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Green Lifestyle Film Festival
2010-03-13 · Film Festival News
Green Lifestyle Film Festival is a unique green affair filled with a variety of uplifting events centered around the idea that film can be used to create change. Weekend festivities include a celebrity Green Carpet, vegan chefs, and more. Join us for a weekend of entertainment and food for thought!
Live from SXSW: Tim League Talks International Genre Lunacy by Scott Weinberg
2010-03-13 · Interwiev
If you're a hardcore movie geek and you've been to Austin at least once, you're probably familiar with the magical Tim League. Along with his wife/partner Karrie, Mr. League is the man behind not only the sublime Alamo Drafthouse movie theaters, but he also unleashed Fantastic Fest upon the world AND found time to create a karaoke bar/bowling alley called The Highball. Obviously Mr. League does none of these things by himself. But he does captain one hell of a movie shrine.
SXSW in 60 Seconds: March 12, 2010 by Christopher Campbell
2010-03-13
It's time for another visit to Austin for the South by Southwest Film Festival -- definitely NOT a lame festival, despite what some bloggers might think. We've got 13 of our writers down in Texas covering the event (though not all exclusively for us), so we're sure to have a lot of great reviews, interviews and whatever else we find worthy of reporting on over the next nine days. Today has primarily been devoted to travel and getting situated and standing in a massive line for the "packed-ass" opening night screening of Kick-Ass, but stop back again every evening as we round up the the best of our coverage and everyone else's.
5 Reasons The Oscars Matter Even Less Than You Thought
2010-03-13 · Awards
The Academy Awards are like Hollywood's Super Bowl (what with the betting pools, the bean dip, the coma-inducing length) but with one important difference: Super Bowl rings are actually awarded on merit.
You can't say the same about the Oscars. In an effort to shade the pageantry with a modicum of perspective, we'll be taking a look at the Academy's playbook of fuck-uppery. This is a gentle reminder to you, the discerning reader, that if you treat the Oscars as some sort of authority on what makes a film great, you're doing it wrong.
Twists, turns in 'Prodigal Sons' documentary
2010-03-12 · Documentary
Documentary by Kimberly Reed. At the Lumiere in San Francisco and the Shattuck in Berkeley. Reed will appear after the early evening and late shows at the Lumiere today and Saturday and after the late matinee at the Shattuck on Sunday.
Latino Film Festival brings world to Hazard Center
2010-03-12 · Film Festival News
Festivalgoers don’t need a passport to travel the world through the movies showcased at the 17th annual San Diego Latino Film Festival (SDLFF). Along with the outstanding San Diego Asian Film Festival, SDLFF towers over the local festival scene on the consistent strength of its diverse programming. It speaks to the Latino experience with creativity, style and a focus on community.
Hollywood Studio to Back Micro-Budget Movies by Eugene Hernandez
2010-03-12 · Cinema
After effectively abandoning specialty films, Hollywood studio Paramount Pictures is expected to officially unveil a new division for micro-budget movies today. Dubbed Insurge Pictures, the unit has one million dollars fueling its films. 10 movies are on tap in the first year at a budget of just $100,000 each.
Review: Green Zone by Jeffrey M. Anderson
2010-03-12 · Film Reviews
The Oscar nominated British director Paul Greengrass seems drawn to "issue" movies. His feature directorial debut was the disease-of-the-week movie The Theory of Flight (1998), and he found acclaim with the explosive Bloody Sunday (2002) and the gripping, grueling United 93 (2006), though none of those exactly resulted in a bonanza of ticket sales. He seemed to come closer to his true calling with the second two Bourne films, The Bourne Supremacy (2004) and The Bourne Ultimatum (2007), bringing his gift for tense action as well as uncommon intelligence to a pair of summer action films. If there were any "issues" in those movies, they were buried deep in the kinetic plots.
