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IFC Films is the first and only film studio to embrace the day and date concept , acquiring and distributing over 24 films a year, released simultaneously theaterically and on video-on-demand. Currently each film reaches an audience of over 40 million via the on-demand platform, including Cablevision and Comcast subscribers.
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Odds: "Porno" gets the R, ThinkFilm doesn't need your damn bills.
2008-08-05 20:00:01
Kevin Smith gets "Zack and Miri Make a Porno," first rated NC-17, down to a more marketable R. As if there was ever any doubt. [Via the AP] ThinkFilm is so indie…
Elvis Mitchell's life is more interesting than yours.
2008-08-05 20:00:01
From the Detroit Free Press: Nationally known film critic Elvis Mitchell is trying to get back nearly $12,000 he carried in a cigar box through the Detroit-Windsor…
"I thought, eh, I'll be dead in three years."
2008-08-05 20:00:01
The world in quotes: "This was like three years ago. And I thought, eh, I'll be dead in three years. So I said OK. And then I didn't die." --Woody…
In the works: Eric Bana and Mark Ruffalo ready to direct, as is the "I'm Fucking Matt Damon" guy.
2008-08-05 20:00:01
In the works: Eric Bana, the Aussie comedian turned sad-eyed leading man, will make his directorial debut with "Love the Beast," in which he's also starring as...…
Madonna on festivals, Bordwell on cinephile signaling.
2008-08-04 20:00:02
Over the weekend, Madonna brought her documentary on Malawian orphans, "I Am Because We Are," to Michael Moore's Traverse City Film Festival. While there, the pop…
Critic wrangle: "In Search of a Midnight Kiss."
2008-08-01 20:00:01
It's been over a year since Alex Holdridge's "In Search of a Midnight Kiss" premiered at Tribeca 2007, in which time his "misanthrope seeks misanthrope" blind date…
Critic wrangle: "Frozen River."
2008-08-01 20:00:01
I really didn't care for Courtney Hunt's feature debut "Frozen River" when I caught it at Sundance, but others did, to the point where it won the Grand Jury Prize,…
Dan Rather chooses "The Candidate."
2008-07-31 20:00:01
Film in Focus has been gathering lists of five favorite films about political campaigns or, in some cases, just politics or politicians, from an array of political…
Trailering: Bootleg "Che," "What Just Happened."
2008-07-31 20:00:01
For those of you dying for even the slightest glimpse of Steven Soderbergh's "Che," JoBlo.com has surfaced a bootleg, flickery, unsubtitled Spanish-language trailer…
"That's like saying Americans are gangsters because they like Michael Corleone in The Godfather."
2008-07-31 20:00:01
Quotes from the interview circuit: "That's basically ridiculous. That's like saying Americans are gangsters because they like Michael Corleone in The Godfather.…
"Being a vampire is definitely not this homoerotic..."
2008-07-31 20:00:01
Because it's a draggy day today, here's Morgan Spurlock sending up his own "30 Days" series and persona ("The whole community appreciates you just exploding the…
In the works: Murakami's "Norwegian Wood"?
2008-07-31 20:00:01
In the works: A great bit of news from indirectly, Screen Daily: French-Vietnamese director Tran Anh Hung, of the acclaimed "Vertical Ray of the Sun" and "The Scent…
Odds: Untouchable Paris, leaves, Woody Allen's "blackish comedy."
2008-07-30 20:00:01
Taking photos with Paris Hilton, who was at Comic-Con promoting "Repo: The Genetic Opera," two MTV News staffers found they displayed an identical and apparently…
Explaining yourself.
2008-07-30 20:00:01
At Ain't It Cool, "Mr. Beaks" corners director Frank Darabont for a discussion of "The Mist"'s, er, family unfriendly ending. Yes, there are spoilers. I've had…
It's beginning to look like August.
2008-07-30 20:00:01
"[D]id I mention the Abominable Snowmen, who help Rick, Evelyn and Alex combat Li's revived baddie and, after kicking one of the emperor's many minions over a Himalayan…
Huluing "Hoop Dreams."
2008-07-30 20:00:01
"Hoop Dreams," Steve James' mighty, influential 1994 documentary following two inner-city Chicago teenagers over five years in frantic pursuit of the dream of becoming…
Mike Mills votes "no" on "The Dark Knight."
