The globe-trotting section of this year's Contemporary World Cinema programme has your Sundance (in a pair of excellent titles in Ava DuVernay's Middle of...
Despite news that Mark Cuban has put Magnolia Pictures up for sale, it seems everything is business as usual at the independent distribution company. They announced yesterday that they have picked up David Gelb's hunger inducing Jiro Dreams of Sushi, which will make its North American debut next week at the Tribeca Film Fest. It premiered at Berlinale earlier this year in the Culinary Cinema section.
[Ed's note: Vanity Fair. I buy the Hollywood issue every year and I love the magazine for the articles (that sounds like the excuse I had when my mom caught me with Playboy). Below you'll find more than a baker's dozen of folks who ate shrimp cocktails and collected souvenirs for their hard working publicists. Enjoy!]
Another day, another major announcement by the Tribeca Film Festival (TFF). The
selection of a few non-competitive sections has been announced. The 60 films...
The thrill of meeting Marjane Satrapi reminded me of being 6 years old at Disney Land when I met the living, breathing Cinderella. Except Cinderella was an actress with a blond wig and Marjane is the real woman behind her autobiographical graphic novel, turned movie, “Persepolis”. The distinctive mole on her nose and her dark sultry eyes rose off the page and appeared in front of me, smoking and speaking with a French accent.