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07.30.10Catfish Trailer Sean | Trailers | (7)Although we weren’t able to attend the Sundance Film Festival back in February, one of the many intriguing movies that I kept hearing about from this year’s festival was a film called Catfish. The unassuming title did not do much to catch my attention initially, and since the film screened under the Documentary Spotlight, I am guessing that a lot of other people probably overlooked it as well. However, it started to build buzz and ended up getting picked up by Rogue Pictures, which is strange, because they are generally known for horror films. Now that they’ve released the first ...
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05.19.10Hot Docs: Teenage Paparazzo Review Sean | Film Festivals, Reviews | (2)If you thought Adrian Grenier’s role on the HBO series Entourage blurred the line between fiction and reality in strange and amusing ways, well, you ain’t seen nothing yet. When he’s not busy playing movie star Vincent Chase, Grenier has been making a name for himself as a documentary director and producer over the past decade. In 2002, he filmed a personal road trip to meet his father for the first time, turning it into the feature-length documentary Shot in the Dark. His follow-up project, Teenage Paparazzo, finds him turning the camera outward to focus on someone else, while simultaneously ...
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05.19.10Hot Docs: The People vs. George Lucas Review Sean | Film Festivals, Hot Docs, Reviews | (5)Over the past decade or so, we have been subject to a never ending wave of documentaries about fans and fan culture, largely produced by fans themselves. The majority of them are ultimately self-serving and shoddily produced, but every now and then one of them manages to rise above the rest and prove itself to be something more. The People vs. George Lucas is not one of those films. Don’t get me wrong — a lot of people will definitely be entertained on a surface level, but but as an insightful look at the lasting appeal of Star Wars, the ...
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04.26.10Rush: Beyond the Lighted Stage Trailer Sean | Film Festivals, Hot Docs, Trailers | (13)Hot Docs is less than a week away now, and we just got a hold of the official trailer for one of the opening night films, Rush: Beyond the Lighted Stage. From directors Sam Dunn and Scot McFadyen (Metal: A Headbanger's Journey, Global Metal), I think it's safe to assume that this will be the definitive look behind Canada's legendary prog rock pioneers. They may not have a reputation as the coolest band in the world, but other musicians have always worshiped them, and the trailer clearly shows that there will be no shortage of big name rock stars talking ...
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04.06.10Casino Jack and the United States of Money Trailer Sean | News, Trailers | (2)Apple.com has the official trailer for Alex Gibney's latest film, which premiered at Sundance earlier this year and will hit select theatres on May 7th. Casino Jack and the United States of Money is about Jack Abramoff, a former DC lobbyist who successfully bribed a number of government officials and scammed Indian casino owners out of a ridiculous amount of money, before being sent to jail for 4 years. Clearly, if anyone is qualified to tackle this story, it's the guy who directed Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room. There is also a fictional take on Casino Jack headed ...
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03.29.10Freakonomics Documentary to Finally Surface at Tribeca Film Festival Sean | Film Festivals, News | (2)I've been wondering for a while now what happened to the Freakonomics documentary that was announced back in 2007. Based on the best-selling book by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner, it had an all-star line-up of documentary directors each signed on to direct different segments of the film including Morgan Spurlock (Super Size Me), Alex Gibney (Taxi to the Dark Side), Rachel Grady and Heidi Ewing (Jesus Camp), Eugene Jarecki (Why We Fight) and Seth Gordon (The King of Kong). As a fan of the book and many of these filmmakers, I was really looking forward to it. At ...
