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My Camera on the ‘Nowhere’ Classroom

This project started when my 12-year-old daughter became physically sick from the anxiety and pressures she was feeling around school. In 7th grade, s...

MP Covers 2010 Toronto International Film Festival

Moving Pictures covers the  2010 Toronto International Film Festival with film reviews and feature articles. 

IFTA Lists its 30 Most Significant Independent Films

Marking its 30th anniversary, IFTA has selected the 30 Most Significant Independent Films produced over the past three decades.  IFTA’s 27-mem...

BFI Unveils London Film Festival Program

The program for the 54th BFI London Film Festival (Oct. 13-28) includes 197 features and 112 shorts, including 11 world premieres.

Piers Handling Highlights Films to Watch at TIFF 2010

TIFF director/CEO shares his picks of films that stand out as particularly intriguing. “The Vincent Gallo film ‘Promises Written in Water,’ which is a...

Toronto Fest’s Momentous 2010

It’s a momentous year for the Toronto International Film Festival (Sept. 9 – 19). Not only is the fest celebrating its milestone 35th anniversary, but...

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My Camera on the ‘Nowhere’ Classroom

This project started when my 12-year-old daughter became physically sick from the anxiety and pressures she was feeling around school. In 7th grade, s...

MP Covers 2010 Toronto International Film Festival

Moving Pictures covers the  2010 Toronto International Film Festival with film reviews and feature articles. 

Piers Handling Highlights Films to Watch at TIFF 2010

TIFF director/CEO shares his picks of films that stand out as particularly intriguing. “The Vincent Gallo film ‘Promises Written in Water,’ which is a...

Toronto Fest’s Momentous 2010

It’s a momentous year for the Toronto International Film Festival (Sept. 9 – 19). Not only is the fest celebrating its milestone 35th anniversary, but...

Stream of Consciousness Cinema: ‘La commedia’

I don't know anything. Is cinema a subjective or objective experience? A few hours from getting on a train to Venice from Florence, my hometown away f...

‘White Wedding’ Awakening

It’s in part from obstacles and issues we’ve confronted through our triangular, multi-cultural and multi-racial friendship that “White Wedding” comes....

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PHOTO GALLERY: Los Angeles Film Festival 2010 - "Animal Kingdom"

Ewan McGregor, Jacki Weaver, James Frecheville, David Michôd, Sullivan Stapleton and Andy McPhee at the red carpet screening of "Animal Kingdom."

PHOTO GALLERY: Los Angeles Film Festival 2010 - "Bitter Feast"

Joe Maggio, Peter Phok, Larry Fessenden, Brent Kunkle, Ti West, Amy Seimetz and Seth Anderson at the red carpet screening and Q&A of "Bitte...

PHOTO GALLERY: Los Angeles Film Festival 2010 - "Cyrus"

Marisa Tomei, John C. Reilly, Jonah Hill, Catherine Keener, Mark Duplass, Jay Duplass, Katie Aselton, Matt Walsh, Marisol Nichols, Jesse Williams an...

Going the Distance
Date flick suffers from jarring transitions between vulgarity and optimistic love
The American
Sublime thriller delivers fantastic acting and magnificent vistas
Machete
Hyper-stylized mayhem and guns-blazing machismo for cult-movie fans
DVD Releases — September 2010
Summer bombs, documentary hits and a blockbuster superhero
‘You Again’
The director and cast reflect on high school anxieties and the work
2010 Toronto International Film Festival
Live coverage includes reviews, portraits and exclusive interviews
 
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Interviewer: Elliot V. Kotek
Videography: F.J. Productions

Movie: Last Train Home
Director: Lixin Fan

Documentary filmmaker Lixin Fan discusses the social realities of the Chinese family he followed for three years in his film “Last Train Home.” The film, a directorial debut for Fan, tells the story of a family who, like millions across China, moved away from the countryside to pursue factory jobs in big cities.
 

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Lovely, Still

Somewhere in heaven, the great Alfred Hitchcock is grinning with pride at Nebraska’s newest prodigy, Nik Fackler. It’s hard to believe that “Lovely, S...

Something’s Gonna Live (documentary)

Documentarian Daniel Raim has been working on this portrait of Hollywood production designers for more than a decade. The project started with “The Ma...

Genius Within: The Inner Life of Glenn Gould (documentary)

“Behind every silver lining there’s a cloud.” So goes Glenn Gould’s personal motto. It’s a fitting commentary on Gould’s tragic descent into depressio...

Bran Nue Dae

This funny and poignant musical about aboriginal communities in the 1960s deals with a young boy's journey of self-discovery as he traverses the Aus...

White Wedding

This is a gentle comedy as much about friendship as it is about romantic relationships. “White Wedding” follows Elvis (writer-producer Kenneth Nkosi) ...

Mesrine: Public Enemy #1

In the masterful conclusion to his two-part biopic of notorious 1970s French gangster Jacques Mesrine, Jean-François Richet again begins at the end. I...

A Woman, a Gun and a Noodle Shop (San qiang pai an jing qi)

Watching a criminal cover his tracks at the scene of his crime has to be one of the guiltiest pleasures to be had at the movies. From wiping down trac...

DVD Releases — September 2010

”Babies,” “Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky,” “Frozen,” “Get Him to the Greek,” “Iron Man 2,” “John Rabe,” “Just Wright,” “The Killer Inside Me,” “...

Machete

“Machete” began life as a mock trailer, appearing as part of the Quentin Tarantino-Robert Rodriguez collaboration “Grindhouse.” With no obligation to ...

 News & Views

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IFTA Lists its 30 Most Significant Independent Films

Marking its 30th anniversary, IFTA has selected the 30 Most Significant Independent Films produced over the past three decades.  IFTA’s 27-mem...

BFI Unveils London Film Festival Program

The program for the 54th BFI London Film Festival (Oct. 13-28) includes 197 features and 112 shorts, including 11 world premieres.

Sony Classics Acquires 'Barney's Version'

Sony Pictures Classics announced Wednesday it has acquired U.S. rights to “Barney’s Version.” The film is In Competition at the Venice Film Festival a...

Telluride Unwraps Sked on Eve of Festival

Telluride Film Festival announced its complete 2010 festival program on Thursday. Included are 24 new feature films presented by their creators in the...

Spirit Awards Set for Feb. 26

Film Independent has set Feb. 26 as the date for the 26th Independent Spirit Awards. The time and location for next year’s event will be announced at ...

Roadside Gets Toronto Doc 'Cool It'

Roadside Attractions has acquired U.S. rights to filmmaker Ondi Timoner’s documentary “Cool It.” The film will have its world premiere at the 2010 Tor...

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Geoffrey Rush - "Bran Nue Dae"

Geoffrey Rush, star of the musical "Bran Nue Dae," talks about seeing the stage production of Jimmy Chi's musical, "Father Benedictus" and the people ...

Johnnie To - 'Vengeance'

“Vengeance” is, indeed, what the film is about: that of Francis Costello, a retired professional killer who wants to avenge the deaths of his daughter...

Ruba Nadda, Alexander Siddig and Patricia Clarkson - 'Cairo Time'

“Cairo Time” is the story of the unexpected love between the wife of a Canadian diplomat who is forced to travel to Egypt and the man who hosts her up...

 

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