Apple Hot News (Free subscription) | 08/29/2008
Written and directed by Darren Grodsky and Danny Jacobs, Humboldt County tells the story of disillusioned medical student Peter Hadley (Jeremy Strong) who finds himself in California’s picturesque but remote “Lost Coast” among an eccentric family of marijuana farmers. Humboldt County opens in theaters on September 26.
Frankly My Dear... (Free subscription) | 08/28/2008
Sometimes it seems that all I'm writing about these days is movies about pot or pot dealers or documentaries about potheads doing prison time. It's a post-Weeds phenomenon, perhaps. But here's a film that would appear to fall within that...
High-Def Digest: All Hig (Free subscription) | 08/27/2008
The Criterion Collection has announced their first wave of next-gen releases, bringing the classics 'The Third Man' and 'The Man Who Fell to Earth' to Blu-ray in mid-November. Much to the delight of cineastes...
Variety.com (Free subscription) | 08/26/2008
Film News: $50,000 awarded to guest director program -- The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences has awarded $50,000 to the Telluride Film Festival's guest director program.
Latest Movie Trailers (Free subscription) | 08/26/2008
At the edge of the continent and on the margins of society is a region of California known to some as “The Lost Coast.” It is there, in HUMBOLDT COUNTY, that Peter Hadley (Jeremy Strong) - a promising yet disillusioned medical student failed by his professor (Peter Bogdanovich) - stumbles upon a remote community of counterculture marijuana farmers and a warmly embracing, yet eccentric family played...
Matt Dentler's Blog (Free subscription) | 08/18/2008
One of the biggest crowdpleasers at SXSW 2008 was Danny Jacobs and Darren Grodsky's Humboldt County a unique and smart family/pot comedy. The guys (who are also just total sweethearts) have been making the rounds to promote the film's September 26 release by Magnolia Pictures. As part of their release campaign, they made this promo video which includes interviews with...
RopeofSilicon: Latest Headlines (Free subscription) | 08/18/2008
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SpoutBlog (Free subscription) | 08/18/2008
Chris posted this a couple of weeks ago but, since the Bog Saget Comedy Central roast thing finally aired last night and the whole internet is going batshit crazy for Cloris Leachman, I thought I’d post this video again. Also, I just kind of get a kick out of imagining what Peter Bogdanovich thinks [...]
Gawker (Free subscription) | 08/12/2008
Salon.com just launched "Open Salon," one of those crowdsourcing-user generated-social network online stews where you, the public can blog just like a real blogger! On Salon! So exciting. Plus your...
Gawker (Free subscription) | 08/12/2008
Movie critic Elvis Mitchell (remember him? crazy-but-readable Times crit in those glorious pre-Manohla fucking Dargis days') had $12,000 seized by U.S. border guards as he tried to go back home to...
Manolo for the Men (Free subscription) | 08/12/2008
Izzy more than a bit fascinated by the appearance of film directors, whose line of work makes them especially attune to visuals. Hence, he was especially happy to see an interview of Peter Bogdanovich about his trademark bandanna: You have developed a very distinct signature style of wearing ascots. How did that start? They [...]
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 08/10/2008
Oh, if only Casablanca were in color! If only Charlie Chaplin's City Lights had spoken dialogue! If only Errol Flynn's The Adventures of Robin Hood...
More Than Meets the Mogwai (Free subscription) | 08/02/2008
Watched Robert Benton's masterful BAD COMPANY just last night on Turner Classic Movies for the very first time, and became even more captivated with the performer Barry Brown. My introduction to him came via Peter Bogdanovich's DAISY MILLER (with P.B. referring to him as "the only American actor you can believe ever read a book"), but here he's much more jocular, not so sullen, yet still possessing...
Latest Movie Updates (Free subscription) | 07/31/2008
Release date shifted back to October 31st, 2008. Updated studio associated with this film. Added the film's tagline. Updated MPAA rating: PG-13. Added the MPAA rating reason.
Tonight (Free subscription) | 07/31/2008
Actress Cybill Shepherd claims she is being haunted by ex-love Elvis Presley.
