CNN Films and Lionsgate have acquired North American rights to Todd Miller’s “Dinosaur 13″ at its premiere at the Sundance Film Festival. The documentary, which debuted Thursday night in Park City, follows paleontologist Peter Larson of South Dakota’s Black Hills Institute of Geological Research and his finding of a 65 million year-old tyrannosaurus rex fossil […]
Only God Forgives (2013): Refn’s is Cannes’ Worst Film, Booed by Critics, Despite Ryan Gosling
January 15, 2014 by
First comes first: “Only God Forgives” was one of the worst titles in competition at this year’s Cannes Film Fest.
The film was booed at its first press screening!
Great Beauty, The (2013): Interview with Italian Oscar Winner Sorrentino
January 8, 2014 by
Brilliant from start to finish, The Great Beauty, one of 2013’s best films, is Italy’s entry for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar. Origins of the film “I have long been thinking about a film which probes the contradictions, the beauties, the scenes I have witnessed and the people I’ve met in Rome. It’s a […]
Sundance Film Fest: How It All Began
January 4, 2014 by
The great Sundance Film Fest celebrates its 30th anniversary. I was honored to served on the Dramatic Jury in 2003 and the festival was the main reason for taking five years to write Cinema of Outsiders (2000), the most popular film book in NYU Press history.
Sundance Film Fest 2014: World Premieres
December 10, 2013 by
Sundance Film Festival unveiled its Premieres slate, with new pictures from British helmer Michael Winterbottom, Irish directors Lenny Abrahamson and John Michael McDonagh, Dutch filmmaker Anton Corbijn, Welsh-born action maven Gareth Evans and Iranian-born French auteur Marjane Satrapi figuring prominently among the 17 world-premiere titles unveiled today alongside the Documentary Premieres section. For director of programming […]
