http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/film/ en-us Tue, 30 Jun 2009 16:51:54 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2282528/posts The New York Times called it "torture porn." But audiences at the Los Angeles Film Festival had a different take; they named the controversial film "Best Feature" at the gathering. Dennis Prager writing at Townhall has some thoughts about the film and conservative complaints about Hollywood: ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Yet, now, released as if by Providence the week after the fraudulent elections in Iran and the suppression and murder of Iranian dissidents, is a film about the nature of the radical Muslims who govern Iran. Titled "The Stoning of Soraya M.," the film depicts events based on the true story of a... American Thinker http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2282528/posts#comment Tue, 30 Jun 2009 16:51:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2281913/posts Is American mega pop star Britney Spears set to return to the big screen, seven years after starring in the box office flop Crossroads? According to reports, Spears has been offered a part in the upcoming Holocaust film The Yellow Star of Sophia and Eton, which integrates time travel, concentration camps and a love story. Haaretz http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2281913/posts#comment Mon, 29 Jun 2009 21:55:14 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2278988/posts Federal election officials will have a hand in writing the script on Sen. John Kerry's plans to become a movie producer. The Federal Election Commission meets Thursday to consider Kerry's request to use $300,000 from his campaign funds to invest in a documentary about injured Iraq war veterans. The 2004 Democratic presidential nominee wants to be an executive producer for a movie tentatively titled "Keeping Faith," by White Mountain Films. Kerry would not be paid, but he could get up to a 120 percent return on his $300,000 investment, according to a March 16 letter he sent to the FEC... AP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2278988/posts#comment Thu, 25 Jun 2009 07:48:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2277298/posts Cinema Comes To Riyadh for First Time in Decades By DONNA ABU-NASR | Associated Press | For the first time in three decades, Saudis in the nation's capital did something that most Westerners take for granted _ they went to the movies. But it wasn't exactly date night. No women were allowed. Newser.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2277298/posts#comment Tue, 23 Jun 2009 03:20:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2277085/posts The Stoning of Soraya M. Over two decades ago, a solitary voice dared to speak the truth. One woman courageously defended the dignity of another. One woman risked her life to uphold the sanctity of another’s life. One woman vowed, “The world will know!” On June 26 — the true story will be revealed — when The Stoning of Soraya M. is released in selected theaters across the U.S. From the filmmakers who produced "The Passion of the Christ," THE STONING OF SORAYA M. is the heart-rending film based on the International best-selling book by French-Iranian journalist Freidoune Sahebjam which... Movie To Movement http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2277085/posts#comment Mon, 22 Jun 2009 21:23:51 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2274133/posts Nowadays blacklists are a silent way of trying to destroy people and their careers. And that suits those doing the blacklisting particularly if they call themselves liberal and claim to care about censorship and human rights. But some liberals forget to keep quiet and make public what is really going on. [W]e asked a number of US companies to work for us. We needed companies to make DVDs and provide translated subtitles for our new documentary Not Evil Just Wrong...it challenges liberal orthodoxy - taking a critical look at environmentalism and Global Warming hysteria. [T]he Atlanta based International Services translation... (c) 2009 by Greener Horizon Films ltd http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2274133/posts#comment Thu, 18 Jun 2009 03:10:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2246513/posts A judge officially rejected Roman Polanski’s request for a dismissal of 32-year-old child sex charges today after the filmmaker missed a deadline to surrender to U.S. authorities. His attorneys had informed Superior Court Judge Peter Espinoza in advance that the director would not return to Los Angeles to meet a deadline set by the court in February, but the judge nevertheless took the bench at the time of his scheduled appearance. Los Angeles Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2246513/posts#comment Thu, 7 May 2009 23:41:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2230713/posts Wolverine!!! Come on, who didn’t leave the theaters screaming the famous line from John Milius’s 1984 movie “Red Dawn”? Okay, not all of us. I was too young to have seen the movie in theaters and saw the film only later on DVD. Er, I mean, VHS. You remember them, right? Those box-looking rectangle thingies with, you know, film and junk? Anyways, they’re rebooting “Red Dawn” for a new generation. So what can we expect? Latino Review has gotten their hands on the script by Carl Ellsworth (”Red Eye”). You can watch the full script review for yourself, and I... ByondHollywood.Com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2230713/posts#comment Thu, 16 Apr 2009 16:43:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2229166/posts Canada's arts community is pondering another swell idea. The folks that