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City of Men: Poster One Sheet
When Cidade De Deus burst onto the world cinema scene it propelled Fernando Meirelles into filmmaking stardom (he has since worked on The...
17th Gotham Award winners: a ‘Wild’ night indeed
It was a night of multiple winners instead of winners with multiple wins at the 17th annual Gotham awards - where the IFP recognize...
2007 Indie Spirit Nominations: commentary & predictions!
Dysfunctional loving families undergoing reality checks, a paralyzed man checking out and a checklist of Dylan figures are the film narratives that have collected the most noms for the 2008 Film Independent Spirit Awards. Sparkling Fox Searchlight titles of Tamara Jenkins’s The Savages and Jason Reitman’s Juno each grab a significant amount of noms, but it is Todd Haynes’ I’m not There and Julian Schnabel’s The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Learning to let go: book authors see their creations morph into different beasts
From New Yorkers riding the subways, to L.A sun bathers looking for an escape to Oprahoholics looking for their monthly fix, the book/novel/novella is definitely not dead: especially when it gets a second life on film. After hardcover, soft cover and then rebate bins – only a lucky few authors get the additional highs (and sometimes lows) of actually seeing their characters and storyline transferred onto the silver screen.
Hafstrom and Cusack together again in Weinstein’s ‘Shanghai’
It's fair to state that Scandinavian helmer made the most from his "second chance". While Derailed critically underperformed, his second project for The Weinstein...
