2008 April | Indie Cine
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Apr 16 2008
There is nothing more American than a baseball motion picture. It is like mixing apple pie with democracy. These movies are filled with classic Americana, dramatic sports action, and a subject that most boys and girls who grew up with a mitt in their hand can relate to. We even reserve our [...]
Apr 15 2008
Remember “Reality Bites”, Ben Stiller’s 90’s era period piece that dealt with such sordid topics as The Gap and MTV? Its a great movie for sure, but since it was made in the obviously biased year of 94′, its hard to say it was the quintessential or even the most honest film about the decade; [...]
Apr 14 2008
Only in existence since 2001, THINKfilm is a company whose films sail under the radar upon their release, yet are often heralded during awards season. For instance 2007’s “Taxi From the Dark Side” won the Oscar for best documentary feature. Other contributions in the genre include “Murderball,” “Spellbound,” and one of my personal favorites “I [...]
Apr 07 2008
When I was young I was mesmerized by a movie/short film I saw about a young boy and his red balloon. I have never seen the film since, but have always wanted to, and I never forgot it. It was one of those little treasures that I had found that I’d hoped I would run [...]
Apr 05 2008
You can now check out the new trailer from Brazilian director Fernando Meirelles (of “The Constant Gardener” and “City of God”), “Blindness,” starring one of my very favorite actors - Gael García Bernal - as well as Mark Ruffalo and Julianne Moore.
The story, based off of Jose Saramango’s novel, is about the wife of a doctor who [...]
Apr 05 2008
I had a little extra cash last week and thought I’d go on a little Amazon shopping spree and order all of those classic movies that have been near and dear to me over the course of my life.
When I was done, I looked at my cart and realized that most all of my movies [...]
I have always thought of the Olympic opening ceremonies as a little overdramatic and dare I say cheesy. Well thanks to a 300 million dollar budget and the artistic vision of renowned Chinese film director Zhang Yimou, 2008’s Bejing ceremonies were legendary - despite the frequent flood warnings and technical difficulties interrupting the broadcast thanks [...]
Bret Easton Ellis strikes again; Wayfarers, New Order, drugs, sex, and rich LA brats. Welcome to the first look at “The Informers”, the film adaptation of Ellis’s 1994 novel of the same name in which he also wrote the screenplay.
“The drama is set over the course of a week in 1983, in the chillingly [...]
In the 1950’s Hollywood was producing around forty westerns per year, that number fell to twenty during the 60’s, around ten per year in the 1970’s through 90’s, and in the new millennium, we are lucky to get five westerns each year. But when those westerns are of the caliber of 2007’s “3:10 [...]