Every week, the CriticWire Survey asks a select handful of film and TV critics two questions and publishes the results on Monday morning. (The answer to the second, “What is the best film in theaters right now?” can be found at the end of this post.)
This week’s question: This past weekend saw the release of “Lights Out,” which is based on a horrifying short film. Shorts can have tremendous value, though even the best of them tend to fly under the radar. What is your favorite short film, and why?
Miriam Bale (@mimbale), freelance
I count this Resnais film about plastics, “La chant de la styrene,” and an industrial film by Les Blank about factory farm chickens, “Chicken Real,” among the best films, and certainly best docs, I’ve seen. And the Safdies’ short “John’s Gone” is probably my favorite of their movies, if not their best.
This week’s question: This past weekend saw the release of “Lights Out,” which is based on a horrifying short film. Shorts can have tremendous value, though even the best of them tend to fly under the radar. What is your favorite short film, and why?
Miriam Bale (@mimbale), freelance
I count this Resnais film about plastics, “La chant de la styrene,” and an industrial film by Les Blank about factory farm chickens, “Chicken Real,” among the best films, and certainly best docs, I’ve seen. And the Safdies’ short “John’s Gone” is probably my favorite of their movies, if not their best.
- 7/25/2016
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
The Florida premiere of Uruguayan black comedy Mr Kaplan will kick off the Miami Jewish Film Festival, set to run from January 15-29.
The festival closes with the Florida premiere of documentary The Go-Go Boys: The Inside Story Of Cannon Films.
“We couldn’t be more pleased with this year’s festival programme,” said festival director Igor Shteyrenberg.
“Its diversity and artistic uniqueness will delight, surprise, and reward those who share our passion for exploring cinema in all its forms.”
The festival’s 18th edition will present 74 films from 20 countries across eight venues including a free outdoor short film showcase and a drive-in presentation of Israel’s first sci-fi film.
Experimental filmmaker Bill Morrison and composer Michael Gordon will stage an event featuring live music by members of the New World Symphony.
This year there will be a focus on German cinema.
Last year’s edition saw audience attendance grow by 250%. The festival is backed by the...
The festival closes with the Florida premiere of documentary The Go-Go Boys: The Inside Story Of Cannon Films.
“We couldn’t be more pleased with this year’s festival programme,” said festival director Igor Shteyrenberg.
“Its diversity and artistic uniqueness will delight, surprise, and reward those who share our passion for exploring cinema in all its forms.”
The festival’s 18th edition will present 74 films from 20 countries across eight venues including a free outdoor short film showcase and a drive-in presentation of Israel’s first sci-fi film.
Experimental filmmaker Bill Morrison and composer Michael Gordon will stage an event featuring live music by members of the New World Symphony.
This year there will be a focus on German cinema.
Last year’s edition saw audience attendance grow by 250%. The festival is backed by the...
- 1/8/2015
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Queen Demi! Stepping off the stage and into a high-fashion photo shoot, pop rocker Demi Lovato stuns in her new spread for Allure magazine. “We wanted today to be super natural, show my skin, show my freckles,” the “Warrior” singer, 22, said in a behind-the-scenes video (shot by William Morrison) from the shoot. “[I was wearing] barely any makeup, actually. No foundation or anything.” For one of her looks, Lovato wears thigh-high black stiletto boots and a strapless black gown. With her avant-garde black leather gloves that reached [...]...
- 12/17/2014
- Us Weekly
From Focus Features comes the inspirational drama The Theory Of Everything. Starring Eddie Redmayne & Felicity Jones, the opens in select cities this Friday, November 7th.
Starring Eddie Redmayne (“Les Misérables”) and Felicity Jones (“The Amazing Spider-Man 2″), this is the extraordinary story of one of the world’s greatest living minds, the renowned astrophysicist Stephen Hawking, who falls deeply in love with fellow Cambridge student Jane Wilde.
Once a healthy, active young man, Hawking received an earth-shattering diagnosis at 21 years of age. With Jane fighting tirelessly by his side, Stephen embarks on his most ambitious scientific work, studying the very thing he now has precious little of – time. Together, they defy impossible odds, breaking new ground in medicine and science, and achieving more than they could ever have dreamed.
Based on the memoir Travelling to Infinity: My Life with Stephen, director James Marsh went with Icelandic composer and musician Jóhann Jóhannsson...
Starring Eddie Redmayne (“Les Misérables”) and Felicity Jones (“The Amazing Spider-Man 2″), this is the extraordinary story of one of the world’s greatest living minds, the renowned astrophysicist Stephen Hawking, who falls deeply in love with fellow Cambridge student Jane Wilde.
Once a healthy, active young man, Hawking received an earth-shattering diagnosis at 21 years of age. With Jane fighting tirelessly by his side, Stephen embarks on his most ambitious scientific work, studying the very thing he now has precious little of – time. Together, they defy impossible odds, breaking new ground in medicine and science, and achieving more than they could ever have dreamed.
Based on the memoir Travelling to Infinity: My Life with Stephen, director James Marsh went with Icelandic composer and musician Jóhann Jóhannsson...