2008-07-30 20:00:01
Everyone's got an opinion on Batman. From Aaron Hillis' interview with director/artist Mike Mills, who's featured in the documentary "Beautiful Losers," opening…
Odds: Von Trier's "Antichrist," the Coens' collaborator.
2008-07-29 20:00:01
Lars von Trier's English-language horror flick "Antichrist" is a go, reports Variety -- funding's in place and casting will be announced soon. The film's apparently…
Duality, Dubya, "The Dark Knight" (again).
2008-07-29 20:00:01
According to /Film, IMDb was hacked last night, leaving "The Dark Knight" briefly but oh so metaphorically displayed as both the #1 best and worst film of all time.…
Ingloriously yours, possibly even by Cannes 2009.
2008-07-29 20:00:01
"Universal Lands Tarantino's 'Inglorious Bastards' Despite Hatred Of Harvey" headlines Nikke Finke at Deadline Hollywood Daily. And that's all she's got as I'm…
Venice 2008 lines up.
2008-07-29 20:00:01
The 65th Venice Film Festival announced its line-up today -- among the juicy offerings are the new Darren Aronofsky film "The Wrestler," with Mickey Rourke playing…
Odds: "I broke the code Tarantino invented."
2008-07-28 20:00:01
To watch -- "Tarantino's Mind," a short from Brazilian directing duo 300ml in which a man (Selton Mello) explains his unified field theory of Quentin Tarantino…
Youssef Chahine, 1926-2008.
2008-07-28 20:00:01
After suffering a brain hemorrhage several weeks ago, Egyptian filmmaker Youssef Chahine passed away on Sunday at the age of 82. A.O. Scott at the New York Times:…
Trailering: "W."'s wonderful world.
2008-07-28 20:00:01
Dailymotion YouTube has a teaser trailer for Oliver Stone's "W." here. I... have no words. Other than that I find myself suddenly and unexpectedly looking forward…
Odds: Harvey and the nuns, Dakota Fanning and the swearing.
2008-07-24 21:00:01
Harvey Weinstein at Portfolio (h/t to Movie City News): I remember my first Broadway show. It was The Sound of Music with Mary Martin. The minute the nuns came…
"Nobody's seen your film but say they have heard about it and that they probably will watch it on Sunday. Maybe."
2008-07-24 21:00:01
Once again, the world in quotes: "The world of film festivals can really be a gamble - In worst case you arrive after ten hours in different means of conveyance…
Trailering: "Somers Town," "The Brothers Bloom."
2008-07-24 18:00:10
There's a trailer up for Shane Meadows' sublimely small-scale "Somers Town" here. Here's my review of the film from Tribeca -- for my money, it's even better than…
In the works: "Cocaine Cowboys" the feature, "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" the remake.
2008-07-24 18:00:10
In the works: Journalist and screenwriter Evan Wright, best known for penning the book on which "Generation Kill" is based, has been hired to write the screenplay…
Caped crusaders can't fail.
2008-07-24 18:00:10
"The Dark Knight" backlash fray has reached the New York Times, where A.O. Scott muses "Is it just me, or is the strain starting to show?" For Scott, "Iron Man,"…
Red Envelope is sealed.
2008-07-23 19:00:01
Red Envelope Entertainment, Netflix's acquisition and distribution arm, is no more. Reports Anthony Kaufman at indieWIRE: In its short life, Red Envelope acquired…
Stardom, by the numbers.
2008-07-23 19:00:01
"In an era where risk-averse studio executives have declared men the more reliable movie stars--and the more desirable moviegoers--perhaps it's no surprise that…
"It's not finished... It's finished."
2008-07-22 19:00:11
"Spaced," the grandly geeky British sitcom about two North London roommates and their friends that Simon Pegg, Edgar Wright and Nick Frost created before moving…
Fresh film faces.
2008-07-22 19:00:11
Filmmaker Magazine has just released its annual round-up of indie film up-and-comers, "25 New Faces in Independent Film." Quite a few of them are familiar -- congrats…
Mankiewicz and Lyons at the movies.
