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The Indie Filmmaker that Could – JP Allen
“Sex and Imagining” hits #21 on Amazon on Demand
Deliriously Jen – now for HTML5 compiant browsers and mobile devices
“Deliriously Jen” went over EXTREMELY well at the Castro Theatre on June 18th & 26th as part of 29th GLTB Film Festivals “Fun In Boys Shorts” program.
It’s now a veteran of many a film festival. Hopefully it’ll soon be officially available through a few other sites soon.
Carpetbagger: A New Crop of Sundance Films
The competitive slate for this year’s festival has far fewer big names than last year’s star-studded mix.
Unsinkable Captain of Spoofs
From “The Poseidon Adventure” to “Airplane!,” how Leslie Nielsen became an all-purpose embodiment of the parodic principle itself.
Question for Big Film: It’s Not a Comedy?
The trailer for “Cowboys & Aliens,” a $100 million film due next year, is getting laughs. But its director says it is a serious western.
James Franco and Anne Hathaway to Host the Oscars
The choice is an apparent bid to attract younger viewers to the telecast.
Film: That’s Me on Screen, but I Still Didn’t Do It
The real estate millionaire Robert Durst, the women he may have killed and the man he did are examined in Andrew Jarecki’s film “All Good Things.”
The Professor of Micropopularity
James Schamus of Focus Features makes the most successful “small” movies around. His secret? Spiking the mainstream with just a touch of weird.
The Oft-Examined Life
Some of the material in these essays, a follow-up to “I Feel Bad About My Neck,” is familiar, but it gets spicier in each iteration.
Those Undulating Swan Arms? Not So Easy to Do
Natalie Portman trained hard for the role of lead ballerina in Darren Aronofsky’s “Black Swan,” a psychological thriller centered on a performance of “Swan Lake.”
