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10 Movie Events That Shaped the Decade (For Movie Fans)
21 December 2009 10:29 AM, PST | ScreenRant.com | See recent Screen Rant news »
We’ve come to the end of 2009, so we thought we’d weigh in with a look back at the first 10 years of the 21st century in the movie world and discuss the various different “events” which shaped the decade. Obviously we can’t cover absolutely everything, but sticking true to our core movie genres on the site, we’re just going to concentrate on the comic-book, sci-fi, action (and so forth) types of movies and take a look at what films had the maximum impact over this decade.
It’s amazing to think that it’s been 10 years since movies like The Matrix, American Beauty and Fight Club (to name but a few) came out in 1999 (check out our 1999 decade highlight, if you haven’t already). A Lot of movies – somewhere in the vicinity of 5,000-6,000 – have been released since then. We’ve had the good, the bad and »
- Ross Miller
Synecdoche New York: The Film of 2009
21 December 2009 9:22 AM, PST | t5m.com | See recent t5m.com news »
Rather than hit up another top ten list of films from the last 12 months (mine would probably include The White Ribbon, A Prophet, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Milk, Fish Tank, A Serious Man and Encounters at the End of the World amongst others) I instead decided to put one egg in one basket. Its a weird egg too so I must apologise. You know one of those ones with two yolks in it or a smaller egg? One of those that people might say is actually from 2008... you know?... one of them... Over the last 8 months I have seen Charlie Kaufman's almost unpronounceable first film as director, four times. I suppose its power the first time around was its comedy (yes it is in there) and its overwhelming ambition as a piece of film-making. In short at first glance I thought it was fascinating, exhausting and totally unique. Like forcing »
- Neil Innes
Three New Images from Percy Jackson and the Olympians
14 December 2009 10:11 AM, PST | SciFiCool.com | See recent SciFiCool.com news »
“Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief” is the latest in a long line of big budgeted teen-centric fantasy movies vying for the title of “the next ‘Harry Potter’ franchise”. I’m not sure if “Percy Jackson” will make it, but here are three new images from the movie that probably won’t convince you either way. The film stars Uma Thurman, Logan Lerman, Rosario Dawson, Pierce Brosnan, Sean Bean, Kevin McKidd, Catherine Keener, and Alexandra Daddario. A young boy discovers he’s the descendant of a Greek god and sets out on an adventure to settle an on-going battle between the gods. Based on the book by Rick Riordan. Chris Columbus directs the film, scheduled to strike February 12, 2010. »
- Nix
First Look: Duplass Brothers' Newest Sundance Film 'Cyrus'
12 December 2009 8:30 PM, PST | firstshowing.net | See recent FirstShowing.net news »
When it was first announced that this film would be premiering at the upcoming Sundance Film Festival, it was called the Untitled Duplass Brothers Project. Now it has an official title, Cyrus, and we have the first official photo from it. Cyrus stars Marisa Tomei, Jonah Hill, John C. Reilly, and Catherine Keener. It's about a recently divorced guy (Reilly) who meets the woman of his dreams (Tomei). Then he meets her son (Hill) who is well... interesting. It's another mumblecore comedy from the Duplass Brothers but apparently a little more mainstream than we've seen them before, especially because it was developed by Fox Searchlight. Here's a little blurb from Sundance about the film: "Cyrus becomes a dark, poignant, sometimes hilarious war dance as Molly, Cyrus, and John walk the line between creepy and sympathetic. Each member of this awkward triangle teeters somewhere between bare honesty and furtive manipulation as »
- Alex Billington
Predictions 2010 Sundance Film Festival: Holofcener, Dosunmu, Cam Archer
12 December 2009 6:25 PM, PST | ioncinema | See recent ioncinema news »
In John Cooper's first year as head honcho, we'll get to see a new sidebar going by the name of "Next". Whether this is just a more organized, fresh coat of paint to distinguish films of the festival that don't receive the major buzz (for reasons x, y and z) or a new view a newly shaped mandate, the festival offers "independent" films that provide the star quotient and stick to their roots. - In John Cooper's first year as head honcho, we'll get to see a new sidebar going by the name of "Next". Whether this is just a more organized, fresh coat of paint to distinguish films of the festival that don't receive the major buzz (for reasons x, y and z) or a new view a newly shaped mandate, the festival offers "independent" films that provide the star quotient and stick to their roots. Take »
- Ioncinema.com Staff
Where the Wild Things Are | Film review
10 December 2009 3:00 PM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Maurice Sendak's classic picturebook is expanded into a dark, imaginative full-length movie. By Peter Bradshaw
What would it be like if Edmund, Lucy, Peter and Susan Pevensie could escape from wartorn Britain through the back of a wardrobe – only to be totally cool and blank about this new world of fawns and talking lions? Or if Dorothy and Toto could fly away from drab family strife to a multi-coloured land of midgets and witches and yellow brick roads and yet remain shruggingly laidback about the evident contrast between this place and Kansas? My guess is that it would look like this film, Spike Jonze's subdued, deadpan and even slightly depressive account of Maurice Sendak's much-loved 1963 picturebook classic Where the Wild Things Are.
