Today is National Coffee Day, the annual celebration of everyone’s favorite morning pick-me-up. Obviously, coffee has been featured in a seemingly infinite amount of movies, but the drink has never been treated with more cinematic reverence than in Jim Jarmusch‘s…
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David Fincher, Fight Club Provoke Again
David Fincher and “Fight Club” have done it again! While promoting the upcoming “Gone Girl,” the filmmaker made a reference to “Fight Club” and why audiences go to the movies that’s watercooler-worthy for film fans.
Read more →Director Sean Durkin Chats Up Martha Marcy May Marlene
The rumbling on this Tuesday in late August came out of nowhere, shaking the hotel like a wooden paint stirrer in a blender. Writer-director Sean Durkin, attending a press day for to promote his film Martha Marcy May Marlene, darted…
Read more →Evan Glodell Maxes Out on Bellflower
Apocalypse…POW! You know that any movie that starts with a quote from Lord Humongous, the monstrous goalie mask-wearing bad guy from The Road Warrior, isn’t going to be a quaint rom-com. Bellflower isn’t. The film has been buzzed about in the…
Read more →Miranda July Contemplates The Future
Poor Paw Paw. Paw Paw, a cat, is at the vet’s office with an injured paw. Paw Paw now has to wait 30 days to be moved into the apartment of his new human owners. Sophie and Jason are the…
Read more →Lebanon, PA: Interview with Director Ben Hickernell
The independent film trenches are fraught with war stories. Some have unhappy endings, with directors overwhelmed with the demands they encounter, and the finished film—if it gets completed—sometimes turns out nothing like their original version. One common scenario has a…
Read more →Don Argott & The Art Of The Steal
Sounds like a caper film from the distant past. An international production, perhaps, starring the likes of Michael Caine, Lino Ventura and Claudia Cardinale, in which a group of cons with distinctively different backgrounds team together to rip off some…
Read more →Lynn Shelton & Humpday
It was at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival that Humpday came out. That is, it came out for people to see—and out of the closet, so to speak, at the same time. The response was positive enough to snag the…
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