The Museum of Modern Art has announced the program for The Contenders, its annual screening series of the most notable works from the year in film.  Choices are made by the museum’s Department of Film and quite a big deal to Indie Movie fans. Some of the titles mentioned up for awards are: My Week [...]

Now I expect this behaviour from Kayne West – an egotistical rapper who thinks the world is his playground and also his punching bag. West was arrested today at LAX after he and a bodyguard attack TMZ photographers and smashed their cameras (Although unrelated to the story at hand, got here to watch the video [...]

After mentioning Variety Editor Peter Part’s dire op-ed Why Art House Movies are on the Endangered Species List in an earlier post, and then mentioning how promising Good looked, a film premiering at the Toronto International Film Festival, I figured the following article would be of some interest. But as Anthony Kaufman mentions in his [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 they [...]

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 [...]