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'Curb's' Jeff Garlin and Michael Moore bring comedy festival to Michigan
26 December 2009 10:29 AM, PST | Monsters and Critics | See recent Monsters and Critics news »
HBO "Curb Your Enthusiasm" star and producer Jeff Garlin and filmmaker Michael Moore are collaborating on a new comedy project that hopes to inject some dollars and laughs into the Wolverine State. Moore is a son of Flint, Michigan, and he has created a summer film festival in Traverse City, and now he will add a mid-winter comedy festival to draw people, business and some excitement to the economically depressed state. Moore and Emmy winner Jeff Garlin have announced they will craft a mid-winter comedic counterpart to the summer fest; the inaugural Traverse City Comedy Arts Festival will be held Feb. 19-21. The proposed venue is the State Theatre, a refurbished, 546-seat movie house that Moore saved from »
- April MacIntyre
Boos! & Whoop-doos!: 12 Months of Toilet Plunkers and Dumpster Diamonds!
23 December 2009 9:55 AM, PST | MovieWeb | See recent MovieWeb news »
The End of 2009? Whoop-doo! This year has been one hellatious shit storm from the get-go. Pregnant ladies and babies, The Great Depression Part II, pig flu, more than a handful of horrible shootings, a balloon boy, Tiger's indiscretions, and our first black president. Not to mention more dead celebrities than I can shake a stick at. Every time I turned around, some other atrocious calamity was happening right before my eyes. Making 2009 one of the most interesting years of this entire decade. According to Michael Ruppert in his film Collapse its only going to get worse before it gets better. Yes, the Teens are going to see more than half of your friends and family dead. Take account of the folks around you. By the time 2020 rears its ugly head, most of these people will be gone. Turned to dust and painful memories. My advice to you this coming New Year? »
John Mayer, Michael Moore, Simon Pegg And Others Respond To 'Avatar' In This Twitter-Wood Early Edition
21 December 2009 12:00 PM, PST | MTV Movies Blog | See recent MTV Movies Blog news »
As you all know quite well, "Avatar" hit theaters this weekend. And while celebrities have ways of finagling themselves tickets to official premieres -- I think there's a secret handshake or something -- plenty of them turned out to "slum it" with their adoring public for public screenings of the movie. Or at least, that's what it seems like based on the influx of tweets on our Twitter-Wood feed.
The tone has been mostly positive on the Hollywood insider front. Hell, last week superstar actor Ben Stiller appeared on "The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien" with only one thing in mind: pimping James Cameron's sci-fi epic! "Oh, I'm here to talk about 'Avatar.'" he said. "I'm really excited about it, Conan. It's gonna be... it's just going to be an amazing movie." Hit the jump for more from celebs on "Avatar," fresh from the Twitter-Wood feed.
@johncmayer »
- Adam Rosenberg
Best films of the noughties No 10: Fahrenheit 9/11 | Andrew Pulver
21 December 2009 6:53 AM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
It's Michael Moore's most significant film, and one whose effects are still being felt today
It seems strange to reflect that, drowning as we are these days in campaigning documentary films, when he started out, Michael Moore was one of a kind. Ever since his 1989 film Roger & Me, in which he harassed the CEO of General Motors over the closure of car plants employing some 30,000 people in his home town of Flint, Michigan, Moore has pioneered a new kind of cinema: activist, articulate, passionate, funny – but above all, engaging. Plenty of documentarists knew more history, or were more politically committed, but Moore's special abilities lay in putting a human face on hot-potato issues. Moore pulled off the same trick with Bowling for Columbine, his 2002 film which sought to excoriate America's gun culture and place on it considerable responsibility for the high-school massacre.
But it was his decision to explore »
- Andrew Pulver
The Best of the Decade: Documentaries
17 December 2009 9:30 AM, PST | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »
The 2000s were a great decade for documentaries, both artistically and commercially. Four films (Fahrenheit 9/11, March of the Penguins and this year's Earth and This Is It) grossed more than $100 million worldwide, with two of them even topping the $200 million mark. Meanwhile, plenty of other films, whether due to their politics or their humorous entertainment value, broke through with mainstream audiences, primarily in the arthouse circuit but also on home video. And speaking of home viewing, thanks to Netflix and free online streaming sites like SnagFilms, more and more people have access to more and more non-fiction films than ever before.
