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Berlinale vs. LFF: A Press Perspective
Having experienced my first two festivals as a member of the press, I feel compelled to compare them, noting the areas where one festival outperformed the other. Although London and Berlin are quite...
Mar 14, 2011 / Alison FrankWichita gets a shout out in the Washington Express
Why not Wichita? That’s what the Washington Express asked Thursday while analyzing the tendency of movie aliens to invade large population centers like New York and Los Angeles. Before the latest...
Mar 11, 2011 / Eric M. ArmstrongJulianne Moore to play Sarah Palin in HBO movie
Step aside, Tina Fey, there’s a new folksy Palin impersonator stepping into the spotlight. Four-time Oscar nominee Julianne Moore will play the ultra-conservative momma grizzly in HBO’s upcoming...
Mar 10, 2011 / Eric M. ArmstrongCityArts to offer experimental filmmaking classes
WICHITA, Kan. – Wichita’s downtown CityArts hub will be offering three new filmmaking classes in its upcoming term. Instructor Bryan McManus, a recent graduate of the Savannah College of Art and...
Mar 9, 2011 / Eric M. ArmstrongTrailer: ‘Beauty Day’ documentary
Beauty Day Trailer from Jay Cheel on Vimeo . “BEFORE THERE WAS JACKASS… BEFORE THERE WAS TOM GREEN… THERE WAS RALPH ZAVADIL.” Podcaster and documentarian, Jay Cheel, presents his first feature...
Mar 7, 2011 / Eric M. Armstrong‘The King’s Speech’ wins top prize at Oscars
Tom Hooper’s British period drama, “The King’s Speech” won the Academy Award for Best Picture Sunday, the film industry’s most coveted prize. Hooper also won top honors in the category of Direction,...
Mar 1, 2011 / Eric M. Armstrong‘Last Airbender’ cleans up at the Razzies
M. Night Shyamalan’s mystical “The Last Airbender,” about characters who can manipulate the elements, led all other contenders Saturday with five Razzie awards, including Worst Picture, Worst...
Feb 28, 2011 / Eric M. ArmstrongBerlinale Winners
The general mood of journalists at the 61 st Berlin Film Festival was disappointment: reports generally characterised the selection as dismal. The Independent’s Jonathan Romney explained that the...
Feb 22, 2011 / Alison FrankRobert Downey Jr. in talks to join P.T. Anderson’s ‘Inherent Vice’
Since he dropped out of Disney’s “Oz, the Great and Powerful,” Robert Downey Jr. is looking to fill the gap in his schedule with a starring role in Paul Thomas Anderson’s next project, “Inherent...
Feb 21, 2011 / Eric M. ArmstrongThe Prize: Not a Winner
After yesterday’s blog on My Best Enemy , a film set during Germany’s fascist past, today’s blog reviews a film set during the country’s communist period, as well as the present-day. The Prize ( Der...
Feb 19, 2011 / Alison Frank‘Ashamed’ at the Berlinale
Kim Soo-hyun’s distinctive way of looking at the world shines through in bursts of comic dialogue and unexpected visual twists in Ashamed ( Chang-Pi-Hae , 2010). For the most part, the film is mildly...
Feb 17, 2011 / Alison FrankEnter the Void (2010)
“Enter the Void” will be loathed by a lot of people. Dismissed as a pretentious stoner flick trying desperately to dazzle. And I won’t completely disagree. But French director Gaspar Noé’s third...
Feb 17, 2011 / Eric M. ArmstrongMy Best Enemy: One of the Berlinale’s best films
Wolfgang Murnburger’s latest film tells the story of two lifelong friends, Rudi and Victor: when World War II breaks out, Rudi joins the Nazis and betrays Victor, who is Jewish. This is all I knew...
Feb 17, 2011 / Alison FrankOn Campus at the Berlinale
The Berlin Film Festival is not just about watching films that have already been made: it also invests in the future of cinema by nurturing new talent. The Berlinale Talent Campus, now in its 9 th...
Feb 15, 2011 / Alison FrankBerlinale Day 4: The Allegory of the ‘Cave of Forgotten Dreams’, 3D
When I arrived at my hotel in Berlin to cover this festival, I was surprised to discover a default image of a fireplace quietly crackling away on the flat screen TV on the wall of my room. I wondered...
Feb 14, 2011 / Alison FrankRecent Articles
- Review: ‘A War’ explores war’s quiet, forgotten horrors
- TMA FilmCast #33 — Vera Chytilova and the Czech New Wave
- The fantasist: The comic art of Woody Allen
- Tribeca picks up North American rights to ‘Misery Loves Comedy’ at Sundance
- TMA FilmCast #32 — Alison Frank interviews Ana Geislerova
- ‘Grand Budapest Hotel’ tops Online Film Critics Awards
- TMA FilmCast #31 — Alison Frank reports from 67th Locarno Film Fest
- 5 ½ hour film dominates awards at Locarno
- Shorts at #Locarno67: meditation vs testing the audience’s patience
- ‘The Fool’: A modern propaganda film
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