Categories

Awards

• The 2009 Oscars: Liveblogged
• Spirit Awards 2009: Liveblogged
• The 2009 Cinema Eye Nominations
• Gloden Golbes noms.
• Steve Coogan = 2009 Spirit Awards host.

Biz

• SXSW 2009: Reinventing the distribution wheel.
• Product placement.
• Palisades pledges to remain extremely Extreme.
• Red Envelope is sealed.
• Stardom, by the numbers.

Critic watch

• The critic and the pirate.
• The year in top tens.
• Manohla Dargis is mean.
• All thumbs™.
• Same old song?

Critic wrangle

• Critic wrangle: "Frost/Nixon."
• Critic wrangle: "A Christmas Tale."
• Critic wrangle: "Slumdog Millionaire."
• Critic wrangle: "JCVD."
• Critic wrangle: "The Boy in the Striped Pajamas."

Festivals

• "Drag Me To Hell."
• Cannes 2009: "Inglourious Basterds."
• Cannes 2009: "Vincere."
• Cannes 2009: "Kinatay."
• Cannes 2009: "Vengeance."

From the Editor

• David Hudson joins IFC.com.
• Rooftop shorts on the web.
• The stages of grief, as chronicled online.
• Cough to get off.
• In Which Alison Drops The Royal "We"

In quotes

• Selections from David Fincher.
• "When have we ever had the chance to vote for the 'most liberal' of anything?"
• Watch your mouth.
• "I would simply go to the Internet and watch real people having real sex."
• "Oh, Lynch is way weirder than I am."

In the works

• "I'm going to Bollywood!"
• In the works: Opposite George Clooney.
• In the works: David Lynch's new web series.
• The week on IFC.com: Mickey Rourke, soundtracks and post-Iraq road movies.
• "Che" goes to IFC Films.

Memoriam

• Ann Savage, 1921-2008.
• Rudy Ray Moore, 1927-2008.
• David Foster Wallace, 1962-2008.
• September.
• Goodbye, grey market.

Odds

• Odds: It's the shoes.
• August is finally over, and other bits and pieces.
• Odds: "Slumdog Millionaire" finds a distributor, Todd Solondz makes a sequel.
• Odds: "Film is a lying media."
• Odds: "Porno" gets the R, ThinkFilm doesn't need your damn bills.

Reviews

• SXSW 2009: "Sorry, Thanks."
• "Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father."
• "W."
• NYFF 2008: The rest.
• NYFF 2008: "Happy-Go-Lucky."

Rumors

• Jean Claude Van Damme's trying times.
• Remakesploitation.
• "Blindness" is in.
• Del Toro's "little movie" and Miller's adaptation.

Stage

• Kinky! Strange!
• "Brokeback Mountain" becoming an opera.

The week on IFC.com

• The week on IFC.com: The artificial cult movie, playing yourself and Bruce Campbell.
• The week on IFC.com: Makeup artistry, child vampires and black eyes.
• The week on IFC.com: Catherine Deneuve, comebacks and Ukrainian mustaches.
• The week on IFC.com: Flaming martians, Aki Kaurismäki and Fantasic Fest.
• The week on IFC.com: Diane English defends "The Women," remaking your own film.

Trailering

• Where the wild things are trailered.
• Trailering: Heartbreaking memorials, Irish dramas, more superheroes.
• Trailering: Three "Nights."
• Trailering: Sean Penn as St. Harvey Milk.
• Trailering: NYC, Chinatown, the RAF and Auschwitz.

Trendspotting

• "I'm going to Bollywood!"
• Life's like a movie - political edition.
• Holmes, how you've changed!
• Trendspotting: Brownface, bags, polibiopics.

Versus

• Wes Anderson, tumor.
• Tha Lawsuit III.
• Copyright infringement, sadistic streaks and Hitchcock.
• Chris Smith, Todd Solondz and the question of intent.
• Timing is everything.

Watchy

• The Vice Guide to Coffin Joe.
• David Lynch presents Jess.
• "Penises: species specific."
• "I think my heart's big enough..."
• "In a Lonely Place" by way of Atari's "Crystal Castles"...