- 11/7/2014
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
In today's roundup of news and views: David Phelps on Robert Beavers, Richard Kelly on Brad Bird and Ratatouille, Todd Haynes on his forthcoming Carol with Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara, a new short story by Tom Hanks, Glenn Heath Jr. on David Mackenzie, an interview with Mike Hoolboom, more from Reverse Shot on Martin Scorsese, Glenn Kenny on Bill Morrison, Julianne Moore's interview with Sarah Paulson, Charles Isherwood on a play about Billy Wilder and Raymond Chandler writing Double Indemnity, Richard Brody on Alain Resnais's Muriel, remembering Oscar de la Renta, Misty Upham and more. » - David Hudson...
- 10/21/2014
- Fandor: Keyframe
In today's roundup of news and views: David Phelps on Robert Beavers, Richard Kelly on Brad Bird and Ratatouille, Todd Haynes on his forthcoming Carol with Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara, a new short story by Tom Hanks, Glenn Heath Jr. on David Mackenzie, an interview with Mike Hoolboom, more from Reverse Shot on Martin Scorsese, Glenn Kenny on Bill Morrison, Julianne Moore's interview with Sarah Paulson, Charles Isherwood on a play about Billy Wilder and Raymond Chandler writing Double Indemnity, Richard Brody on Alain Resnais's Muriel, remembering Oscar de la Renta, Misty Upham and more. » - David Hudson...
- 10/21/2014
- Keyframe
Edited by Adam Cook
Above: if you are fortunate enough to be in the vicinity of MoMA between now and November 21st, you may want to consider visiting their Bill Morrison exhibition. David Ehrlich of The Playlist interviews Mia Hansen-Løve about her new film Eden, as well as her next project. In a web exclusive piece for Sight & Sound, Michael Pattison writes on experimental films from the London Film Festival and 25Fps in Zagreb:
"All art is by its very nature experimental. In the face of an increasingly standardised narrative cinema, one defining feature of the experimental mode might be miscellany. Festival programmes celebrating ‘experimental cinema’ subsequently accommodate everything from the impenetrably personal to the familiarly abstract.
More than most, when housed together, such works demand an omnivorously receptive sensibility: preferences are fine, but one’s sustained appreciation of this genre seemingly depends upon how long one is able to keep an open mind.
Above: if you are fortunate enough to be in the vicinity of MoMA between now and November 21st, you may want to consider visiting their Bill Morrison exhibition. David Ehrlich of The Playlist interviews Mia Hansen-Løve about her new film Eden, as well as her next project. In a web exclusive piece for Sight & Sound, Michael Pattison writes on experimental films from the London Film Festival and 25Fps in Zagreb:
"All art is by its very nature experimental. In the face of an increasingly standardised narrative cinema, one defining feature of the experimental mode might be miscellany. Festival programmes celebrating ‘experimental cinema’ subsequently accommodate everything from the impenetrably personal to the familiarly abstract.
More than most, when housed together, such works demand an omnivorously receptive sensibility: preferences are fine, but one’s sustained appreciation of this genre seemingly depends upon how long one is able to keep an open mind.
- 10/15/2014
- by Notebook
- MUBI
In today's roundup of goings on in the States and abroad, we gather previews and videos related to a Bill Morrison retrospective, Jon Ronson's documentary on the thousand or so sealed boxes Stanley Kubrick left behind, exhibitions of photographs by Chris Marker and Werner Herzog, a new Super 8 film by Steve McQueen, a series of Argentine cinema programmed by Matías Piñeiro, an exhibition about the artist known as Cameron, a muse for Kenneth Anger and Curtis Harrington, and a series of films by Satyajit Ray. » - David Hudson...
- 10/14/2014
- Fandor: Keyframe
In today's roundup of goings on in the States and abroad, we gather previews and videos related to a Bill Morrison retrospective, Jon Ronson's documentary on the thousand or so sealed boxes Stanley Kubrick left behind, exhibitions of photographs by Chris Marker and Werner Herzog, a new Super 8 film by Steve McQueen, a series of Argentine cinema programmed by Matías Piñeiro, an exhibition about the artist known as Cameron, a muse for Kenneth Anger and Curtis Harrington, and a series of films by Satyajit Ray. » - David Hudson...
- 10/14/2014
- Keyframe
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the New York University Orphan Film Symposium will present this year’s installment of “The Real Indies: A Close Look At Orphan Films,” a two-day screening series on Friday, October 31, and Saturday, November 1, at the Academy Theater in New York City.
The series serves as an opportunity to re-discover and re-appreciate orphan films – rarely seen, previously neglected cinematic works deserving preservation and revival. This eclectic showcase will open on Friday at 7:30 p.m. with the New York premiere of the newly restored 35mm print of the cult horror-comedy classic Spider Baby, written and directed by Jack Hill. Filmmaker William Lustig, known for his low-budget indie horror films, will introduce Hill and Spider Baby, as well moderate a conversation with Hill afterwards.