So obviously it's a tough task to narrow down all these docs for a list of the best in the last ten years. In order to spotlight some particularly deserving films (25 of them), I've decided to follow the lead of William Goss' action flick list and break these up »
- Christopher Campbell
Review: Collapse
17 December 2009 6:58 AM, PST | Twitch | See recent Twitch news »
Documentary filmmaker Chris Smith and investigative reporter Michael Ruppert have a story to tell. The truth here is as far beyond inconvenient as a modern BMW is beyond the pony express. If there is ever a film that makes you want to bunker down with gallons of fresh water and a million cans of baked beans it is not The Day After, or even The Day After Tomorrow, it is Collapse.
Taking a more than a cue from Errol Morris and his Robert McNamara doc, The Fog Of War, Smith plants Ruppert in a chair and has him draw out the map of the world going to hell in a hand basket over the next decade, give or take a few years. His picture is not a pretty one. But it is compelling due to Ruppert's level-headed fanaticism on the subject (some might call it passion). Peak Oil, economic derivatives, »
Decade: Michael Moore on “Fahrenheit 9/11”
15 December 2009 2:11 PM, PST | indieWIRE - People | See recent indieWIRE - People news »
Editor’S Note: Every day for the next month, indieWIRE will be republishing profiles and interviews from the past ten years (in their original, retro format) with some of the people that have defined independent cinema in the first decade of this century. Today, we’ll step back to 2003 with an interview indieWIRE’s Eugene Hernandez had with Michael Moore upon the release of “Fahrenheit 9/11,” which would go on to become the … »
Decade: Michael Moore on “Fahrenheit 9/11”
15 December 2009 2:11 PM, PST | IndieWIRE | See recent indieWIRE news »
Editor’S Note: Every day for the next month, indieWIRE will be republishing profiles and interviews from the past ten years (in their original, retro format) with some of the people that have defined independent cinema in the first decade of this century. Today, we’ll step back to 2003 with an interview indieWIRE’s Eugene Hernandez had with Michael Moore upon the release of “Fahrenheit 9/11,” which would go on to become the … »
Decade: Michael Moore on “Fahrenheit 9/11”
15 December 2009 2:11 PM, PST | indieWIRE - People | See recent indieWIRE - People news »
Editor’S Note: Every day for the next month, indieWIRE will be republishing profiles and interviews from the past ten years (in their original, retro format) with some of the people that have defined independent cinema in the first decade of this century. Today, we’ll step back to 2004 with an interview indieWIRE’s Eugene Hernandez had with Michael Moore upon the release of “Fahrenheit 9/11,” which would go on to become the … »
Discuss: Should the Golden Globes Honor Documentaries?
15 December 2009 2:02 PM, PST | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »
The Golden Globe nominees are often looked at for hints as to what films might go on to the Academy Awards. But there's one major Oscar category that can't be predicted based on the picks of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association: Best Documentary Feature. There hasn't been a Golden Globe given for best documentary since 1977, and the category had only existed for five years.
Certainly non-fiction films aren't the most popular type, but if there was ever a time for the Hfpa to recognize their worth, it was in the past decade. Between Michael Moore and penguins, docs showed they can be moneymakers in the 2000s, and a large number of films broke out enough in the arthouse market to have warranted more attention from organizations celebrating cinema. »
- Christopher Campbell
Cenk Uygur Sets Out to Take Down Traditional Television
10 December 2009 6:00 AM, PST | Fast Company | See recent Fast Company news »
Upstarts From right, unconventional talk-show host Uygur with Ana Kasparian, Jayar Jackson, and Jesus Godoy | Photographs by Dave Lauridsen
Photographs by Dave Lauridsen
Cenk Uygur and his rebel band are out to take down traditional television, with a hand from YouTube, satellite radio, and 500,000 fans.
Television studios are airport-hangar-size buildings with green rooms, overflow trailers, and people with massive salaries bustling around. I'm sitting instead in a cramped office on Wilshire Boulevard, a mile from Beverly Hills, which has been converted into a makeshift studio for the Internet-based TV talk show The Young Turks. In the control room, three staffers in T-shirts and a perky producer, Ana Kasparian, 23, man eight computer screens and clutch boxes of various Willy Wonka candies. A wall-size window separates them from a modest newscast-esque set.
