A Steady Diet of Film

Grab some bench!

MTV.com ponders: What's An 'Independent Film' These Days? Which is like reading Down and Dirty Pictures with fewer spelling errors and more embarassing references to Nirvana.

USA Today weighs and ranks movie endings.

Ireland teens want more smut and the Berlin Film Fest would be happy to give it to them.

The antidote to Passion of the Christ has been discovered! Richard Gere and Deepak Chopra are teaming up to produce a film about the life of Buddha:

"The film's aim is to raise global awareness about Buddhist philosophy and the Buddha's message of love, compassion and equanimity,"

By the time it's done we'll all be watching movies on our cell phones!

Two films from post-Saddam Hussein Iraq premiere at Rotterdam film fest this week.

Baghdad Blogger, a movie by a well-known Web log writer who calls himself Salam Pax, reveals Iraqi resentment over the U.S. occupation and joy at Saddam Hussein's removal. ... To make the movie Pax got a crash course in filmmaking courtesy of The Guardian, then crisscrossed his country from the marshlands in the south to back alleys controlled by insurgents to capture its rapidly changing landscape with a hand-held digital video camera.

Underexposure by filmmaker Oday Rasheed is Iraq's first feature film since Saddam was toppled in April 2003. Made on the rubble-strewn streets of Baghdad with 1980s-vintage Kodak film recovered from the remains of the former Ministry of Culture building, it tells the stories of lovers, relatives and strangers going about their lives in a city under siege.

See also: Rotterdam Film Festival

Keanu Reeves earns star on Walk of Fame.

"I asked my mom if it was OK to be an actor and she said: 'Whatever you want.' So thanks, Mom."

No, thank you, Keanu! See also: trailer for Constantine.

Somehow I knew MIKE DITKA was involved with keeping Noah Baumbach's Kicking and Screaming from getting a dvd release!

The Simon examines What 'Bad Kid' Movies Say About America:

Americans are deeply ambivalent about children. Adults envy young people their youth, vitality, and physical attractiveness. But they also resent children's intrusions on their time and resources, and frequently fear their passions and drives.

Never has that seemed more pervasive:

posted by Erin @ Tuesday, February 01, 2005