Rooftop Films is a nonprofit, New York-based outdoor film festival series; among the ways they support filmmakers is renting movie projectors. And in 2007 they got a call from a lady named Marie Castaldo who wanted to rent equipment for her Queens International Film Festival. "We gave her a discount," Rooftop Films Program Director Dan Nuxoll told Indiewire, "but we never got a deposit. She ...
Eden Umble has joined the Napa Valley Film Festival (NVFF) as marketing director.
Todd McCarthy Rodney Ascher's doc investigates the hidden meanings in Stanley Kubrick's 1980 horror film "The Shining." read more
TORONTO - Critics may adore it, but British director Paddy Considine knows his feature-length debut "Tyrannosaur" is not everyone's cup of tea.
In a world of HD video, 1080p resolution televisions and 3-D movies, film stock and splicers seem as anachronistic as a telephone switchboard. Yet they remain the tools of the trade for the tiny group of filmmakers showing off their wares at this weekend’s the 8 Fest, a film festival dedicated to Super 8, 8mm and 9.5mm film. “Super 8 cries out for its possess festival,” says Andrew James Paterson ...
The Psychotronic Film Festival continues Jan. 26 with the Georgia premiere of the documentary "Everyday Sunshine: The Story of Fishbone.
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Iran scored its first foreign language film Oscar nomination in 14 years on Tuesday dominating a field of movies with subjects ranging from Jewish refugees in wartime Poland to corruption in the Flemish beef industry. "A Separation", Iranian director's Asghar Farhadi's searing domestic drama, also scored a nod for best original screenplay, boosting the movie's chances for ...
Celebrating 30 years of festivals, the event also contains a minifestival, the U.S. Super 8 Film and Digital Video Festival.
Oscars organizers unveiled Wednesday a shortlist of nine foreign language movies vying for an Academy Award next month, including an Iranian film which won a Golden Globe at the weekend.
Ten years ago today, a vast, invaluable trove of movie history was capriciously close down. Executives at the Museum of Modern Art ordered the closing of its Film Stills Archive, a collection of some 4 million photographs documenting more than a century of movies, performers and directors. On the morning of Jan. 11, 2002, Mary [...]