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‘My Wedding and Other Secrets’ at Barbican’s New Zealand Film Festival
Blink and you’d have missed it: the Barbican’s New Zealand Film Festival 2011 took place over just 3 days in London last weekend. Although it is a nice idea for every country, however small, to have...
Jul 9, 2011 / Alison FrankRevered and Reviled: D.W. Griffith’s ‘The Birth of a Nation’
“We do not fear censorship, for we have no wish to offend with improprieties or obscenities, but we do demand, as a right, the liberty to show the dark side of wrong, that we may illuminate the...
Feb 26, 2010 / Eric M. ArmstrongSummit Boards ‘The Cold Light of Day’
Summit Entertainment has agreed to co-finance “The Cold Light of Day,” a thriller, with Intrepid Pictures. Variety reports that Trevor Macy and Marc D. Evans of Intrepid will produce the flick, which...
Nov 10, 2009 / Eric M. ArmstrongFincher to Adapt ‘House of Cards’
David Fincher, director of “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,” “Zodiac,” and “Fight Club,” has teamed with Media Rights Capital to adapt the popular British miniseries, “House of Cards,” for...
Oct 22, 2009 / Eric M. ArmstrongDavid Fincher in Talks to Direct Facebook Movie
David Fincher, director of “Fight Club,” “Se7en,” and “Zodiac,” is in advanced talks with Columbia Pictures to direct Aaron Sorkin’s screenplay about the formation of Facebook called, “The Social...
Jun 24, 2009 / Eric M. ArmstrongNight at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian (2009)
Allow me to begin with a question. Imagine you’ve been commissioned to write a comedy involving French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte. What’s the first thing that comes to mind? Short jokes, right? This...
May 26, 2009 / Eric M. ArmstrongFirst Glimpse of “Prince of Persia”
Films adapted from video games have a relatively long and disgraceful past. It’s widely agreed upon, in fact, that there has never been a successful instance of a video game translated to the silver...
May 11, 2009 / Eric M. ArmstrongRecent 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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