Sunday, May 31, 2015

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'So You Think You Can Dance': Season 12

'So You Think You Can Dance' - Season 12 scenes.
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'UnREAL': Scenes From Season 1

Scenes from Lifetime's 'UnREAL.'
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Top Takeaways from IFP's Amy Dotson's Catalyst 'Anti-Keynote': 'You Are Not a Filmmaker'

Amy Dotson, Deputy Director and Head of Programming for the Independent Filmmaker Project (IFP), delivered the SIFF Catalyst Keynote on May 30 at the Seattle International Film Festival (SIFF). In her keynote, which she dubbed "the anti-keynote," she urged filmmakers not to limit themselves by boxing themselves into the traditional term "filmmaker." Filmmaker Magazine published her talk in its entirety, but below are highlights from the keynote: READ MORE: Seattle Film Fest Programs 6 American Indies in Catalyst Lineup You are not a filmmaker. "What makes that thing – and its creator – important is how others perceive it," said Dotson. In this age where...

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'Outlander': More Pics From The Season 1 Finale

More photos from the 'Outlander' Season 1 finale - 'To Ransom a Man's Soul.'
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Friday, May 29, 2015

'Outlander': Season 1 Finale Scenes

Scenes from 'Outlander' Season 1, Episode 16 - 'To Ransom a Man's Soul.'
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Brooklyn Film Festival Announces Lineup for 18th Edition, Will Open with 'Manson Family Vacation'

The Brooklyn Film Festival, now in its 18th year, has announced their lineup of narrative and documentary films. 108 features and shorts were selected, from 26 countries and five continents. The festival will open with the East Coast premiere of J. Davis' "Manson Family Vacation," starring Jay Duplass and Linas Phillips.  READ MORE: Duplass Brothers' 'Manson Family Vacation' To Open 18th Annual Brooklyn Film Fest The theme of this year's festival, "Illuminate," was described by BFF executive director Marco Ursino as an attempt to "spotlight storytelling without boundaries and welcome multi-layered stories, including the abstract and the inspirational,...

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Cannes: Why Jeremy Saulnier Didn't Make a Studio Movie After 'Blue Ruin'

READ MORE: How Jeremy Saulnier Went From Corporate Videos to Premiering 'Blue Ruin' at Cannes When Jeremy Saulnier arrived at the Cannes Film Festival's Directors Fortnight in 2013 to premiere his tense revenge thriller "Blue Ruin," he was at the end of a long road. Having worked for years producing corporate videos while developing his career as a cinematographer on sleeper hits like "Putty Hill" and "Septien," Saulnier had completed just one feature as a director — 2007's Slamdance-winning "Murder Party" — and struggled for years to get another one off the ground. It was worth the wait: "Blue Ruin" scored a lucrative distribution deal with...

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Thursday, May 28, 2015

'Beauty And The Beast': Season 3

Scenes from The CW's 'Beauty and The Beast' Season 3.
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'Game Of Thrones' Season 5, Episode 8 - 'Hardhome'

'Game of Thrones' - scenes from Season 5, Episode 8 - 'Hardhome.'
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Provincetown Film Festival to Honor Bobcat Goldthwait, Jennifer Coolidge

READ MORE: Provincetown Film Festival Releases Lineup For 17th Edition  The Provincetown International Film Festival (PIFF) announced that it will honor comedian and writer-director Bobcat Goldthwait, as well as actress Jennnifer Coolidge, at this year's edition of the festival. Goldthwait, whose documentary "Call Me Lucky" screened in competition at Sundance in January, will be named "Filmmaker on the Edge" in a conversation with PIFF resident artist John Waters. Coolidge, best known for her roles in "Best in Show" and the "American Pie" and "Legally Blonde" franchises, will be awarded the Faith Hubley Career Achievement Award from...

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Batman On 'Suicide Squad' Set

The Caped Crusader is hunting bad guys in 'Suicide Squad'!
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This Weekend In LA: Classic Cartoons at The Old Town Music Hall

Come join us for a celebration of great music from cartoons of the 1930s & 1940s. Betty Boop, Koko The Clown, Popeye, Oswald Rabbit, Bugs Bunny, Porky Pig, and others will entertain in a special program curated by noted animation historian me - Jerry Beck - who will introduce each cartoon. This program takes place at the world famous Old Town Music Hall in El Segundo, California (near LAX) - which will be featured in a report on CBS Sunday Morning this week.  Each show is preceded by a prologue on the Mighty Wurlitzer, a massive 1925 wind-powered pipe organ that has been meticulously preserved. It's something you really have to see and hear to believe.  Showtimes...

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Ambitious Edinburgh Film Fest Reveals 2015 Program, From 'Amy' to 'Inside Out'

The reinvented Edinburgh Film Festival, under new artistic director and taste-making film critic Mark Adams, unveiled its 69th lineup. From June 17 to 28, the festival will present 164 films from 36 countries. Among the program are 24 world premieres, and guest appearances from Ewan McGregor, Jane Seymour, Malcolm McDowell and Hong Kong auteur Johnnie To, and a conversation with EIFF honoree Seamus McGarvey and Oscar-winning DP Haskell Wexler. Highlights include the UK premiere of Asif Kapadia's rapturously praised Cannes doc "Amy," Disney/Pixar's "Inside Out," the wonderful Brian Wilson biopic "Love and Mercy," 2015 Sundance premiere "Last Days in...

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L.A. Student Film Festival's Finalist Announced - Event Happening this Saturday!

