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Trailer: Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s Micmacs à tire-larigot
Why Warner Bros. is mum on release date details for Jean Pierre Jeunet's Micmacs à tire-larigot is a mystery to me.
Here Films Relaunches with Cannes winner ‘I Killed My Mother’
The derby for which distributor was going to get the rights to triple award winning title from Cannes (I Killed My Mother) has come to a close and in the same measure, Here Media announced the launch of Here Films - thus putting an end to the confusing co-label of Here! and Regent Releasing. For those who haven't noticed, Here has been slowly doing away with the strictly GL&T label and encompassing a more 'festival fave' orientated direction – just recently they released Best Foreign Language Film winner Departures and Cannes UCR Jury prize winner Tokyo Sonata.
Orange of the Week: Iranian Filmmakers
As recently documented in Burma VJ, the Burmese revolution and fight against repression was fought with something more powerful than sticks and stones. The same pocket-sized video cameras that the brave people of Iran are currently using to document the aftermath of an election with gross irregularities and the gross misconduct of the current government. It's with that same camera in hand spirit that we would like give praise to Iranian New Wave and current generation of filmmakers
Lemon of the Week: Yearly Release of Nightmare Before Christmas
While I enjoy 10th, silver year, 40th, 50th anniversary editions and beyond this of classic films, I'm handing the Lemon of the Week to Disney for going a bit overboard with the decision to re-release the film in 2006, 2007, 2008 and now once again this year.
Weekly Eye Candy: David Fincher’s ‘Nike Fate’ Commercial
What does a top Hollywood filmmaker do between shoots? He picks up an extra paycheck from working on commercial work from Nike. The week-long Cannes Lions honors the best in advertising work, today is reserved for television commercial work (Film Awards) and out of the batch of short list nominees we find this week's eye candy and Silver award winning: David Fincher's Fate.