It has been expanded into a full-length psychological study of childhood loneliness and dysfunction, in which an unruly boy called Max (tousle-haired, 12-year-old Max Roberts »
- Peter Bradshaw, Dave Eggers
Which Sundance Film Can You Watch in Your Town?
10 December 2009 12:20 PM, PST | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »
Film festival coverage is great -- you get a sneak peek at the movies to come, the little gems you probably wouldn't have heard about, buzz about upcoming projects. But it can also be an annoying, tantalizing tease -- especially when the films you want to see take months -- and sometimes years -- to hit the screens ... if they do at all. But it looks like Sundance is doing a little bit to change that. The Sundance Institute is kicking off Sundance Film Festival USA -- and it's not just films screening in random cities across the country -- they're sending eight filmmakers to screen their films in eight major cities on January 28. That means not only seeing the film, but checking out a Q&A.
The tickets are available at each locale's box office, and it's a killer list of films that makes me officially jealous. The lucky »
- Monika Bartyzel
Sundance Sends Filmmakers to 8 Cities to Show Their Films During the Festival
9 December 2009 9:39 PM, PST | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »
If you can’t go to the 2010 Sundance Film Festival, don’t cry! The Sundance Institute is making 2010 the inaugural year of Sundance Film Festival USA where eight filmmakers showing their film at the festival will show it to a major metropolitan area…so as long as you live in or near one of those eight major cities, then you don’t need to cry.
The films going out through the nation are The Duplass Brothers’ Cyrus starring John C. Reilly, Marisa Tomei, and Jonah Hill; John Wells The Company Men starring Ben Affleck, Tommy Lee Jones, and Kevin Costner (Brookline; The Safdie Brothers’ Daddy Longlegs; Philip Seymour Hoffman’s Jack Goes Boating starring Hoffman and Amy Ryan; Adrian Grenier’s documentary Teenage Paparazzo; Floria Sigismondi’s The Runaways starring Kristen Stewart and Dakota Fanning; Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini’s The Extra Man starring Kevin Kline and Paul Dano »
- Matt Goldberg
Sundance USA Slate Revealed
9 December 2009 2:09 PM, PST | Filmmaker Magazine - Blog | See recent Filmmaker Magazine news »
The Sundance Institute announced today the the films that will screen in eight different cities nationwide on Jan. 28th for their inaugural Sundance Film Festival USA series. The filmmakers will be dispatched from Park City to cities across America, where they will introduce and screen their films and engage in Q&As with local audiences. The films are:
Cyrus -- Ann Arbor, Mi -- Michigan Theater
Directors and screenwriters: Jay Duplass and Mark Duplass –A recently divorced guy meets a new lady. Then he meets her son who is, well...interesting. Cast: John C. Reilly, Marisa Tomei, Jonah Hill, Catherine Keener. World Premiere
The Company Men -- Brookline, Ma -- Coolidge Corner Theatre Director and screenwriter John Wells will screen »
- Jason Guerrasio
Where The Wild Things Are: a testament to the power of childhood
9 December 2009 6:53 AM, PST | t5m.com | See recent t5m.com news »
Dir: Spike Jonze Cast: Max Records, Catherine Keener, James Gandolfini, Lauren Ambrose, Chris Cooper, Paul Dano, Forest Whitaker Maurice Sendak’s 1965 children’s classic ‘Where The Wild Things Are’ is one of those primal, infallible texts that have been around for long enough to inform the world-view of parents and children alike. Like Lewis Carroll’s poems and Aesop’s fables, it is a brutally simple tale reminding us of the Dionysian chaos and fury that lurks beneath the surface of our manicured lives. So who better to bring this warped and wonderful story to the big screen than the ‘realiseur’ of Charlie Kaufman’s most famous scripts, the possessor of a juvenile, ‘Jackass’ sense of fun, and the inventor of a raw and powerful aesthetic that defined a generation of skateboarding, Sonic Youth fans… Spike Jonze. Jonze has already stamped his mark on the film before the first frame »
- Nicholas Deigman
Sundance Primer: Untitled Duplass Brothers Project (aka Cyrus)
8 December 2009 9:15 AM, PST | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »
Welcome to a new series here at Cinematical where we'll shine a spotlight on different films premiering at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival in January.
