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Festivals (10 posts found)
Justin Zackham On The Universal Truth That Helped Him Write Romantic Comedy The Big Wedding
Hollywood rumor has it that Zackham wrote The Bucket List in two weeks, so when I got to interview the screenwriter -- and first-time director -- of course I had to ask how long The Big Wedding took. He laughed and said that reports of his speedy writing had b...
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Tribeca Review: Michael H. Profession: Director
B+
It's not until Michael H. Profession: Director is almost over that it becomes apparent exactly how well its approach is suited to its subject. Yves Montmayeur's documentary on the career and creative process of the celebrated Austrian filmmaker Michael Han...
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Tribeca Review: Taboor
B-
Vahid Vakilifar's Taboor is a film defined more by what's absent on screen than the images and sounds themselves. There's very little spoken text, and only one scene that might be dialogue rather than voiceover. It takes place in what appears to be a pos...
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Goodbye Ebertfest: It All Starts With The Golden Thumb
Note: Since the past few days have been a hectic mess, the following post discusses Saturday and Sunday at the 15th annual Ebertfest.
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Roger Ebert’s affinity for nuanced, daring, and compassionate cinema has perhaps never been more apparent than in this yea...
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Tribeca Review: Farah Goes Bang
There are a number of intriguing ideas in Meera Menon's first feature, Farah Goes Bang, although most of them struggle against this being very much A First Feature; there is an uneasy balance between the movie's heart being in the right place and pervasive tec...
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Dispatch From Day Three at Ebertfest: Two Filmmakers, Two Tales of Addiction, and Two Invaluable Souls
Yesterday at Ebertfest was a day of twos.
It began with young filmmakers Sophie Kohn and Feike Santbergen whose short film To Music, about a trio of musicians who work out their issues through art, screened before Paul Cox’s Vincent on Thursday. They were g...
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Ebertfest: A Discussion with To Music Filmmakers Sophie Kohn and Feike Santbergen
This morning Sophie Kohn and Feike Santbergen were kind enough to sit down and discuss their short film that played at Ebertfest yesterday, To Music. You can read my thoughts about the short here. Below is the transcribed discussion we had this morning.
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Dispatch From Ebertfest: A Sweet Short, In the Family, Van Gogh, Linklater, and the Eternal Voice of Roger
There’s heavy rain in Champaign on the second day of the 15th Annual Ebertfest, which begins with a line wrapping half around the block for Paul Cox’s 1987 documentary Vincent, chronicling the life and times of the post-impressionistic artist Vincent Van Gogh....
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Our 10 Most Anticipated Films At The Tribeca Film Festival 2013
With the Tribeca Film Festival kicking off in New York City this week, half the battle is figuring out which screenings to attend. Seriously, they hand out color-coded grids to attendees—and we find ourselves making our own personal flowcharts as well. Even th...
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Ebertfest Lineup Released: Days of Heaven, Van Gogh, The Spectacular Now, Richard Linklater, and More
After months of anticipation, the lineup for Roger Ebert's 15th annual film festival Ebertfest has been released.
Once again, Roger's affinity for highlighting independent cinema shines through this year's group of movies. Crafting a well-balanced lineup is...
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