Remember how Sofia Coppola’s divisive Somewhere opened here last weekend without hardly a TV spot (or press screening)? I’m gonna try to help fix that – besides, y’know, reviewing the films, which you should still totally look for every week in print Wednesdays and online Thursdays – by posting confirmed bookings here as I...
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It was during the 2007 Florida Film Festival when Peter Bagdanovich made an announcement that the deal for the world might finally see The Other Side of the Wind was “99.9% finished.” It was an exciting moment for film fans everywhere. Orson Welles and John Huston together! And then nothing happened. The story has...
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So it’s time for Sundance once again, and time for every film fan who isn’t there in Park City to whine about having to wait to see the films. Sure, it’s not Cannes or Toronto, but it still looks damn fun and the films there still have plenty of buzz. The pick of the...
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Hey you crazy kids out there, with your camcorder around your neck and a dream in your heart: The Festival of Chocolate (March 4-6) wants you! The annual(?) chocofest at the Orlando Science Center is opening up their festivities to wannabe filmmakers. The mission:”create a unique ‘chocolate’ twist on a classic fairytale or develop...
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Dattani Entertainment is a company that brings Indian film to Orlando via Touchstar Cinemas. This is not a sponsored post. All films listed are playing the Southchase 7, 12441 S. Orange Blossom Trail Orlando. Dhobi Ghat. The Hindi film played Toronto in September. Stars Aamir Khan. Mildly controversial, highly acclaimed. Fri, Jan 21 –...
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Inspired by Top Gear, two local filmmakers – David Kaine and Charles Corbett – are hoping to set out on an expedition of their own this winter. They’re going to attempt to drive from the southernmost point in the U.S. (“Mile Zero” in Key West) to the northernmost, Prudhoe Bay, Alaska. It’s 5,500 miles...
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Over the upcoming weekend, most of the top 50 markets will be greeted by two new faces on their televisions as Christy Lemire of The Associated Press and Ignatiy Vishnevetsky of Mubi.com take over on the balcony made famous by Siskel and Ebert. Not Orlando, though.
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UPDATE: I’ve just learned from OMA that the For the Bible Tells Me So screening has been postponed. I’ll keep you posted when/if it’s rescheduled. A confluence of great film screenings is upon us, and what better way to ring out this crappy start to 2011. Venues: We need more of these. For our...
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Hey, remember that supposedly incendiary JFK miniseries that was coming to the History Channel? It isn’t. At the 11th hour, the network has nixed the controversial program, which Robert Greenwald and others had assailed as a smear job guided more by executive producer Joel Surnow’s well-documented right-wing bona fides than by anything resembling historical...
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As always, dates are subject to change. 1/1 – bumbling terrorist comedy Four Lions (Enzian – pictured) 1/7 – French detective mystery Inspector Bellamy (Enzian) 1/14 – Nicole Kidman and Aaron Eckhart as grieving parents in Rabbit Hole (Enzian), Sally Hawkins fights for women’s rights in Made in Dagenham (Winter Park) 1/21 – epic...
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