Uwe Boll's "Darfur" drama.

2009-11-04 09:00:00

Like the part of Cannes you don't usually hear about, the American Film Market is the largely unglamorous event held every year in L.A. where film buyers and distributors from across the globe come to put the business back in show business, looking at the latest Sofia Coppola film in the same way they look as "The Whiffler," a comedy about a 'roided up whiffleball player -- that is, as products. Beginning tomorrow, films like Coppola's "Somewhere" will be debuting at AFM, as will Noah Baumbach's "Greenberg" and a host of other attention-worthy endeavors, like the latest from "Teeth" director Mitchell Lichtenstein, "Happy Tears"; the Tribeca fave "The Eclipse"; and two personal highlights of mine from Toronto -- the Tilda Swinton melodrama "I Am Love" and Fatih Akin's "Soul Kitchen." But it's the weird stuff that makes markets so fun. A few I picked out from the AFM catalog: Uwe...

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