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Review: POM Wonderful Presents: The Greatest Movie Ever Sold
In the end, though, the only brand that Spurlock's film finally condemns is his own. The man is a money-making machine without the backbone to risk putting his name, and face, on a genuinely radical or incendiary idea. For these reasons, POM Wonderful is counter-productive.
POM Wonderful Presents: The Greatest Movie Ever Sold | Review
Spurlock Continues His Trend of Supersizing Himself Instead of Exploring His Topic of Choice
Cannes Welcomes Guest Country Egypt, Adds Prodigies and Free Men as School Screenings For the Kiddies
Cannes is starting up its own like-minded section this year, albeit smaller, simply calling their selected country a "Guest Country". They've picked Egypt to jumpstart this to-be annual feature.
Toronto Gets Documentary Fever as Hot Docs Kicks off its 19 Edition
Torontonians love their film festivals. In September, they love star-gazing, and voting on the movies that are most likely to - and usually do - go on to win Oscar gold. They love waiting in line in the sun all day for tickets, and standing in rush lines, and charting their 5-films-a-day schedules on carefully calculated spreadsheets. And in May, they love watching documentaries: docs that you've never heard of and will never hear from again; docs that played and won awards in Sundance and South by Southwest; docs about obscure Canadian things like curling, Alan Zweig, and longboarding on the highway. The city arguably gets more up-in-arms about Hot Docs than they do about TIFF, opting for the more quaint venues that aren't bombarded by outsiders and celebrities.
Cannes 2011: Bonello’s ‘L’Apollonide’ Asks For Tolerance in Main Competition
There is no ambiguity with Bertrand Bonello's newest film House of Tolerance (L'Apollonide - souvenirs de la maison close), though, as the film was shot near Paris, and Bonello himself was actually born in Nice, a spitting distance from Cannes' shore.
