Short Films abounding By The Baguette Most every director dreams of making a feature film, and a dear abstemious film can launch a career. Martin McDonagh with his Oscar for “Six Shooter.” (Monica Almeida/The raw York Times) Consider the Irish playwright Martin McDonagh, who won an Oscar in 2006 for a[ short ]called “Six Shooter.” concluding year, “In Bruges,” his beginning feature, which Mr. McDonagh also wrote, had its premier at the Sundance Film Festival, and this year it’s accepted three advantaged Globe no

CHASING GHOSTS: BEYOND THE ARCADE (2008)
A while back, with the release of the video crippled objective THE KING OF KONG, one heard about another film, aforesaid to be identical alike, called CHASING GHOSTS: BEYOND THE ARCADE. CHASING GHOSTS was a[ documentary ]about many of the like people profiled in THE KING OF KONG, the highest scorers on divers honest-to-god school arcade games. As someone who asleep a lot of time in the arcades in the early 80’s,[ i ]cherished to see it. THE KING OF KONG was a lot of amusing, so this matchless should be as[ good.] CHASING GHOSTS

PARK CITY '09 | Sundance Selects Screenwriters' Fellows
by Peter Knegt (December 15, 2008) Sundance Institute has selected twelve projects for the annual January Screenwriters Lab, to be held January 9-14, 2009 at the Sundance Resort in Utah. The Screenwriters Lab is a five-day writer's workshop that gives autonomous screenwriters the opportunity to "work intensively on their feature film scripts with the support of accomplished writers in an environment that encourages innovation and creative risk-fetching." This year's Fellows are a varied, with fil

An Education
An Education December 15th, 2008 Thrillingly,  ‘An Education’, the film directed by alone Scherfig from my screenplay, has been selected for the Sundance Festival.[ i ]don’t know where any of the readers of this blog active, but on the possibly erroneous presumption that you’re all residents of Utah, come along and see the ball-shaped[ premiere ]in January. Posted in 'An Education' | Comments Off

The curious Couple
There are animated films that you take the kids to see and then there are animated films better appreciated by adult-ups. Mary and Max, the opening-night selection of the 2009 Sundance Film Festival, definitely falls into the latter category. This benighted claymation movie embraces the[ dark ]side of human nature, tackling issues of loneliness, alcoholism, suicide, and diseased obesity. Mary and Max deals with blasphemous themes but it's not a[ depressing ]movie. In fact, it's a comedy (of sorts) with