The Toronto International Film Festival, held September 4-13th, has just released their schedule of Special Presentation Films. In addition to Canadian films, competitions, and student showcases, this 33rd incarnation of the event will have many amazing World and North American premieres. A short list appears below with many more here.
The TIFF started in 1976 and [...]

The 61st Festival de Cannes has just wrapped up and they have selected the winners of the various francophone awards. Below is an abbreviation of the full list, ie. the films that you are most likely to see in theaters in the near future.
IN COMPETTION - FEATURE FILMS
Palme d’Or
ENTRE LES MURS de / by Laurent [...]

Watch the trailer below and see if it matters whether or not the story makes any sense. The visuals are just that amazing.
Waltz With Bashir, the first official trailer from cinemascopian.com on Vimeo.
Ari Folman is both the filmmaker and main character, and depicts his personal struggle over a 1982 massacre of more than three thousand [...]

Have you ever wanted to see what the red carpet set up at a movie premier looks like at 5 in the morning……….in France!!!!??? Well with IFC’s new 24hour Cannes Film Festival Cam, you can. No this is not an infomercial. The internet cam comes with a schedule of daily events and a running clock, [...]

This is definitely not a complete list, but you can view 70 trailers from films showing at this years Tribeca Film Festival Here. It would take a while to watch them all, and it may be hard to get to excited unless you plan on seeing some of these at the festival, but it does [...]

ESPN started in 1979 with one cable television station. Today, the media conglomerate has over 15 television stations in addition to radio stations, websites, a large circulation magazine, a prime time awards show, and a chain of restaurants. The obviously glaring omission here is a film production company, and that is not to say [...]

I have a little addition to my post yesterday about Roger Ebert and his annual Eberfest of unsung films. Today, which happens to be the festival’s opening day, Ebert has debuted a blog title Roger Eberts’ Journal, which can be found on his website.
His first post relays a story of an encounter with science fiction [...]

It turns out Roger Ebert will not let a little thing like thyroid cancer stop his namesake engagment, Ebertfest. “The show must go on,” he recently told the Chicago Sun Times website. And while it is still unclear in what capacity Ebert will be attending, he will definitely be present at his 10th annual celebration [...]