action packed thrillers from 1960s Japan. Also at NWFF: Operation Filmmaker, Nina Davenport’s documentary about Muthana Mohmed, an aspriring young filmmaker from [...]
Funky Brown Chick (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
“Harold is 20, very rich and very suicidal. Maude is 79¾, very poor and so full of a sympathetic life-force that she grieves for a small tree, suffocating in the city’s pollution,” reads the original 1971 New York Times review of Hal Ashby’s cult classic Harold and Maude. Great flick. Rent it if you haven’t [...]
gtmcknight.com (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
Coconut Records - West Coast This is Jason Schwartzman ’s band. In last month’s GOOD Magazine they had a piece on Hal Ashby and his cult films of the 70’s. Jason was raving about seeing Harold and Maude for the first time and it making him fall in love with the magic of cinema and wanting to act. As a pretty big JS fan I checked it out and was disappointed. The film was a bit slow and besides the...
No Good for Me (Free subscription) | 07/08/2008
New Yorkers, if you hurry, you can catch the tail end of the film part of the Afro Punk Festival, taking place mostly at BAM Rose Cinemas. Afro Punk is a multi-day cultural event celebrating black rebellion through art, music...
Variety.com (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
Film News: BAMcinematek kicks off fourth annual event -- BAMcinematek’s fourth annual “Afro-Punk Festival” runs through July 13 at BAM Rose Cinemas.
GreenCine Daily (Free subscription) | 07/03/2008
For the Voice, Aaron Hillis previews the Afro-Punk Festival, running at BAM from tomorrow through Wednesday: "Among the screening highlights are self-explanatory doc portraits (A Panther in Africa, Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple), auteur rarities (Larry...
Variety.com (Free subscription) | 07/03/2008
Film News: Lloyd, Mikhalkov to attend event -- The 43rd Karlovy Vary Film Festival opens in the Czech Republic Friday with a batch of last-minute star guests added to a list that already includes Robert De Niro.
Metroblogging Seattle (Free subscription) | 06/30/2008
Northwest Film Forum is having a Hal Ashby film series this summer. Even if you don’t recognize his name, you’ve probably seen one of his movie as he was responsible for some of the most iconic movies made in the 1970’s, including Harold and Maude, Shampoo, Coming Home and Being There. All of [...]
MovingPictureBlog (Free subscription) | 06/27/2008
The rediscovery of Hal Ashby continues apace, with the Northwest Film Forum offering a retrospective that celebrates the late, great filmmaker's "incredible streak from 1970 to 1979" , and Jennifer Watchell rounding up some admiring and eloquent commentaries from directors who revere Ashby's oeuvre. (I meant to post a link to the latter days ago -- thanks to David Hudson of Green Cine for the reminder.)...
GreenCine Daily (Free subscription) | 06/27/2008
Hal Ashby's status in film-critic circles as an underrated genius has become, by now, somewhat overstated," writes Sean Nelson in the Stranger: If he was overlooked as film historians began the process of lionizing the great auteurs of the...
Seattle Weekly (Free subscription) | 06/25/2008
Hal Ashby (1929-1988) had a short, late flowering in a long, uneven career. This seven-film retrospective (through August 20) covers the hits: The Landlord , (tonight's series opener), Harold and Maude , The Last Detail (set in Seattle), Coming Home , Shampoo (fo...
