Shorts, 75.- July 5, 2008 "The Obama press contingent was abuzz last night with the news that Davis Guggenheim, the Oscar-winning director of An Inconvenient Truth, has apparently been enlisted to direct Barack Obama's biographical convention film." Variety's Ted Johnson's got what's known so...http://daily.greencine.com/archives/006341.html Books, 75.- July 5, 2008 "Deeply researched, conscientiously written, careful to contextualize its subject both in his field and in the larger culture that shaped his work, Everything Is Cinema: The Working Life of Jean-Luc Godard is in almost every respect an admirable biography,...http://daily.greencine.com/archives/006340.html Interviews, 75.- July 5, 2008 "With Guido Santi and Tina Mascara's sparkling documentary Chris & Don: A Love Story arriving in theaters just as same-sex marriage arrives in California, it seems a most auspicious moment to speak to the surviving member of one of...http://daily.greencine.com/archives/006339.html Fests and events, 75.- July 5, 2008 Film Threat's Jeremy Knox caught "two great films" the night Fantasia opened in Montreal. Through July 21. "A film festival unlike any other, Bergmanveckan (or Bergman Week), now in its fifth year in operation and its first incarnation since...http://daily.greencine.com/archives/006338.html A "4th of July Weekend Read."- July 5, 2008 That it is, in many, many ways. "Finding," by Guy Davenport, by way of Wyatt Mason. The most obviously film-related bits surface about a third of the way in - but read on, see what else you find....http://daily.greencine.com/archives/006337.html Film Comment. JulyAugust 08.- July 4, 2008 Why do cinephiles regard Manoel de Oliveira so highly, you may find yourself wondering as you begin reading Jonathan Rosenbaum major piece on the "Classical Modernist" in the new issue of Film Comment. The weaknesses, after all, are laid...http://daily.greencine.com/archives/006336.html Kabluey.- July 4, 2008 In Kabluey, Scott Prendergast "assembles an assortment of unappealing characters, an exhausted setup (spiritual emptiness in McMansion land, ho-hum) and every conceivable anxiety-inducer known to late-00s Americans - joblessness, war, credit-card debt, menial labor, economic turmoil, live offspring -...http://daily.greencine.com/archives/006335.html Hancock, round 2.- July 3, 2008 To pick up from round 1: Hancock has taken some punches - okay, a lot of punches - but it does have its champions. "Some superhero movies, like Iron Man, amuse us by making their superheroes all-too-human," writes Godfrey...http://daily.greencine.com/archives/006334.html Afro-Punk.- July 3, 2008 For the Voice, Aaron Hillis previews the Afro-Punk Festival, running at BAM from tomorrow through Wednesday: "Among the screening highlights are self-explanatory doc portraits (A Panther in Africa, Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple), auteur rarities (Larry...http://daily.greencine.com/archives/006333.html Bull Durham 20.- July 3, 2008 With Kevin Costner headlining Friday's concert marking the occasion, David Fellerath introduces the Independent Weekly's "Bull Durham turns 20" package: "Today's Durham is considerably different from the sleepy Southern city glimpsed in the movie released two decades ago -...http://daily.greencine.com/archives/006332.html |