Just before 4 p.m., host Cenk Uygur, 39, arrives -- "early," he says, so we could talk -- not at all »
- Tina Dupuy
The Naughts: The Documentary of the '00s
7 December 2009 10:17 AM, PST | ifc.com | See recent IFC news »
Sometimes superlatives need to be slung, such as when speaking of the richest, most ambitious and exciting decade yet for nonfiction film -- and, really, what other variety could back up that boast? To nail down a single doc as the preeminent work that typifies these years is no easy task, especially since the best of the bunch attacked specific subjects with laser-like precision and idiosyncratic techniques. (Sit tight, the lede is about to be buried.)
The '00s legitimized the allure of the "pop doc," a trend that shoehorns potentially lackluster material into glossy narratives. Spelling bees were transformed into suspense thrillers ("Spellbound"), quadriplegic rugby players did their own stunts ("Murderball"), tangoing kids got their dance-off ("Mad Hot Ballroom"), a reckless but beautiful feat of derring-do was reenacted like a heist procedural ("Man on Wire"), and a PBS-style nature film became a blockbuster saga of familial survival ("March of the Penguins"). Who'd have thought, »
- Aaron Hillis
Review of the decade: Peter Bradshaw's noughties round-up
7 December 2009 3:01 AM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Hollywood struggled to respond to the war on terror, documentaries went through a golden age, and Michael Haneke was the noughties' moral conscience
If it is possible to whimper at the volume of a bang, then that is how this decade is ending on the big screen: with two high-profile, high-budget movies about the end of the world: Roland Emmerich's cheerfully silly 2012, and John Hillcoat's cheerlessly serious The Road, which arrive with a good deal of commentary to the effect that these movies typify the zeitgeist of the decade.
The noughties – that jokey word coined in the carefree 90s – are seen as damaged, injured, traumatised. The decade looks cracked from top to bottom by a sensational act of terrorism; by a reaction that achieved neither political palliative nor military success; by the confrontation between first-world prosperity and developing-world poverty; by the coming environmental catastrophe that threatens to engulf both; and finally, »
- Peter Bradshaw
"Anvil!" Wins @ Documentary Awards Show....
5 December 2009 10:05 AM, PST | SneakPeek | See recent SneakPeek news »
Director Sacha Gervasi's 2008 documentary feature focusing on the comedic antics of Canadian heavy metal rock band "Anvil", won the 'Distinguished Feature Award', December 4 at the International Documentary Association's annual awards show.
"Anvil!: The Story Of Anvil", from Australian producer Rebecca Yeldham, won over competing features "Food, Inc." and "Mugabe and the White African," both short-listed in the Oscar documentary feature category.
The Ida show was hosted by Ira Glass, host of the TV/radio series "This American Life." In his opening remarks he described a documentary filmmaker as a person who uses "...all the tools and tricks to get an audience to care about something it has no interest in at all."
Then he introduced clips of the best docs of 2009, including Michael Moore's "Capitalism: A Love Story", James Toback's "Tyson" and the 'mock doc' "Bruno".
"Anvil! The Story of Anvil", has been likened to a »
- Michael Stevens
'Anvil! The Story of Anvil' wins feature documentary award from Ida
4 December 2009 8:32 PM, PST | Zap2It - From Inside the Box | See recent Zap2It - From Inside the Box news »
"Anvil! The Story of Anvil" has won the top prize from the International Documentary Association.
The movie, which chronicles the ups and downs of eponymous Canadian heavy metal band, also won the music documentary award earlier this week, reports The Hollywood Reporter.
The rockumentary was excluded from even being considered for the Oscar for Best Documentary, largely regarded a snub of this fan favorite by the Academy.
In the feature documentary category, "Anvil" beat out Oscar-favorites "Food, Inc." and "Mugabe and the White African." "Anvil" stars Steve "Lips" Kudlow and Robb Reiner and features cameos by Slash of Guns n Roses and Lars Ulrich of Metallica.
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The Year of Apolitical Cinema?
