Both the jury and audience awards have been handed out for the 2009 Indpendent Film Festival of Boston. The winners are as follows: Narrative Feature: Grand Jury Prize Winner: CHILDREN OF INVENTION directed by Tze Chun Special Jury Prize Winner: BEESWAX directed by Andrew Bujalski Audience Award Winner: STILL WALKING directed by Hirokazu Kore-eda Documentary …
This story is brief, but interesting. In an interview with MTV News, director Robert Zemeckis said that he’s a fan of motion capture, and that he’s considering doing a second Roger Rabbit movie. And that’s it. Zemeckis didn’t say anything else. While I liked the original movie growing up, I don’t know if going 3D …
Variety is reporting that Oliver Stone and Shia LaBeouf has signed on to join Michael Douglas in “Wall Street 2.” The script was originally witten a couple of years ago by Stephen Schiff, but things didn’t work out. Alan Loeb has done a re-write on the script and now things look like they’re moving forward. …
The 7th Annual Independent Film Festival of Boston has come to a close last night at the Coolidge Theater, screening ‘World’s Greatest Dad,’ directed by Bobcat Goldthwait. This years festival was an overwhelming success. Boston had one of the best weekends weather wise so far this year, but that didn’t stop the lines at the …
Dark comedy is something incredibly difficult to pull off. I always think that it’s many the movie that, only after looking at it and deciding that it’s just completely offensive, the filmmakers decide to tell everyone that they planned it that way all along and that it’s a dark comedy. “World’s Greatest Dad,” written and …
IFFBoston has released the winners of the 2009 Jury Awards: Narrative: Grand Jury Prize: CHILDREN OF INVENTION Special Jury Prize: BEESWAX Documentary: Grand Jury Prize: CRUDE Special Jury Prize: UNMISTAKEN CHILD Honorable Mention: THE WAY WE GET BY Short Film: Grand Jury Prize: INSTEAD OF ABRACADABRA Special Jury Prize: I AM SO PROUD OF YOU …
I wanted to post an interesting video I found while surfing around. This clip comes from a group called “Playing for Change,” on its posted page, the author says this is the first of many “songs around the world” being released independently. The song covered is the classic “Stand By Me” by musicians around the …
“The best way to respond to bad advertising is to make good advertising.” That’s how director Doug Pray introduced his most recent movie, “Art & Copy” at the IFFB. The movie is a study of the history of advertising over the last 50 years, starting in the 1960s and moving into today.
‘Birdwatchers’ tells the story of a group of natives called the Guarani-Kaiowà from Brazil who decide they no longer want to live on the reservation, and want to take back the land that is rightfully theirs.
As long as there have been movies, there have been critics. Those well versed in the language and art of cinema, explaining to even the most novice reader or viewer why they’ll like one movie over the other. Gerald Perry’s film, “For the Love of Movies,” follows American criticism from the birth of sound, to …