The festival runs March 16-26 with venues all around the city including American University, MLK Jr. Memorial Library, National Museum of Natural History, and many other locations. Over 100 films will be screened including recent releases and documentary classics. Among the many titles that caught my eye are The Boys of Baraka, Darwin’s Nightmare, The […]
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How to Film Sharks and Bears and Live to Tell About It
On Tuesday evening, March 21, AU professor and wildlife filmmaker Chris Palmer will be on campus discussing highlights from his career. The program, part of the 2006 Environmental Film Festival, will be held at 7pm in the Butler Board Room, Mary Graydon Center. Mr. Palmer’s enthusiasm and good humor guarantee an evening of entertainment. They […]
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The author of the Reality Film site, who I deduce is a film studies professor at Penn State, has been posting since December 2005. His goals for the site are to have a place to discuss teaching, film and television viewing in a more or less organized manner. His tastes are somewhat mainstream but it’s […]
Continue readingFull Frame Documentary Film Festival, April 6-9
If you can find the time, plan on going to Durham, NC for perhaps the most important documentary festival in the US.Featured this year: Sydney Pollack’s Sketches of Frank Gehry will open the festival. D.A. Pennebaker and Ross McElwee will help honor documentary legend Richard Leacock when he is awarded the 2006 Career Award. There […]
Continue readingDC Independent Film Festival currently underway, March 2-12
“The DC Independent Film Festival showcases world premieres, award winning features, shorts, animation and documentaries by local, national and international filmmakers. “Founded in 1999, the DC Independent Film Festival showcases each year up to 100 features, shorts, animations, and documentaries that represent the best in independent film. These films include ones that have won awards […]
Continue readingMasters of Cinema: Your guide to high-brow cinema on DVD
A group of five contributors with a predilection for serious world cinema sustain this highly-informative site. Bresson, Dreyer, Ozu, and Tarkovsky are among their favorites. Foremost it’s a blog of important and often esoteric DVD releases but it also hosts several good articles focussing primarily on topics related both to cinema and the DVD medium. […]
Continue reading2006 Independent Spirit Awards this weekend
Best Documentary nominees with Media Services call numbers. Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (2005) – DVD 1700 Grizzly Man (2005) – DVD 1682Romántico (2005) – Not yet released on video La Sierra (2005) – DVD 1585Sir! No Sir! (2005) – Not yet released on videolink
Continue readingPBS Frontline Online
PBS currently has fifty-four complete Frontline programs freely-available for streaming on their website. The 2006 releases available include: The Insurgency, The Meth Epidemic, and Country Boys. Frontline World is considered a separate series and that too has many programs freely-available online – about seventy currently. 2006 releases include Columbia: The Coca-Cola Controversy, Brazil: Jewel of […]
Continue readingMidnightEye – Japanese Cinema
If you’re interested in keeping up on everything related to Japanese cinema, be sure and check out MidnightEye.com. This website contains a wealth of information from interviews with contemporary directors, to thoughtful book and movie reviews, to in-depth feature articles. For example, the latest Round-Up covers four of Akira Kurosawa’s early social drama films. Japanese […]
Continue readingInterested in finding film reviews online?
There are two free film-review databases you’ll want to know about, Movie Review Query Engine and Metacritic. MRQE is the more undisciplined of the two, including a wide variety of sources from the credible to the somewhat bizarre. It also includes several precomputed lists of films, the most interesting of which are the listings of […]
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