Read More: Actors Turn up the Heat in 'Black Mass' Leonard Maltin will lead the Jury at the inaugural Coronado Island Film Festival, with special presentations honoring Jack Lemmon and Errol Flynn. The four-day festival will include new films, classic films, parties, panel discussions, a Movies Made in Coronado exhibit and special guest presentations. About 60 films, including juried selections of narrative features, documentaries, shorts (animated and live action) and student films, will be screened from 10am until midnight at venues throughout the village. In addition, five films by filmmakers with strong Coronado connections will be screened, with introductions and Q&As by the filmmakers. Others jurors include: Lisa Bruce (producer, "The Theory of Everything"), who will serve as head juror for narrative films; Academy Award-winner Ira Wohl (director, "Best Boy"), who will serve as head juror for documentaries; and Jim Gallagher (Head of...
- 9/17/2015
- by Sonya Saepoff
- Indiewire
Turner Classic Movies (TCM) will open the 2014 edition of the TCM Classic Film Festival with the world premiere of a brand new restoration of the beloved Rodgers & Hammerstein musical Oklahoma! (1955). TCM’s own Robert Osborne, who serves as official host for the festival, will introduce Oklahoma!, with the film’s star, Academy Award®-winner Shirley Jones, in attendance. Vanity Fair will also return for the fifth year as a festival partner and co-presenter of the opening night after-party. Marking its fifth year, the TCM Classic Film Festival will take place April 10-13, 2014, in Hollywood. The gathering will coincide withTCM’s 20th anniversary as a leading authority in classic film.
In addition, the festival has added several high-profile guests to this year’s lineup, including Oscar®-winning director William Friedkin, who will attend for the screening of the U.S. premiere restoration of his suspenseful cult classic Sorcerer (1977); Kim Novak, who...
In addition, the festival has added several high-profile guests to this year’s lineup, including Oscar®-winning director William Friedkin, who will attend for the screening of the U.S. premiere restoration of his suspenseful cult classic Sorcerer (1977); Kim Novak, who...
- 2/14/2014
- by Melissa Thompson
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
In this remarkable British documentary, the film-maker William Spicer and his journalist sister Kate take their 40-year-old brother Tom from Devon to Los Angeles via Las Vegas to meet his long time idol, Lars Ulrich, the drummer of the heavy metal band Metallica. Tom suffers from fragile X syndrome, what his sister calls "a sort of autism with knobs on", and the journey involves the whole family in complex ways. In last Sunday's Observer, my colleague Kate Kellaway wrote at length about this sensitive, funny, wide-ranging film and its background, and I urge you to read her piece. I can only add that though it inevitably reminds one of Rain Man, the movie it brought to my mind (and compares favourably with) is Ira Wohl's equally personal, wonderfully inspiring Best Boy, which won an Oscar for best documentary in 1979. It's about Wohl's mentally handicapped 52-year-old cousin Philly preparing to...
- 6/9/2012
- by Philip French
- The Guardian - Film News
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