Gay South Florida (Free subscription) | 09/14/2008
From BroadwayWorld.com: TLAvideo.com has announced that the award-winning creative force behind the Miami Gay & Lesbian Film Festival, Carol Coombes, will be joining TLAvideo.com as a Managing Editor. Coombes will be working to develop and nurture TLAvideo’s growing and popular...
We The People Stories (Free subscription) | 05/29/2008
The National Constitution Center, in partnership with the Philadelphia Film Festival, presents a discussion with filmmaker Katrina Browne, director of "Traces of the Trade: A Story from the Deep North," and her cousin Thomas DeWolf, author of the new memoir "Inheriting the Trade," who together share the story of their ancestors, the largest slave-trading family in U.S. history. Program recorded on...
KansasCity.com (Free subscription) | 05/08/2008
Nick Goldsmith and Garth Jennings, the duo behind the crazy English coming-of-age film "Son of Rambow," were in town for the recent Philadelphia Film Festival. And Goldsmith, an inquisitive Londoner on his first visit to the U.S. city, picked up that day's edition of the Philadelphia Inquirer.
Philadelphia Inquirer (Free subscription) | 05/01/2008
This review originally appeared in coverage of the Philadelphia Film Festival. He possesses the lean face and enigmatic smile of actor Ryan Gosling, not to mention the comparable star quality.
Coffee Coffee and More Coffee (Free subscription) | 04/18/2008
Gidam Jung Brothers - 2007 TLA Releasing Epitaph recently was shown as part of the Danger After Dark series at the Philadelphia Film Festival. It is a very ambitious film in that the Jung Brothers are attempting to smarten...
Phillyist (Free subscription) | 04/15/2008
Films: Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer , Vexille Future Screenings: None Yesterday was my last day in attendance at this year's Philadelphia Film Festival. I'd originally scheduled myself for 30 movies in all, but in order to get in a little more face-time with my wife and dog, and also in order to keep myself from dying from exhaustion and/or malnutrition, I cut back a little bit and ended up seeing...
Cinematical (Free subscription) | 04/14/2008
Filed under: Foreign Language , Deals , United Artists , Philadelphia Film Festival One of my favorite films at this year's Philadelphia Film Festival, which is wrapping up now, was the Spanish time-travel thriller Timecrimes . (Yes, yes, I know, all of you saw it months ago at Fantastic Fest, or Sundance, or whatsuch. Bully for you.) We've known for a while that an American remake is in the works,...
rubber hose (Free subscription) | 04/11/2008
i am probably done with the philadelphia film festival this year. the fest will continue until next tuesday but i got a series of visitors coming so i think i'm out from now on. which means that the film blather on this blog will reduce substantially, returning to the classic rubber hose blather that all my readers (yes, both of you) know and love.
Phillyist (Free subscription) | 04/11/2008
With only five nights (including tonight) left in the Festival, everyone's beginning to wonder what the annual slate of Festival Favorites is going to look like. Wonder no longer—the Favorites were announced to Film Society members this morning, and are now posted on the official website . But no need to go there, because we have them, too! (Oh, and just in case you optimistically thought that your...
Phawker (Free subscription) | 04/11/2008
DEFICIT (2007, directed y Gael Garcia Bernal, 75 minutes, Mexico)BY DAN BUSKIRK FILM CRITIC Mexican heartthrob Gael Garcia Bernal (Che from The Motorcycle Diaries) tries his hand at directing with this multi-character story of twenty-something college friends meeting at a decaying summer home. Bernal’s roving camera picks up a number of relaxed and funny performances [...]
Philadelphia Inquirer (Free subscription) | 04/10/2008
Contrary to popular lore, not all is sweetness and light at the Philadelphia Film Festival. Here and there, you can make out tenebrous shapes lurking about, monsters with necrotic faces threatening to devour all those breezy, French romantic comedies.
Cinematical (Free subscription) | 04/10/2008
Filed under: Exhibition , Philadelphia Film Festival This rant will likely be of interest only to those of you who frequent festivals or are fortunate enough to be able to attend repertory film showings with any regularity. If you do fall into either of those categories, on the other hand, you'll almost certainly be able to sympathize. I've been spending a lot of time at the Philadelphia Film Festival...
Kaedrin Weblog (Free subscription) | 04/09/2008
One of the more successful Hong Kong films of recent years is Infernal Affairs , a story of an undercover cop and a police department mole. It was remade in the U.S. as The Departed and it netted Scorcese's first oscars (among others). The symmetrical plot of Infernal Affairs is cliever and complex, but the real strength of the film is the psychological struggle of people who've been undercover for...
Phillyist (Free subscription) | 04/08/2008
This week, take some time to think about how much unnecessary paper we are using up each day. When you see your fifteenth movie of the Philadelphia Film Festival , don't pick up yet another copy of the film guide. Don't print out that third recipe for macaroni and cheese from your favorite food blog, complete with nine extra pages of reader comments. Don't print out the Juno screenplay and re-read...
Philadelphia Inquirer (Free subscription) | 04/08/2008
THE PHILADELPHIA Film Festival's artistic achievement award this year goes to a confessed "screw-up" who came to performing after arrest, expulsion and estrangement from his own family.