2008-07-22 19:00:11
Well, if there's ever been a sign of the general decline in estimation of film critics, it's that the new hosts of ABC's review show "At the Movies," from which…
Odds: Download "Dementia 13," the fantastic Mr. Cocker, the Germs.
2008-07-21 22:00:01
Mark Frauenfelder at Boing Boing points out that the 1963 Francis Ford Coppola/Roger Corman slasher film "Dementia 13" is in the public domain and available for…
Ebert cuts the ties.
2008-07-21 19:00:00
In a statement released today, Roger Ebert announced: "After 33 years on the air, 23 of them with Disney, the studio has decided to take the program named 'Siskel…
Dark Knight, redux.
2008-07-21 19:00:00
I'm still haven't seen "The Dark Knight," which recent reporting indicates made approximately $7.3 jillion this past weekend, but I almost don't feel the need to…
"The Class" opens New York.
2008-07-15 19:00:00
This year's New York Film Festival will open with the North American premiere of Laurent Cantet's "The Class" (Entre les murs), or so my inbox tells me. "The Class,"…
Critic wrangle: "Full Battle Rattle."
2008-07-11 18:00:11
No critic would argue that Tony Gerber and Jesse Moss haven't found themselves a fascinating subject in their doc "Full Battle Rattle," which opened Wednesday and…
Critic wrangle: "The Exiles."
2008-07-11 18:00:11
"The Exiles," Kent MacKenzie's 1961 black and white film about a Native American couple living in a now-demolished Los Angeles neighborhood, has been restored and…
Odds: Alex Gibney on torture, Stephen King on - hey! - horror.
2008-07-10 21:00:01
Alex Gibney, whose Hunter S. Thompson doc "Gonzo" opened last week, writes about his last film, "Taxi to the Dark Side," at the Guardian Film Blog: "If you torture…
David Gordon Green, the early days.
2008-07-10 21:00:01
New York's Vulture blog has an early short from David Gordon Green in honor of BAM's upcoming retrospective -- you can watch "Physical Pinball" (2001) online here.…
Bollywood -- so hot right now.
2008-07-10 18:00:52
Not so long ago, taking roles in mainstream films overseas was pretty much the domain of faded stars who needed some cash and figured the flicks were likely never…
"The Dark Knight" is De Palma plus Coppola plus Kubrick plus Cronenberg?
2008-07-10 18:00:52
"No matter how good 'The Dark Knight' is," writes Steven Zeitchik at the Hollywood Reporter's Risky Business blog, "how mindblowingly, dazzlingly, pulsatingly,…
But what will become of "Princess"?
2008-07-09 21:00:01
Palisades Media, which Variety describes as a "Gotham-based securitization and P&A financing specialist," has picked up most of the UK Tartan Films library, having…
Trailering: "Thunder" goes meta.
2008-07-09 18:00:05
Meta-marketing: "Rain of Madness" is a purported documentary about the disastrous making of the movie they try to shoot in the upcoming comedy "Tropic Thunder"...…
Tilda Swinton founds strangest film festival ever.
2008-07-08 18:02:12
Tilda Swinton is starting a small festival in her hometown of Nairn in north-east Scotland. She's passed up what I feel is a key opportunity to capitalize on her…
An Inglorious day.
2008-07-08 18:02:12
"Inglorious Bastards" is Quentin Tarantino's "Chinese Democracy," the World War II epic he's been working on forever, dropping mentions of it in interviews dating…
Kinky! Strange!
2008-07-08 18:02:12
"Kinky Boots," Julian Jarrold's comedy about how a sassy but soft-hearted (sigh) drag queen, played by Chiwetel Ejiofor, saves a struggling, stodgy shoe company…
Elvis Mitchell, Pauline Kael and Kenneth Turan.
2008-07-08 18:02:12
Elvis Mitchell, former New York Times film critic, Harvard lecturer, documentary writer/producer and consistently excellent dresser, has a new show on TCM called…
Old news: "Metropolis" found, Weinstein trash, "Ballast" solo.
2008-07-07 18:00:27
Bits and pieces from over the long weekend: A 16mm copy of Fritz Lang's "Metropolis" retrieved from Buenos Aires contains missing scenes long thought lost. David…
"It was huge in Russia."
