Russian fest embraces commercial fare
Commercial fare found favor at the Moscow Intl. Film Festival, which closed July 2, while arthouse pic went home empty-handed.
View Article‘Good Year’ on Toronto’s calendar
The Ridley Scott-Russell Crowe drama "A Good Year" and Anthony Minghella's "Breaking and Entering," starring Jude Law, will world preem at the Toronto Film Festival. Also announced Tuesday, Truman...
View ArticleCode makes Rich Freeman partner
Code Entertainment has tapped veteran lit agent Rich Freeman as a partner alongside Rick Berg and Larry Kennar.
View ArticleUSA promotes Alex Sepiol to VP
USA Network has upped Alex Sepiol to VP of original scripted series programming.
View ArticlePhil Ochs: There but for Fortune
A warts-and-all portrait of a singer and his celebrity, "Phil Ochs: There but for Fortune" is an overdue look at the '60s folk movement's anti-Dylan.
View Article‘Untouchable’ wins Tokyo Grand Prix
"Untouchable," French helmers Eric Toledano and Olivier Nakache's drama about the oil-and-water relationship between a paralyzed French aristocrat and his ex-con caregiver, won the Tokyo Sakura Grand...
View ArticleLegit Review: ‘Passion Play’
“Annie Hall” remains celebrated for the scene in which Woody Allen and Diane Keaton’s spoken words are wittily contradicted by their thoughts presented in subtitles. Four years later, Peter Nichols’s...
View ArticleSouth African Cinema: Hello Bafana
When South Africa made the quantum leap from apartheid to liberation, faced with the task of creating equal opportunities for a population of 40 million (the majority previously disenfranchised), the...
View ArticleToronto Film Review: ‘The Bit Player’
Jeffrey Jeturian pokes good-natured fun at TV soap operas in this appealing dramedy starring Filipino screen queen Vilma Santos.
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