The next generation of talented filmmakers has grown up in a time in which cameras are more easily available than ever before. Their relationship to the moving image is incredibly interactive and natural. The YouTube generation shoots everything, edits, shares, and expresses its opinions on virtual global platforms. Therefore, it's not surprising to see very young filmmakers creating works of great quality with the tools at their disposal, which are also rapidly becoming more and more professional while still affordable. I had the great pleasure of watching numerous examples of this type of talent as a juror for the Fifth Annual Los Angeles Student Film Festival. After receiving nearly...

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Wednesday, May 27, 2015

Exclusive: Watch 10 LA Film Fest Directors Talk Shooting Indie in Los Angeles

Running June 10-18 in downtown LA, Film Independent's Los Angeles Film Festival 2015 program includes its second annual Muse lineup of films set in, inspired by or shot in Los Angeles. Below, we reveal an exclusive video series documenting the making of these films. The 2015 LA Muse lineup consists of three documentaries and seven fiction films; five films are by first time directors. All the films are having their world premiere at the Festival. You may recognize one name: Zoe Cassavetes, daughter of John Cassavetes and Gena Rowlands, who makes her first film since 2007 breakout "Broken English." “LA is one of the most creative cities in the world –it’s where stars and rebels...

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Outfest Announces 2015 Screenwriting Lab Fellows

Outfest has announced the five fellows and their projects selected for its 2015 Screenwriting Lab. Joanna Benecke, Bretten Hannam, Eliza Lee, Michael Perlman, and Michael Patrick Spillers have been selected for this year’s program. Now in its 13th year, and hosted by Chateau Marmont, the Screenwriting Lab is a program of Outfest Forward, which is supported by Final Draft and DreamWorks Animation.  "It is inspiring to read the next generation of LGBT storytellers in a time when we have seen so much progress in the transgender community and with marriage equality recognition. I am honored to come from my past work in film development and begin ushering in such diverse and...

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Hot Docs Director of Programming Charlotte Cook Set to Depart

READ MORE: Reality Checks: How Hot Docs Helps Underappreciated Documentaries Find Life Cook is leaving "to pursue to pursue a new, to-be-announced career opportunity at the intersection of documentary film production and curation," according to an announcement issued by the festival. Cook's successor has yet to be named and although she will be leaving the post at the end of this month, she will continue to assist with the transition throughout the rest of the summer. Over at Medium, Cook writes about her time at Hot Docs. The official announcement from Hot Docs also included the following statement of gratitude from the festival: "Hot Docs thanks Charlotte for her...

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The Best Films at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival According to Criticwire

This year's Cannes Film Festival elicited some of the more surprising reactions from critics in recent memory. With no clear frontrunner and a handful of favorites for the top festival recognition, Todd Haynes' "Carol" proved to be the favorite among the members of our Criticwire Network. SEE THE RESULTS: Best Films and Performances From Cannes 2015 As we do at the end of major festivals, we asked critics who attended the festival to select their favorite films and performances from the lineup. From there, we assembled the collective rankings based on a simple points scale. (For a full list of results, including detailed breakdowns of every critic's ballot, see the survey...

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Tuesday, May 26, 2015

LA Film Fest Adds Free Screenings of 'Love and Basketball,' 'Roger Rabbit' and More

From June to 18, Film Independent's Los Angeles Film Festival returns to downtown's LA Live with 74 feature films, 60 short films and over 50 new media works representing 35 countries. The festival has just added a 15th anniversary screening of Gina Prince-Bythewood's "Love & Basketball," Robert Zemeckis' "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?" and more. Also announced today, the annual Coffee Talks Panels featuring actors Kathryn Hahn, David Koechner, Bryce Dallas Howard and Alfre Woodard, "Jurassic World" director Colin Trevorrow and more. The Festival will also host a special panel on the UN about filmmaking and a special Members only screening of...

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'Carol' Producer Christine Vachon Talks Being Queen of the Croisette

One of the great things about getting into the Cannes Competition is participating in the festival rituals. I spoke to producer Christine Vachon, who attended Cannes with her frequent collaborator Todd Haynes and "Carol." What's it like to be part of one of the big films there? "You’re like, 'Okay, here’s the photo call. Here’s what we do.' The producer always stands on the end so they can get cut out. It’s like an unwritten law. You’re lucky if you’re standing next to Cate, so a bit of face will make its way in. You know what to expect, but, at the same time, you know that you go up the carpet, the director chooses the music. (TK) And the press conference is, again, I...

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Memo to Distributors: Buy These 2015 Cannes Film Festival Movies

READ MORE: The 2015 Indiewire Cannes Bible The latest edition of the Cannes Film Festival has come to a close, but many of its highlights are already on track to reach more audiences. While not every festival favorite has the resources of, say, Cannes favorite "Mad Max: Fury Road," several other festival favorites were lucky enough to secure distribution. These include Palme d'Or winner "Dheepan," which was set up with IFC Films ahead of the festival, as was A24's Amy Winehouse documentary "Amy." Critical favorite "Son of Saul" found a supportive home at Sony Pictures Classics, which also snatched up Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-eda's gentle...

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Cannes Buy: Kino Lorber Acquires Cannes Award-Winner 'Measure of a Man'

The distributor scooped up all U.S. and Canadian rights to Stephane Brize's sixth feature, "The Measure of a Man," which took home the Best Actor prize for star Vincent Lindon. The movie is a sensitive portrayal of a working-class man struggling to stay employed and care for his family, as well as keep his values in a tough world.  The film was directed by Brizé ("Mademoiselle Chambon," starring Lindon) and co-written by Brizé and Olivier Gorce. Brizé supports his lead with a cast of non-pros playing dramatized versions of themselves. Art-house distributor Kino Lorber, which released "Mademoiselle Chambon" in the United States...

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