2008-07-02 21:00:16
The world in quotes: "I definitely reached a point in my career where I felt confused about where I was going and felt somewhat stuck in rut. So I took a break,…
Holmes, how you've changed!
2008-07-02 21:00:16
Late yesterday it was announced that Sacha Baron Cohen has been cast as Sherlock Holmes with Will Ferrell as Watson in a new, Judd Apatow-produced comedy inspired…
Sounding the depths of "Hancock."
2008-07-02 18:00:17
Sorry for the radio silence — vacation, then the always more challenging vacation recovery. I know I'm not the only one to have mentally written off "Hancock"…
Trailering: Benjamin Button, Neil Young.
2008-06-19 17:00:01
I don't think the otherwise gloriously shiny teaser trailer for David Fincher's "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" needs such twinkly Tim Burton music, and Brad…
Opening nights.
2008-06-18 17:00:02
Yesterday, the Toronto International Film Festival announced that its opening night film will be "Passchendaele," a $20 million World War I epic from actor/director…
Exile on 15th Street, N.W.
2008-06-18 17:00:02
At the New York Sun, S. James Snyder writes about both the ever-discussed endangerment of the print critic and last week's gathering/reading of selections from…
Cyd Charisse, 1922-2008.
2008-06-17 23:00:01
Cyd Charisse, the impossibly long-limbed actress and dancer (born Tula Ellice Finklea) who starred alongside Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly in classic musicals like…
Famous families.
2008-06-17 23:00:01
"The Edge of Love," director John Maybury's biopic about the amours of Welsh poet Dylan Thomas (played by Matthew Rhys), is having its premiere at the Edinburgh…
Odds: "Red Tails," over-restoration, the greatest Western of all time.
2008-06-17 20:00:02
George Lucas "plans for [new movie 'Red Tails'] to be based on the historic record that brought the Tuskegee Airmen fame, drawn from their own accounts." Let's…
"Nowadays they call them sound bites."
2008-06-17 20:00:02
A look at who's been saying what in interviews lately: "There are maybe seven women who make up Caroline. But these 'Did it really happen?' questions really don't…
Trailering: Johnnie To, "Death Race" and Mr. Lee.
2008-06-16 17:00:02
New on the trailer circuit: Johnnie To's been a busy man — after premiering "Mad Detective," a thriller about a brilliant but insane investigator trying to…
Critic wrangle: "My Winnipeg."
2008-06-13 17:00:02
Guy Maddin's "docu-fantasia" "My Winnipeg," about a town almost, but not quite, entirely unlike the Manitoban urban center in which he grew up, opens in theaters…
Critic wrangle: "Chris & Don. A Love Story."
2008-06-13 17:00:02
"Chris & Don. A Love Story" is a documentary about the longterm romance between artist Don Bachardy and "Berlin Stories" writer Christopher Isherwood — the…
Roman Polanski: Wanted and Inappropriately Handled.
2008-06-11 20:00:02
HBO was forced to change the ending of Marina Zenovich's acclaimed documentary "Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired" shortly before its TV premiere on Monday, after…
Two Joans.
2008-06-11 20:00:02
Looking at a 1930 photograph of Joan Crawford by George Hurrell, the Independent's Hannah Duguid describes it as "the stuff of fantasy...simply a close-up of her…
Versus: Spike Lee and Clint Eastwood, Werner Herzog and Abel Ferrara.
2008-06-10 17:00:02
In the left corner, you have the highly quotable, controversy-courting filmmaker Shelton Jackson "Spike" Lee. In the right, the generally taciturn but sometimes…
"Brokeback Mountain" becoming an opera.
2008-06-09 20:00:01
From BBC News: Brokeback Mountain, the story by Annie Proulx that became the basis for an Oscar-winning film, is to be made into an opera. The New York City Opera…
Trailering: Falco, Philip Roth, Bill Maher.
2008-06-09 20:00:01
Es war um 1780, und es war in Wien: I understand not a word of it, but I'm totally entranced by this trailer for Thomas Roth's Falco biopic "Falco - Verdammt, wir…
Odds: "Donnie Darko" Sequel Star Threatens to Retroactively Ruin the First Film
2008-06-05 20:00:00
Larry Carroll at MTV talks with Briana Evigan, one of the stars of non Richard Kelly-approved "Donnie Darko" sequel "S. Darko": "Calling the script 'very twisted,'…
Trendspotting: Brownface, bags, polibiopics.
