GreenCine Daily (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
by Eric Kohn Anti-semitism lurks in unsuspecting places, but only to those who seek it out. Defamation , Yoav Shamir's provocative documentary, released in select theaters last week, conveys at least that much. But Shamir goes one step further, arguing that awareness of the eponymous offense is buried in a confusion of past and present. Adopting an intentionally naïve outlook, he...
92Y Blog (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
Clockwise from top left: Ben Foster , Dorothy Hamilton, David Bouley , PFFR , Kumail Nanjiani Mon, Nov 9 Film: Coming Home (1978) Directed by Hal Ashby, Starring Jane Fonda Food Talks: Cooks Who Care: Connecting Community Through Food Film: The Messenger with actor Ben Foster and director Oren Moverman in person for post-screening Q&A moderated by Eric Kohn. Tue, Nov 10 Music: John...
eugonline (Free subscription) | 28/10/2009
The folks at OpenIndie, the new film distribution concept launched by Arin Crumley and Kieran Masterson, need to raise just $108 in the next 31 hours, to support their new initiative. I finally donated today (sorry for the delay). Will you join? More on OpenIndie in Eric Kohn’s article at indieWIRE.
Cinematical (Free subscription) | 26/10/2009
... even crazier after that! (More post-jump.) What has me intrigued is the responses from folks like Eric Kohn at IndieWire (" A mondo B-movie that holds nothing back ... Modus Operandi is a movie utterly content with its own insanity .") and Stephen Zeitchik of The Hollywood Reporter (" It bursts with campiness and odes to '70s movie outrageousness .") Sounds right...
Hollywood Elsewhere (Free subscription) | 23/10/2009
An intriguing similarity between Amelia and Up In The Air has been remarked upon by Eric Kohn in Moving Pictures magazine....
CinemaTech (Free subscription) | 17/10/2009
... which hopes to raise $10,000 from 100 filmmakers this month. (They are about half-way there.) Eric Kohn serves up the details on IndieWire, but the gist is that they'd like to have independent filmmakers pool their e-mail lists of people interested in seeing their film (or in putting on screenings), and then be able to collectively use the people in that database to understand where...
