By Bailey Pennick
One of the most exciting things about the Sundance Film Festival is having a front-row seat for the bright future of independent filmmaking. While we can learn a lot about the filmmakers from the 2024 Sundance Film Festival through the art that these storytellers share with us, there’s always more we can learn about them as people. This year, we...
ROGER CORMAN 1926-2024
Film pioneer and legend Roger Corman died on Saturday. Among other things, Corman was a Telluride tribute recipient in 2012. That afforded me the opportunity to meet him and express my appreciation for what he had done for the universe of film. It was a brief exchange and he graciously accepted my gratitude.
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Nine years after the debut of “Mad Max: Fury Road” in the South of France, George Miller is once again the toast of the Croisette. The audience at the world premiere of the director’s prequel “Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga” went wild for his latest high-octane action film, showering the movie with a six-minute standing […]
What do Cannes competition films “Kinds of Kindness,” “American Horror Story,” “The Iron Claw,” “Hit Man” and “Pitch Perfect” have in common? These are just a smattering of the projects that have utilized Louisiana’s production resources over the decades thanks to the state’s robust incentive program. In the early 1990s, the state recognized the power […]
Reflecting on her illustrious career at Cannes Film Festival, Oscar winner Meryl Streep opened up about one of her most iconic on-screen moments — the shampoo scene from “Out of Africa.” The 1986 Sydney Pollack film starred Streep and Robert Redford as a baroness and a big game hunter who fall in love in a lush […]
On Thursday, May 16, 2024, Idaho Rivers United will be having their 7th annual Wild & Scenic Film Festival On Tour Event at the Alpine Playhouse Theater in McCall, Idaho. Attendees can expect to be treated to a curated film program designed to inspire action for our rivers and fisheries while fueling our passions for […]
Los Angeles-based Scatena & Rosner Films has acquired worldwide rights to horror film “The Hermit,” starring Lou Ferrigno as a cannibalistic pig farmer in his first role playing a creature since CBS TV series “The Incredible Hulk.” They will be launching sales on the chiller, which is now in post, at the Cannes Marché du […]
Italian-born and Texas-based director Roberto Minervini is known for making hard-hitting documentaries that dissect the backwaters of American society, such as his so-called Texas trilogy comprising “The Passage,” “Low Tide” and “Stop the Pounding Heart.” His most recent doc, “What You Gonna Do When the World’s on Fire?,” about a community of Black people in New Orleans during […]
The European audience has voted for the winner of the European Short Film Audience Award for the year 2023–2024. The winner of the award is Tondex 2000 (France, 2023) by Jean-Baptiste Leonetti. After a year on tour, the award was announced at the Brussels Short Film Festival on 27 April. The winner of the ESFAA award is chosen annually from among the national audience award winners of the...
Italian auteur Pietro Marcello – whose 2019 film “Martin Eden” made a splash on the international art-house scene – is shooting “Duse,” a movie about legendary Italian stage diva Eleonora Duse. Valeria Bruni Tedeschi stars as Duse and Noémie Merlant (“Portrait of a Lady on Fire”) plays her daughter. The Match Factory has acquired international […]