2008-06-05 20:00:00
I remain on the lookout for an overview trend as convenient and analysis-friendly as last year's Summer of Threequels, but so far, not so much. Will "the season…
Rooftop shorts on the web.
2008-06-05 17:00:02
Shorts from the Rooftop Films Series are back for the summer at IFC.com — there'll be three new films online each week here, but you can also find them through…
Moving images, online articles.
2008-06-05 17:00:02
Moving Image Source, "a major new website devoted to the history of film, television" that's an offshoot of the Museum of the Moving Image and headed up by Editor-in-Chief…
Odds: Doc to power, sexist Lane, nuking the fridge.
2008-06-04 20:00:02
The most interesting article amongst the ones from the new issue of Cineaste now up online is actually from the editors. The editorial, which I appreciate for its…
Re-imagine, re-invent, recycle.
2008-06-04 17:00:02
"It's a re-imagining of the original DEATH RACE. It's not a straight remake. It keeps a lot of the original concepts in tact. The masked racer called Frankenstein,…
Critic wrangle: "Operation Filmmaker."
2008-06-04 17:00:02
Liev Schreiber, prepping for his directorial debut "Everything is Illuminated" in 2004, was captivated by a segment of MTV's "True Life: I'm Living in Iraq" featuring…
Odds: In the roles of young George Lucas and Cock Puncher...
2008-06-03 20:00:01
"The Go-Getter," which opens this week and which will likely only register as the movie which lead to Zooey Deschanel's musical career, was directed by Martin Hynes,…
A tale of two biopics.
2008-06-03 20:00:01
Over the weekend, the LA Times' Patrick Goldstein reported on how the non-Gus Van Sant film about Harvey Milk, "The Mayor of Castro Street," is pretty much dead…
Watching "The Women."
2008-06-03 17:00:01
After a certain film I'd prefer to leave unnamed — let's call it, oh, "Intercourse and the Municipality" — managed an unexpectedly massive opening weekend…
Odds: "Expelled" trumps Ono and Godard drops out.
2008-06-02 20:00:02
Yoko Ono has lost her bid to have use of John Lennon's "Imagine" removed from the problematic Ben Stein anti-Darwinist doc "Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed,"…
"Why don't you guys just start remaking your hits?"
2008-06-02 20:00:02
The world in quotes: "They have to make Bourne Identity before they make Bourne Ultimatum. They don't really want to make Bourne Identity because it's a trial thing.…
Trailering: Gibney's "Gonzo," giallo gore, "God's Puzzle."
2008-06-02 17:00:05
Forgive the week-long silence, I was catching up on a non-bloggish backlog, post-festival. Here's a gander at what's new, trailerwise: "Gonzo: The Life and Work…
Cannes 08: "Wendy and Lucy."
2008-05-24 17:00:00
I've seen films about genocide at this year's festival, I've seen films about corruption, about terrible crimes, about war and about murder, but nothing cut me…
Cannes 08: "Che."
2008-05-23 11:00:01
The noxious thing to say would be that when Steven Soderbergh's "Che" is whittled down and divided up into two solid-sized features for realistic theatrical consumption,…
Cannes 08: "Changeling."
2008-05-21 14:00:14
A cloche-wearing madonna, Angelina Jolie is the porcelain personification of trembling courage and devoted motherhood in "Changeling." As Christine Collins, entire…
Cannes 08: "The Chaser."
2008-05-19 11:00:10
A few ways to cut in line at Cannes: Get there late and drift in with the crowd at the front, looking lost or bewildered. Pretend to only be walking over to get…
Cannes 08: "Vicky Cristina Barcelona."
2008-05-17 20:00:01
Here's a sentence I wasn't expecting to write: Woody Allen's "Vicky Cristina Barcelona" is... fun. It's not sexy, despite all the buzz about the Scarlett Johansson/Javier…
Cannes 08: "Tokyo!"
2008-05-17 09:00:01
"Tokyo!" is made up of three unrelated shorts directed by Michel Gondry, Leos Carax and Bong Joon-ho, all set, yes, in Tokyo. Stop, you're shrieking, how much hipness…
Cannes 08: "Waltz with Bashir."