Filmed in 1964 but not released theatrically until 1968, Spider Baby marked director Hill’s solo debut. Cheekily subtitled “The Maddest Story Ever Told,...
The series serves as an opportunity to re-discover and re-appreciate orphan films – rarely seen, previously neglected cinematic works deserving preservation and revival. This eclectic showcase will open on Friday at 7:30 p.m. with the New York premiere of the newly restored 35mm print of the cult horror-comedy classic Spider Baby, written and directed by Jack Hill. Filmmaker William Lustig, known for his low-budget indie horror films, will introduce Hill and Spider Baby, as well moderate a conversation with Hill afterwards.
Filmed in 1964 but not released theatrically until 1968, Spider Baby marked director Hill’s solo debut. Cheekily subtitled “The Maddest Story Ever Told,...
- 10/10/2014
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Tonislav Hristov’s Love & Engineering is to open the 20th edition of the Visions du Réel documentary film festival.
The film about a Bulgarian computer engineer searching for a formula to create irresistible seductive power for four desperate digital geeks searching for analogue love will open this year’s festival in Nyon, Switzerland tomorrow (April 24). The festival runs from April 25 to May 3.
The German-Finnish-Bulgarian co-production won the Audience Award at DocPoint Helsinki and is set to be screened at Hot Docs Toronto and the Tribeca Film Festival this month.
Nyon’s 2014 edition will see the festival celebrating two anniversaries: in 1969, the Festival international de cinéma Nyon was founded by the later Berlinale director Moritz de Hadeln, and the name change to Visions du Réel was taken by present artistic director Luciano Barisone’s predecessor Jean Perret in 1995
19 feature-length documentaries from 17 countries in the festival’s main competition will be judged by an International Jury comprising UK producer...
The film about a Bulgarian computer engineer searching for a formula to create irresistible seductive power for four desperate digital geeks searching for analogue love will open this year’s festival in Nyon, Switzerland tomorrow (April 24). The festival runs from April 25 to May 3.
The German-Finnish-Bulgarian co-production won the Audience Award at DocPoint Helsinki and is set to be screened at Hot Docs Toronto and the Tribeca Film Festival this month.
Nyon’s 2014 edition will see the festival celebrating two anniversaries: in 1969, the Festival international de cinéma Nyon was founded by the later Berlinale director Moritz de Hadeln, and the name change to Visions du Réel was taken by present artistic director Luciano Barisone’s predecessor Jean Perret in 1995
19 feature-length documentaries from 17 countries in the festival’s main competition will be judged by an International Jury comprising UK producer...
- 4/23/2014
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
A week after revealing their full feature film lineup, the 2014 Tribeca Film Festival today announced its lineup of 58 short films, 29 of which are world premieres. The selections were curated from a whopping 3,074 submissions. The chosen shorts come from a total of 16 countries, including Australia, Austria, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Iceland, India, Iraq, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Scotland, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom. Highlights include the recent 2014 Academy Award-winning Live Action Short, "Helium," and previous Tribeca-winner Edoardo Ponti's latest short, "Human Voice," starring Sophia Loren and shot by Academy Award-winner, Rodrigo Prieto. Other returning filmmakers include Steve James, Bill Morrison, Anita Thacher, and Ondi Timonor. The lineup also features performances by Danny DeVito, Sally Hawkins, and voiceovers by Sigourney Weaver, Steve Buscemi, and Fred Armisen. Recipients of the Tribeca Film Festival’s Best Narrative Short and Best...
- 3/11/2014
- by Nigel M Smith
- Indiewire
The Series
I know that I was not the only Gleek who was sad when Glee Season Three started; three new episodes were aired; and then reruns started up again. To keep my Glee momentum going, I decided to reminisce by popping my new copy of Glee Season Two on Blu-ray into my player.
The Season begins with Mr. Schuester (William Morrison) and the Glee Club kids back from their dismal showing at Sectionals. Wanting to secure a win at Sectionals this year, which would lead them to Nationals in New York City; the Glee Club sets off to find new recruits to join their motley crew.
A couple of notable changes this season are: Quinn (Dianna Agron) is now sans baby bump and is ready to regain her status as McKinley High’s queen bee and Tina (Jenna Ushkowitz) and Artie (Kevin McHale) are no longer as she has...
I know that I was not the only Gleek who was sad when Glee Season Three started; three new episodes were aired; and then reruns started up again. To keep my Glee momentum going, I decided to reminisce by popping my new copy of Glee Season Two on Blu-ray into my player.
The Season begins with Mr. Schuester (William Morrison) and the Glee Club kids back from their dismal showing at Sectionals. Wanting to secure a win at Sectionals this year, which would lead them to Nationals in New York City; the Glee Club sets off to find new recruits to join their motley crew.
A couple of notable changes this season are: Quinn (Dianna Agron) is now sans baby bump and is ready to regain her status as McKinley High’s queen bee and Tina (Jenna Ushkowitz) and Artie (Kevin McHale) are no longer as she has...
- 11/1/2011
- by Kim Derrick-Bene
- Killer Films
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