Starring John C. Reilly, Marisa Tomei, Jonah Hill and Catherine Keener, the Duplass Brothers (Jay and Mark) will return to the Sundance Film Festival yet again this year with what is definitely their most "star-studded" cast yet. The low-budget boys who first hit Sundance with a short film they made for three bucks (the cost of a tape) have since stormed the fest (as writer-directors) with their first feature, The Puffy Chair, and its follow-up, Baghead.
This year the boys will find their latest baby backed by Fox Searchlight in the Premieres section of Sundance, and out of competition. In an effort to learn a little more about the buzzed-about film (presumably due in theaters at some point in 2010), Cinematical asked co-writer/director Mark Duplass three questions about the movie, »
- Erik Davis
Sundance Reveals 2010 Non-Competition Slate
4 December 2009 5:24 PM, PST | newsinfilm.com | See recent newsinfilm news »
On Wednesday the Sundance Film Festival unveiled the films competing in late January 2010. Yesterday they announced the rest of the line-up of independent films vying for attention for industry types and the curious public.
The entire list of 53 films is below, but here are a few that stood out to me from the premieres alone:
Mumblecore directors the Duplass Brothers, have a new, untitled movie starring an unusually high-profile cast compared to their usual improvisational crew. John C. Reilly, Marisa Tomei, Jonah Hill, and Catherine Keener. Reilly and Keener are actually in two films at the 2010 festival.
The Company Men, starring Ben Affleck, Kevin Costner, Maria Bello, Tommy Lee Jones, Chris Cooper, Rosemarie DeWitt about corporate downsizing.
Rodrigo Cortes’ Buried, starring Ryan Reynolds as a man buried alive in a coffin. I’ve read the script and its great. More on that as soon as I can.
The Runaways, the »
- Jeff Leins
David Thomson on Spike Jonze
4 December 2009 1:10 AM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Here endeth the legend of the genius of the director Spike Jonze: Where the Wild Things Are is nothing but a disaster
The hero of Maurice Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are is Max, and he's six or seven, but 100 on the mischief scale. He's so bad that his mother (never seen in the book), sends him to bed without supper. That's when Max turns deeply angry and when his own room begins to take on the apparatus of a jungle. And so Max heads off in the world, into mischief's imagination, to find the wild things. And when he comes home afterwards, there's his supper waiting on the table in his room, and not a mother in sight.
Many of you know this book: it is a 10-minute read if you spin it out with extra screams and shouts when the wild things go wild. And now, »
- David Thomson
New Percy Jackson Trailer
3 December 2009 10:33 PM, PST | EmpireOnline | See recent EmpireOnline news »
A new trailer has gone up for Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief, and it's one of those efforts that goes to such great lengths to explain what's happening that it gives away just a bit too much. That said, it also promises some good action and interesting names, so stick with us as we take a look.Our hero is Perseus "Percy" Jackson (Logan Lerman) is an ordinary New Yorker with a penchant for getting into trouble and being moved from school to school. He discovers that this is because he's a demi-God, son of one of the Greek Gods who are still alive and well and living on top of the Empire State Building. Only problem is that monsters are after him, Zeus (Sean Bean) thinks that Percy stole his all-powerful Lightning Bolt and he's being moved to a new school / summer camp for demi-gods like himself.So far, »
Sundance 2010 Announced Out-of-Competition Lineup
3 December 2009 9:31 PM, PST | WeAreMovieGeeks.com | See recent WeAreMovieGeeks.com news »
We are 49 days out and counting down to Sundance 2010. Yesterday, we unveiled the list of competition films for the upcoming festival. Today, we have your list of out-of-competition films which include Premieres, Spotlight, New Frontier, and, my personal favorite, Park City at Midnight, which has featured past entries like Black Dynamite, The Descent, and Saw.
Check out next year’s lineup for the out-of-competition films:
Premieres
To showcase the diversity to contemporary independent cinema, the Sundance Film Festival Premieres section offers the latest work from American and international directors as well as world premieres of highly anticipated films. Presented by Entertainment Weekly.
