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Wrestler, Wendy and Lucy among AFI’s Top 10 of 2008
Another best off list that is mildly amusing to look at is the annual American Film Institute's AFI list of the 10 Most Outstanding Motion Pictures and TV Programs of the Year. Indiewood and comic book movies shared the same space among year-end kudos: The jury drank the kool-aid and added Dark Knight and Iron Man alongside the likes of Frozen River, Wendy and Lucy and The Wrestler. My only question: where's Ballast?
Moodysson, Kaige, Potter, Angelopoulos and Rebecca Miller set for Berlin Film Fest
A little bit of fluff (Harald Zwart’s Pink Panther II), an Oscar hopeful (Stephen Daldry’s The Reader) and some prestige titles from master filmmakers who might have lost their touch and offerings from less-seasoned directors are among the world preems that have been announced in the Berlin Film Festival’s Competition and Out of Competition section).
Andres Baiz leads Giamatti and Mackie to Babylon
Here is another story of how an actor can board a project from a first or second-time filmmaker and give the project wings. Paul Giamatti (and Anthony Mackie) have joined Andres Baiz on the project set to begin filming in February in the hot sands of Jamaica.
Screen Media Films sets JFK ‘Affair’ for February
Screen Media Films has acquired director William Sten Olsson’s An American Affair, which peaks through the windows (Hallam Foe-style) to describe how one person’s understanding of the president might be skewed.
Stiller to use Other Acting Skills for Baumbach’s Greenburg
In comes a film that borrows from both genres, Baumbach’s Greenburg (a Scott Rudin product) is being kept under the lid but will probably have the same tonality as his dramedies in Margot at the Wedding and The Squid and the Whale.
