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TFF Blog: Welcome to the 37th Telluride Film Festival
Slash Film &bull Yesterday
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The Documentary Channel to Air Pennebaker/Hegedus Retrospective Starting September 4
The Documentary Blog &bull YesterdayThis weekend The Documentary Channel will begin airing a month long retrospective of the works of legendary documentary filmmakers D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus. This exclusive block of program will feature eight films, some of which will be airing for the first time in the US. I've gathered the list of films - and the times they will air - below and have shared my own thoughts on each film. Have a look and see if anything catches your interest and be sure to stay tuned to The Documentary Channel for an opportunity to see a bunch of these films… Full Story »
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On DVD: How to Organize a Do-It Yourself Labor Day Film Festival
Movieline &bull YesterdaySure, Christmas movies for Christmastime, ad infintum, but Labor Day movies? Why not? Most of us seem unaware of it, but Labor Day is in fact a day federally designated to celebrate the unions and a unionized working class. It was initiated in 1887 by President Grover Cleveland to appease the a discontented working class, and the possibility of labor groups using the anniversary of the Haymarket riots and hangings of 1886 to institute an annual protest parade against the ownership class. Today,… Full Story »
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Prince of Limited Releases
The Numbers &bull YesterdayThere are quite a few limited releases on this week's list, including several earning overwhelmingly positive reviews. Last Train Home, Mesrine: Public Enemy Number One, and Prince of Broadway all deserve to be seen be a wider audience, but I'm not sure if any will really thrive. A film set on seven different Tuesdays over seven years in a post-9/11 New York City. If… Full Story »
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Distributor Profile: Women Make Movies
indieWIRE News &bull Yesterday
All information published in the indieWIRE Distributor Profiles is provided by the individual company. Company History Women Make Movies, a non-profit media organization based in NY whose mission is to facilitate the production, promotion and distribution of films by women… Full Story »
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Out Of Europe (Dvd)
Film Threat &bull YesterdayRichard Lerner's documentary focuses on his family's remarkable exodus out of Nazi-occupied Europe. The Lerners were a Polish-Jewish family that settled in Antwerp in the early part of the 20th century - the family was originally en route to the… Full Story »
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- The Fall
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Paramount's "Waiting for 'Superman'" reaches goal of 50k pledges
Hollywood Entertainment Network &bull YesterdayHollywood Awards. That's when Paramount Pictures, Participant Media and Walden Media announced that 50,000 people pledged to see the award-winning documentary film "Waiting for 'Superman'" when it opens in the fall, meaning they hit their third goal on the "Pledge… Full Story »
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Off to Telluride
Criterion Collection &bull YesterdayThe annual Telluride Film Festival is now under way, and, as usual, Criterion is there. Like every year, the festival programmers kept the official selections hush-hush in the weeks leading up to the event. But the twenty-four-feature lineup has announced… Full Story »
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"Last Train Home" Director Lixin Fan
indieWIRE News &bull Yesterday
Filmmaker Lixin Fan may very well be one of modern-day China's great non-fiction storytellers. His Sundance World Cinema Documentary competition film, "Last Train Home" is a documentary masterpiece that depicts China's meteoric rise to economic powerhouse through the story of… Full Story »
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'Expendables' Directors Cut & Doc Coming
Deadline.com &bull YesterdayI can't blame Sly Stallone for wanting to milk The Expendables for all its worth. On his new Twitter account, Stallone says his director's cut will be out in about six months but also "Inferno, which is the documentary, will… Full Story »
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It's CENFLO weekend - Central Florida Film Festival time
Frankly My Dear &bull YesterdayThe fifth Central Florida Film Festival is this weekend at the West Orange 5 in Ocoee, just west of Orlando at the intersection of SR 50 and Maguire Rd. A functional cinema-cafe, with beers and a burgers and hotdogs snackbar,… Full Story »
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Requiem for a noble American soldier
Chicago Sun-Times Entertainment &bull Yesterday
There isn't a shortage of stomach-turning moments in "The Tillman Story" -- Amir Bar-Lev's harrowing documentary about how the U.S. government exploited the death of NFL player turned soldier Pat Tillman. In this lucid and unsentimental portrayal of our generation's most famous fallen warrior, we become submerged in government lies, righteous condescension and vile media… Full Story »
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Hot picks: The Tillman Story,' Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps,' Buried'
Kansas City Star &bull YesterdayThe life and death of Cpl. Pat Tillman - who walked away from a lucrative NFL career to enlist in the Army after Sept. 11 and was killed by friendly fire in Afghanistan - has been thoroughly documented in the… Full Story »
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Jamie Bell is a Man On A Ledge
Total Film &bull YesterdayJamie Bell and Anthony Mackie are both in talks to star alongside Sam Worthington in cop drama Man On A Ledge. Directed by Asger Leth, whose sole previous credit is documentary Ghosts Of Cite Soleil, the plot follows a former… Full Story »
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'Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child'
SFGate - Movie Reviews &bull YesterdayJean-Michel Basquiat died at 27 of a drug overdose at - or, he feared, just past - the pinnacle of a painting career that today symbolizes the headlong spirit of money-drunk 1980s culture. Filmmaker Tamra Davis begins her tribute to… Full Story »
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Review: 'The Tillman Story'
SFGate - Movie Reviews &bull YesterdayEloquence is sometimes just a matter of having something real to say and saying it. By that standard, one of the most eloquent funeral orations captured on film can be found in "The Tillman Story," a documentary about Pat Tillman,… Full Story »
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Film Review: Amazing Saga of 'The Tillman Story' Has Lasting Power
HollywoodChicago.com &bull Yesterday
CHICAGO - You are unlikely to see a documentary this year more powerful than "The Tillman Story." This film will shake your concept of heroism, the marketing machine of government, the military complex, and the state of journalism in the… Full Story »
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'Catfish': Buzz about a 'reality thriller'
Entertainment Weekly - Movies &bull YesterdaySundance favorite Catfish, a self-described "reality thriller" that follows the online courtship of 24-year-old photographer Nev Schulman and a woman named Megan to a shocking conclusion, hits select theaters Sept. 17. If you haven't heard about the documentary, watch the… Full Story »
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Bigfoot Is Real!
DVD Verdict &bull Sep 3, 2010
People have always had a fascination for myths and legends unsupportable by fact or logic or reason; such as ghosts, demons, witches, and Keynesian economics. In the United States, no such legend has endured with such widespread fascination as the idea of some sort of primitive ape-man that lives in the wildernessthough such legends are certainly not exclusive to North America. Here, the creature may be called the Wild Man, or Nuk-luk, or Sasquatch, but he might be best known as… Full Story »
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Marsha Hunt: Great American Part II
Alt Film Guide &bull Sep 2, 2010The United Nations Association is only one of many, many non-profits that Marsha Hunt has supported over the last 55 years. For her twenty-five years of service to the United Nations Association, Marsha was awarded with the Eleanor Roosevelt Humanitarian Award, the organization's highest honor. This award meant even more to Marsha because… Full Story »
