http://indiecineblog.com Independent Movies Wed, 02 Nov 2011 23:20:35 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 [...] No related posts. Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> http://indiecineblog.com/2011/11/02/lineup-for-momas-yearly-contenders-series-announced/ Enter the Void (Gaspar Noé, 2010) – Gaspar Noé lets his freak flag fly in Enter the Void, his DMT-tripping, POV-camera epic of indulgence. Whether you dismiss it as trash or praise it as genius, there is no denying that Noé is working on an entirely original level. After seeing the film at Cannes in [...] No related posts. Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> http://indiecineblog.com/2010/08/20/enter-the-void-gaspar-noe-2010-movie-review/ 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 [...] No related posts. Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> http://indiecineblog.com/2008/09/12/ebert-attacked-this-time-not-by-roeper-or-thyroid/ You don’t have to be an Art History grad student to appreciate the obvious difference in image quality apparent in the above frames of both the original and restored prints of The Godfather. Tomorrow will be day one of NY’s The Film Forum, limited engagment of The Godfather Part I and II which I had [...] No related posts. Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> http://indiecineblog.com/2008/09/11/el-godfather-uno-dos-tres-restoration-update/ I am sitting here watching the very engaging 2008 documenatary kicking It on ESPN and feeling very enlightened on the Homelessness issue. The movie follows six homeless men from around the world as they gear up for the 4th annual Homeless World Cup soccer tournament in Cape Town South Africa. I recommend you go here [...] No related posts. Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> http://indiecineblog.com/2008/09/11/the-soloist-trailer/ I have always been fascinated with the 610 cardboard boxes that encompass Andy Warhol’s Time Capsules; his attempt to document the 1960′s through the 1980′s. I imagine that for a museum curator, the thought of riffling through the great artist’s boxes of magazine clippings, photographs, and random correspondences, is attune to that first walk through [...] No related posts. Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> http://indiecineblog.com/2008/09/10/kubricks-boxes/ 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 [...] No related posts. Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> http://indiecineblog.com/2008/09/03/the-business-of-indie/ If World War II were a character actor, it is quite possible that its IMDB filmography could rival that of Michael Caine. Maybe. The point is, we see so many World War II movies released every year, that many good ones are often overlooked. So with the impending release of big name WWII dramas like [...] No related posts. Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> http://indiecineblog.com/2008/09/02/good-the-boy-in-the-striped-pyjamas/ When I originally No related posts. Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> http://indiecineblog.com/2008/08/28/towelhead-controversy-has-arrived/ According to Peter Part, editor of Variety Magazine, independent film is finished, as gleamed from his blog post titled :Why Art House Movies are on the Endangered Species List. Go ahead and read the entire post below and let me know what you think. I must have been preoccupied because I missed the ‘thud.’ The [...] No related posts. Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> http://indiecineblog.com/2008/08/27/rip-independent-film/