brought you compulsory Canadian content on Canadian TV channels at night, and "Can-Con" on radio, are kicking around a new concept, according to a recent news story. Canadian filmgoers aren't going to art theaters and film festivals in large enough numbers to help the Canadian film industry. So, some in the industry are suggesting that one remedy would be to force your local multiplex to devote one or two screens to Canadian films. Western Standard's Shotgun Blog http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2229166/posts#comment Tue, 14 Apr 2009 23:24:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2226927/posts Al Gore is about to feature in a new movie, but he's not going to like it very much. Titled Not Evil Just Wrong: The True Cost of Global Warming Hysteria, the film presents a devastating account of the shaky foundations and hefty price of Mr. Gore's brand of self-interested and hypocritical alarmism. Created by the Irish film making duo of Phelim McAleer and Ann McElhinney -- who made another excellent documentary about the "dark side of environmentalism" called Mine Your Own Business-- Not Evil provides the perfect rebuttal to Mr. Gore's An Inconvenient Truth. Despite being chock a block... FinancialPost.com (Canada) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2226927/posts#comment Sat, 11 Apr 2009 13:04:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2221995/posts He may be a maker of "easterns" rather than westerns, but Majid Majidi is still a big admirer of the director John Ford. "I've always been a great fan of American cinema," said the Iranian director, whose new movie "The Song of Sparrows," features more ostriches than horses, but still has a sense of a new frontier. (See Joe Morgenstern's review.) Karim, the film's quixotic hero, could have been played by Charlie Chaplin or Buster Keaton. He possesses a comic aura of incipient doom. On the ostrich farm where he works, he loses a bird, then loses his job. His... wsj http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2221995/posts#comment Sat, 4 Apr 2009 02:03:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2221223/posts Private equity firm Patriarch Partners snapped up the assets of the photography pioneer with a cult following.New York-based private equity firm Patriarch Partners won the auction for bankrupt Polaroid Corp's assets, both companies said Thursday, with Patriarch winning over three rival bidders. The result of the auction, which ended Tuesday, is subject to court approval at an April 6 hearing. The assets Patriarch is buying include the company's name, intellectual property, and photography collection. It beat bids from PHC Acquisitions, Hilco Consumer Capital Corp and Ritchie Capital. Patriarch's bid totaled $59.1 million, the company said. "We look forward to reconnecting... CNN http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2221223/posts#comment Fri, 3 Apr 2009 02:31:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2206229/posts WASHINGTON, March 13, 2009 – On location in the Middle of Nowhere, Iraq, filmmaker Jake Rademacher focuses his lens on a unit of young reconnaissance troops with whom he’s embedded. For five days they wait in the desert near Syria, watching idly for smugglers bringing weapons, cash or foreign fighters across the border. Conversation is the only thing that colors the monotony of the blank horizon. One soldier says he joined the ranks to make his father proud. Another is confident his duty will benefit posterity. And a crew-cut junior enlisted troop says through a wad of chewing tobacco he’s... American Forces Press Service http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2206229/posts#comment Sat, 14 Mar 2009 00:31:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2194171/posts Between action and cut a million things can go wrong. And if something does, you can always just cut to something in the editing room. Most of the time. "Doing it in one" is about the bravest choice a filmmaker can make. Without shooting coverage you are leaving yourself zero options in post production. You have to get the vision in your brain to happen in three dimensional space right there on the day. And you also have to hope that that initial vision is compelling and will flow with the rest film's rhythm. UGO.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2194171/posts#comment Thu, 26 Feb 2009 01:36:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2193181/posts WASHINGTON, Feb. 24, 2009 – Coinciding with the HBO Film premiere of “Taking Chance,” based on a Marine’s tribute to a fallen comrade, more than 100 servicemembers joined the Run4Chance team at the 28th Annual Los Alamitos 5K “Race on the Base” in California to honor the fallen hero. More than 100 servicemembers made up the Run4Chance Team at the 28th Annual Los Alamitos 5K “Race on the Base” at the Joint Forces Training Center in California, Feb. 21, 2009. HBO and the Chance Phelps Foundation joined forces for a series of running events around America to benefit members... American Forces Press Service http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2193181/posts#comment Tue, 24 Feb 2009 23:18:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2186951/posts To say that Polly Wagner McCourtney has lived a charmed life would be an understatement. In her 98 years, she has lived many charmed lives. McCourtney, who will turn 99 years old in August, will be discussing Hollywood of the 1930s at the Alex Theatre on Feb. 14 before the screening of “The Philadelphia Story” starring Cary Grant and Katherine Hepburn. She is the perfect speaker for this golden age of Hollywood because she lived it. “We used to spend all our time at the beach,” McCourtney