3 December 2009 11:57 AM, PST | ifc.com | See recent IFC news »
In 1989, Spike Lee picked up a trashcan and hurled it into the front window of Sal's Pizzeria, stirring chaos in Bed-Stuy and sending movie audiences into a tizzy about race relations in America. That same year, Oliver Stone and Brian De Palma were reopening heated debates about Vietnam ("Born on the Fourth of July," "Casualties of War"), while Steven Soderbergh and Peter Greenaway were making us squirm by challenging conventional moral codes ("sex, lies and videotape," "The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover"). Jump ahead 20 years: today's watercooler cinema holds nary an ounce of subversive content. On the contrary, the most talked-about upscale American films of the year uphold such conservative myths as the sanctity of family and community.
Much has already been written about the reactionary elements of Lee Daniels' "Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire," which, despite its confrontational scenes of rape, »
- Anthony Kaufman
Gary Busey Named Hollywood's Unsexiest Man Alive
1 December 2009 12:05 AM, PST | icelebz.com | See recent iCelebz news »
Gary Busey has just nabbed the most unflattering title in Hollywood. The "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" star has been named the Unsexiest Man Alive in tinsel town.
Moviefone editors have compiled the list of actors who doesn't make women squeal with delight a la Johnny Depp, People magazine's Sexiest Man Alive of 2009.
Busey, 65, has topped the homeliest guys list because he is "outrageous" and has "gigantic teeth."
Also making the shame poll are Kevin Spacey, Paul Giamatti, the controversial Randy Quaid, and Michael Moore. Justin Long, the on-and-off PC guy boyfriend of Drew Barrymore, also made the list for being a "31-year-old man that looks like a 13-year-old boy."
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Michael Moore is a blowhard | Michael Tomasky
30 November 2009 11:28 AM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
I haven't really been a Michael Moore fan for a long time. TV Nation could be funny sometimes, like the time he challenged the CEOs of the Big Three auto companies to do an oil change. But I pretty strongly disliked Fahrenheit 9-11, for example. I thought, here was a real opportunity -- with such a massive and willing audience at his disposal -- to educate people about the roots of neoconservatism and how that whole thing worked in Washington. It was in there to some extent, but the movie was ruined by all that bosh about the Carlyle Group and the inscrutable power of the Saudis.
So it's no surprise to me that he publishes today this "open letter" to Obama full of fatuous gas about America, Afghanistan and empire:
So now you feel backed into a corner. 30 years ago this past Thursday (Thanksgiving) the Soviet generals had a »
- Michael Tomasky
Busey Named 'Unsexiest Star In Hollywood'
30 November 2009 11:11 AM, PST | WENN | See recent WENN news »
Movie veteran Gary Busey has been named and shamed as the unsexiest man in Hollywood in a new internet poll, edging out surprise contenders Justin Long, Kevin Spacey, Mickey Rourke and Joaquin Phoenix.
Editors at Moviefone.com compiled the list of Tinseltown's least desirable leading men, following People magazine's recent decision to name Johnny Depp Hollywood's top hunk.
Busey tops the unsexy list, "because he's outrageous and he has gigantic teeth".
Long, Drew Barrymore's on/off beau, came in third, because Moviefone editors decided "he is a 31-year-old man that (sic) looks like a 13-year-old boy."
"Ageing rock star" Rourke finished eighth ahead of Joaquin Phoenix, whose unkempt beard won him ninth place.
Moviefone's top 10 unsexy actors are as follows:
1. Gary Busey
2. Kevin Spacey
3. Justin Long
6. Randy Quaid
10. John C. Reilly. »
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30 November 2009 6:00 AM, PST | Slash Film | See recent Slash Film news »
Page 2 is a compilation of stories and news tidbits, which for whatever reason, didn’t make the front page of /Film. After the jump we’ve included 30 different items, fun images, videos, casting tidbits, articles of interest and more. It’s like a mystery grab bag of movie web related goodness. Mini-lol: This Twilight Moms photo showed up on Reddit. I apologize in advance for the large amount of Twilight-related items in this edition of Page 2. Ivan Vidovic redesigned posters for Martin Scorsese films. Rejects teaches you how to fall off the grid, based on the lessons from movies. Mike Peter’s Mother Goose and Grimm from Wednesday November 25th takes on edited for television movies. [brew] Here is a For Your Consideration ad from Summit Entertainment for Hurt Locker. [awardsdaily] And here is an ad for Michael Moore's Capitalism: A Love Story for "Best Picture". This week marks the 25th »
- Peter Sciretta
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