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Peter Chattaway, filmchat : "Eagle Eye co-writer Travis Adam Wright has been hired to write the script for Warner Brothers' adaptat...

A Peter Chattaway recommendation from the 2009 Vancouver International Film Festival

Malcolm Brody has a notable film blog at The New Yorker. In this recent post , he considers GERMANY YEAR ZERO from Rossellini's war tril...

Over at Filmwell , Andrew Spitznas posted a nice tribute for Kurosawa's 100th birthday. The formative event in his own childhood occurre...

A few years back, much fuss - mostly deserved - was made over THE LIVES OF OTHERS, and everybody saw it. (Perhaps because of the irresistabl...

A couple years ago, Pacific Theatre did a themed season, "PT Goes To The Movies." It featured a special "Stage & Screen...

The Conversations (at Slant.com ) is a monthly feature in which Jason Bellamy and Ed Howard discuss a wide range of cinematic subjects. This...

Paste Magazine The Fifty Best Living Directors 1. Martin Scorsese | Raging Bull 2. Jean-Luc Godard | Breathless 3. Steven Spielberg | Schind...

“I want to thank anyone who spends part of their day creating. I don’t care if it’s a book, a film, a painting, a dance, a piece of theater,...

Foxes are Fantastic and Prawns are Prime a t Videomatica.ca 's 1 1 th Alternative Oscars While Hollywood was busy showcasing lengthy ...

New Yorker's Richard Brody is rare among film critics in finding things to praise about GENTLEMEN BRONCOS, the third film from Mormon fi...

In LORNA'S SILENCE (Sony), the Belgian directors Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, shooting on location in Liège, use symbolic and theatrica...

In 2004, 2005 and 2006 the Arts & Faith conversation board created a list of 100 "spiritually significant" films. Last year th...

Nice line-up at this year's City Of Angels Fest in L.A. Not mentioned in the note below: Lourdes (Jessica Hausner), Seraphine (Martin...

Norman Stone is a well-thought-of director with a ton of BBC Film credits, whose work includes the first screen version of SHADOWLANDS (pref...

(Originally posted November 27 2006, reposted with swell vintage poster images to celebrate the release of the new Criterion release of Ross...

(Originally posted November 27, 2006) Summer 2006, the Flickerings sidebar to the Cornerstone music festival showcased a number of Rossellin...

Wonderful news! One of the best films of last year is new on Criterion - it arrives at Videomatica February 16. Here's a link to the o...