said. “Marion Davies had a place on the beach and she had all... Crescenta Valley Sun http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2186951/posts#comment Mon, 16 Feb 2009 20:47:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2186289/posts Kate Winslet's chances of Oscar glory are being hit by an orchestrated campaign to dismiss her film The Reader as an apologia for Nazi Germany. The Daily Telegraph (UK) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2186289/posts#comment Sun, 15 Feb 2009 20:40:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2185739/posts According to an AFP report Oscar-winning director Martin Scorsese plans to adapt the 1966 novel “Silence” by Shusaku Endo for the screen. The book tells the story of a young Jesuit priest from Portugal who lands in southern Japan, and of Japan’s brutal persecution of Catholics during the 17th century. AFP via NCR http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2185739/posts#comment Sat, 14 Feb 2009 20:07:51 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2181705/posts This week on NRO, we're going to count down the 25 best conservative movies of the last 25 years, starting with #25 later this morning and finishing with #1 on Friday. The Corner at NRO http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2181705/posts#comment Mon, 9 Feb 2009 18:58:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2175309/posts Sam Mendes’s new film, , reprises themes from his celebrated American Beauty and reunites the stars of Titanic, Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet. (Winslet has already won both a Golden Globe and a SAG award for her performance in Road.) Based on a Richard Yates novel, the film depicts the suburban malaise experienced by a young couple (Frank and April Wheeler), a stay-at-home mom of two (Winslet as April) and a father (DiCaprio as Frank) who commutes into the city to work in the stifling corporate world at the same company for which his father labored anonymously throughout his adult life.... National Review Online http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2175309/posts#comment Sat, 31 Jan 2009 00:26:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2168873/posts Oink, oink, oink. Here comes failed automaker Chrysler again, demanding more of your money to save their a**es — while they turn around and dump cash into a movie-making venture. They’ve got $4 billion in federal bailout money and are asking for another $3 billion to seal a deal with Italian car manufacturer, Fiat. Chutzpah: Chrysler’s got $4 billion in emergency aid from the U.S. government and has said it will seek another $3 billion in government loans. And yesterday it agreed to form an alliance with Italy’s Fiat as it looks for the road out of the woods. (The... MichelleMalkin http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2168873/posts#comment Wed, 21 Jan 2009 17:52:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2166215/posts The owners of an Aspen movie theater now hold the rights to Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman's catalog after an eight-year legal dispute with a Scandinavian media group that raised tricky questions about international business deals. www.rockymountainnews.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2166215/posts#comment Sat, 17 Jan 2009 04:11:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2164842/posts The Bergen County Film Commission wants to build upon the area's rich film history, but limited funding and lack of support from local officials is hampering efforts to lure filmmakers. FILE PHOTOS At World Pictures in Fort Lee, formed in 1914, stagehands prepare a set for filming a silent movie. Formed by the Bergen County Freeholders in October 2007, one of the volunteer group's missions was to encourage filmmakers to come to the county and help them find suitable locations. The county, Fort Lee in particular, was home to several film studios in the early 1900s. And since that... northjersey.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2164842/posts#comment Thu, 15 Jan 2009 05:21:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2164264/posts Claude Berri, who as a director, producer, screenwriter and actor was among the most influential figures in the French film industry over the past 40 years, died Monday in Paris. He was 74 and was described after his death by President Nicolas Sarkozy as “the great ambassador of French cinema” to the world. The cause was a stroke, his agent, Dominique Segall, said in a statement. Mr. Berri had been admitted to the hospital on Saturday with a “cerebral vascular problem,” he said. Mr. Berri was, by and large, a filmmaker of mainstream sensibility who favored stories of either quirky... The New York Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2164264/posts#comment Wed, 14 Jan 2009 06:45:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2155462/posts PHILADELPHIA — A South Philadelphia man enraged because a family was talking during a Christmas showing of "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" decided to deal with the situation by shooting the father, police said. James Joseph Cialella Jr., 29, is charged with attempted murder, aggravated assault and weapons violations. His alleged victim, whom police did not identify, was shot in the left arm. He was treated at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital. "It's truly frightening when you see something like this evolve into such violence," said police spokesman Lt. Frank Vanore. "That something like this leads to a shooting in... The Philadelphia Inquirer http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2155462/posts#comment Mon, 29 Dec 2008 08:11:38 GMT