Abel / Mexico, USA (Director: Diego Luna; Screenwriters: Diego Luna and Agusto Mendoza)–A peculiar young boy, blurring reality and fantasy, assumes the responsibilities of a family man in his father’s absence. Cast: Jose Maria Yazpik, Karina Gidi, Carlos Aragon, Christopher Ruiz-Esparza, Gerardo Ruiz-Esparza. World Premiere
Cane Toads: »
- Kirk
Sundance 2010 Non-Competition Line-Up Looks Strong
3 December 2009 3:30 PM, PST | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »
Yesterday we got the list for the films playing in competition at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival and today we get the rest of the films that will be featured and there are quite a few that make 2010 look much stronger based on pedigree alone than I have seen in quite some time. Variety has a big write-up detailing the categories and more on the festival right here, but I am just going to offer up the titles and let you sort it all out.
The titles already in the RopeofSilicon database are linked.
Premieres
All films are from the United States unless otherwise noted Abel (Mexico-u.S.), the directorial debut of actor Diego Luna, written by Luna and Agusto Mendoza, about a peculiar young boy who, as he blurs reality and fantasy, takes over the responsibilities of a family man in his father's absence. With Jose Maria Yazpik, Karina Gidi, »
- Brad Brevet
Nowhere Boy, The Runaways and The Company Men All to Premiere At 2010 Sundance Film Festival Out-Of-Competition
3 December 2009 2:58 PM, PST | FusedFilm | See recent FusedFilm news »
Sundance Institute announced today the lineup of films selected to screen in the out-of-competition section of Premieres. Some very anticipated films that we have been tracking are included. Films like The Runaways, starring Kristen Bell and Dakota Fanning as the 70s girl rock group headliners, Joan Jett and Cherie Currie. We have also been following The Company Men and Nowhere Boy, so we are excited to see these films at Sundance 2010.
To showcase the diversity to contemporary independent cinema, the Sundance Film Festival Premieres section offers the latest work from American and international directors as well as world premieres of highly anticipated films. The Premiere section is being presented by Entertainment Weekly.
Abel / Mexico, USA (Director: Diego Luna; Screenwriters:Diego Luna and Agusto Mendoza)-A peculiar young boy, blurring reality and fantasy, assumes the responsibilities of a family man in his father’s absence. Cast: Jose Maria Yazpik, Karina Gidi, »
- Kevin Coll
2010 Sundance Film Festival Out-of-Competition Films: Premieres
3 December 2009 2:34 PM, PST | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »
Yesterday we gave you a list of all the films playing in-competition at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival. We now have the list of the films playing out-of-competition and they’re divided up into four categories: Premieres, Next, Spotlight, and Park City at Midnight. Since combining these lists would be a lot to read for just one article, we’ve broken it up to give each category its own article.
Know that while there are a lot of films playing in-competition, most of the films to get buzz will be coming from the out-of-competition categories. First up are the premiers which include John Wells’ The Company Men starring Ben Affleck, Tommy Lee Jones and Kevin Costner; Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini’s The Extra Man starring Katie Holmes, John C. Reilly, and Paul Dano; Get Low starring Robert Duvall and Bill Murray; Michael Winterbottom’s The Killer Inside Me starring Casey Affleck, »
- Matt Goldberg
Full Sundance line-up announced...and it's a doozy!
3 December 2009 2:08 PM, PST | QuietEarth.us | See recent QuietEarth news »
In addition to the competition titles which were announced yesterday, Sundance has announced the remainder of their line-up and it includes some titles we’re already familiar with along with a huge number of premieres.
Also on the docket are two new series: Next which showcases low/no budget films and Spotlight which highlights films which festival programmers deem worthy of extra love including Enter the Void (review) and Lourdes (the trailer for which I really liked).
I’m particularly excited to see some of the titles in the New Frontier program but overall, the line-up is an impressive one but the Kristen Stewart fan in me is excited to see her turn as Joan Jett in The Runaways and I think it’s fair to say we’re all dying to see Vincenzo Natali’s hotly anticipated Splice (trailer).
In the Midnight section, Adam Green's Frozen is sounding mighty find, »
Sundance '10 Announces Non-Competing Film Premieres
3 December 2009 1:50 PM, PST | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »
Sundance is a celebration of independent filmmaking, but half the fun is seeing the premieres of larger films that might not come out for months, or years in some cases. In fact, the non-industry people who attend Sundance every year might not be able to tell you what documentary won the Grand Jury prize last year (it was Ondi Timoner's We Live In Public), but they're always able to tell you when they saw "that new George Clooney movie."
With that in mind, Sundance has announced the premieres that are screening out of competition. You can see a full list, complete with synopsis and cast listing for each film, just beyond the break. There's a few standouts so far, and I'd have to say my most eagerly anticipated is The Company Men, where Ben Affleck, Kevin Costner, Tommy Lee Jones, Chris Cooper and others have to survive corporate downsizing. »
- Kevin Kelly
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