Conversation flows from Boyle like pure energy. It is often impossible to tell if he has answered the question at hand or 20 other questions yet to be asked.
Several directors deliver their highly anticipated next films at this year’s AFI FEST, including Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck, Rian Johnson, Michel Gondry, Leos Carax and more!
Robert De Niro, who stars in AFI FEST’s World Premiere of EVERYBODY’S FINE on Tuesday, was named this year’s recipient of BAFTA/L.A.’s Stanley Kubrick Award. Read more … […]
GUY AND MADELINE ON A PARK BENCH has been nominated for the Gotham Independent Film Awards in the Best Film Not Playing At A Theater Near You category. […]
Michael Haneke’s THE WHITE RIBBON won the Screen International Hollywood World Award last night at the Hollywood Awards gala in Los Angeles. Haneke’s Palme d’Or winner beat off a selection including Jacques Audiard’s A PROPHET, Jane Campion’s BRIGHT STAR, Jessica Hausner’s Lourdes and Luca Guadagnino’s I AM LOVE. Read more … […]
Hope springs eternal in the independent film business, as new foreign sales companies get up and running in the middle of some of the worst market conditions around. So far, much of the expected consolidation of the sector looks more like a fragmentation. Long-established names such as Capitol, Odyssey and Intermedia are gone, but their former executives hav […]
Helmer Terry Gilliam’s THE IMAGINARIUM OF DOCTOR PARNASSUS has struck box office gold in Italy. The fantasy, featuring Heath Ledger’s final screen perf and also toplining Johnny Depp, Jude Law and Colin Farrell, has earned $2.7 million in its first weekend — its biggest opening in any territory so far — and scored the country’s third-highest per-sc […]