2008-05-16 12:00:02
Following up Fernando Meirelles' dystopic "Blindness" with the animated Israeli documentary "Waltz with Bashir" made for an exceedingly dour day here at Cannes.…
Cannes Cam, class of 08.
2008-05-14 12:00:03
The third annual IFC Cannes Cam, streaming live, 24/7, for the duration of the festival, is going live in a minute or two. You can find it here; at 6:40pm local,…
Side note: The problem of Susan.
2008-05-10 12:00:01
In a piece on the premiere of "The Chronicles Of Narnia: Prince Caspian," MTV News offers this tidbit: [M]uch of the prerelease chatter about "Prince Caspian" has…
Critic wrangle: "The Fall."
2008-05-10 12:00:01
A labor of love from Tarsem Singh (who often prefers to go by just "Tarsem"), the musical video director who made his feature debut with 2000's "The Cell," "The…
Critic wrangle: "Battle for Haditha."
2008-05-10 12:00:01
Documentarian provocateur Nick Broomfield, of "Biggie and Tupac" and "Kurt & Courtney," goes semi-scripted in "Battle for Haditha," which portrays a real and ugly…
Odds: "Oh yes, Lucas would really dare to put something like that in!"
2008-05-09 12:00:07
Kevin Maher at the London Times tries to interview John Hurt, who's been forbidden by the studios to discuss his role in "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal…
"Speed Racer": May cause bodily harm?
2008-05-09 12:00:07
"Imagine someone pouring hot, melted Starburst candies into your corneas, and you just begin to approximate the experience of 'Speed Racer.'" —Alonso…
Odds: "London Fields," shock art, cookiegate.
2008-05-09 12:00:07
Martin Amis' novel "London Fields" looks to be back on track to become a film after all, according to the Guardian: "Amis himself is collaborating on the adaptation…
Odds: "Oh yes, Lucas would really dare to put something like that in!"
2008-05-09 06:34:00
Kevin Maher at the London Times tries to interview John Hurt, who's been forbidden by the studios to discuss his role in "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of…
Picturehouse goes dark, and so does Warner Independent.
2008-05-09 06:34:00
New Line for the win (I guess). From the Hollywood Reporter: In a surprising move, Warner Bros. has decided to shutter both Picturehouse and Warner Independent…
"Speed Racer": May cause bodily harm?
2008-05-09 06:34:00
"Imagine someone pouring hot, melted Starburst candies into your corneas, and you just begin to approximate the experience of 'Speed Racer.'" —Alonso…
Good news, bad news.
2008-05-09 06:34:00
The good and the very bad news this morning: On the plus side, Criterion has announced that it's going Blu-ray, with "Chungking Express," "The 400…
Odds: "London Fields," shock art, cookiegate.
2008-05-09 06:34:00
Martin Amis' novel "London Fields" looks to be back on track to become a film after all, according to the Guardian: "Amis himself is collaborating…
Sundance Channel acquired by Cablevision.
2008-05-07 11:42:07
Fresh off the wires — Rainbow Media, the company that owns IFC as well as AMC and WE, has purchased the Sundance Channel. Here's the press release. + Cablevision's…
Trailering: Space Nazis and car alarm vigilantes.
2008-05-07 11:42:07
Yes! Nazis on the moon. Here's a trailer for "Iron Sky," a film that doesn't actually exist yet. It's the new project of the Finnish group responsible…
Odds: Page is Eyre, an appreciation of Pepper Potts, and promoting "Poultrygeist."
2008-05-07 10:31:33
Ellen Page, everyone's favorite sassypants MySpace generation heroine, will be playing Jane Eyre in an upcoming BBC Films adaptation, reports Variety, honest to…
Thurman's stalker offers an alternative take on "Kill Bill."
2008-05-07 10:31:33
Jack Jordan was found guilty of stalking Uma Thurman today. According to the New York Times, "During the jury trial in State Supreme Court in Manhattan, Mr.…
The stages of grief, as chronicled online.
2008-05-07 10:31:33
A touch more network news (May's a big month for us). IFC.com's been hosting new, never-before-seen episodes from the "Four Eyed Monsters" filmmakers…