The week on IFC.com
The week on IFC.com: The artificial cult movie, playing yourself and Bruce Campbell.
By Alison Willmore on 11/07/2008
Filed under: The week on IFC.comWhat's been happening on the rest of IFC.com: + List: Pass the Kool-Aid - Five Flicks That Aspired To Cult Status - Can a film like "Repo! The Genetic Opera" aim at and achieve cult status intentionally? Matt Singer examines five examples would indicate that becoming a cult film is something that has to be earned. + Bruce Campbell on "My Name is Bruce" - The B-movie icon famous for playing Ash in the "Evil Dead" movies gives Jean-Claude Van Damme a run for his money by starring as and directing himself in his new meta-comedy. + On DVD: "Billy... MORE »
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The week on IFC.com: Makeup artistry, child vampires and black eyes.
By Alison Willmore on 10/31/2008
Filed under: The week on IFC.comWhat's been happening on the rest of IFC.com: + Video: How to Give Yourself a Black Eye - For Halloween, or just to scare your parents -- makeup artist Rachel Pagani demonstrates how to make your own shiner, + Feature: Puddy In Their Hands - The Experts Speak - Stephen Saito gathers opinions from the pros on their favorite creature and makeup effects work from the history of horror flicks. + Interview: Tomas Alfredson on "Let the Right One In" - Aaron Hillis talks to the director about his vampire/coming-of-age movie, working with child actors and how technology has crushed... MORE »
The week on IFC.com: Catherine Deneuve, comebacks and Ukrainian mustaches.
By Alison Willmore on 10/17/2008
Filed under: The week on IFC.comWhat's been happening on the rest of IFC.com: + Video: Lars Ulrich Loves Indie Film - The Metallica drummer on how '07 was a great year for independent film, his friendship with Thomas Vinterberg and why there's still hope for low-budget cinema. + Feature: Four Actor-Director Duos Who Are Joined at the Hip - Russell Crowe and Ridley Scott aren't the only actor/director pair attempting to be the John Wayne/John Ford of our time. + Interview: Eugene Hütz on "Filth and Wisdom" - Wrangling with the Gogol Bordello frontman over perversity, mustaches and his role in Madonna's directorial debut.... MORE »
The week on IFC.com: Flaming martians, Aki Kaurismäki and Fantasic Fest.
By Alison Willmore on 09/26/2008
Filed under: The week on IFC.comA round-up of what's been happening on the rest of IFC.com: + Interview: Wayne Coyne on "Christmas on Mars" - The Flaming Lips frontman on his first feature, the Large Hadron Collider, "90210" and space ovens. + Interview: Chuck Palahniuk on "Choke" - The "Fight Club" author on the latest adaptation of his work, making people faint and coded security announcements. + On DVD: Aki Kaurismäki's Proletariat Trilogy, "Shadow" - Michael Atkinson on Criterion's new set of three films from the Finnish master of deadpan and a "mysterious and rarely discussed work" from the Polish New Wave. + IFC News... MORE »
The week on IFC.com: Diane English defends "The Women," remaking your own film.
By Alison Willmore on 09/12/2008
Filed under: The week on IFC.comA round-up of what's been happening on the rest of IFC.com: + Interview: Diane English on "The Women" - The director defends softening up George Cukor's 1939 "bitchfest" into a celebration of female friendship. + Review: "Burn After Reading" - Matt Singer calls the Coens' comedy "one of their zaniest, most immature films in the best possible way." + List: Remaking Your Own Foreign Language Film - Five international directors who rehashed their own work in good ol' American English. + Interview: Jamie Kennedy on "Heckler" - The actor/comedian leaps (sort of) into the "does criticism matter" fray and comes... MORE »
The week on IFC.com: In praise of b-movie leads; "Lost"'s Ken Leung.
By Alison Willmore on 08/29/2008
Filed under: The week on IFC.comA round-up of what's been happening on the rest of IFC.com: + List: If the Slipper Fits... Five Cinderella Reinventions - Matt Singer on five more unconventional takes on the Cinderella story, from Leonardo da Vinci as the fairy godmother to a cell phone filling in for a lost slipper. + Interview: Ken Leung on "Year of the Fish" - The New York actor best known for his role on "Lost" talks about superstition, his Chinatown childhood, being an Asian-American actor and his new film "Year of the Fish." + Video: Impact Film Festival at the DNC - IFC's political... MORE »
The week on IFC.com: Azazel Jacobs and The Clash, Woody Allen and sex.
By Alison Willmore on 08/22/2008
Filed under: The week on IFC.comA round-up of what's been happening on the rest of IFC.com: + Feature: An Appreciation of Anna Faris - R. Emmet Sweeney wonders when the comedienne "capable of out-dumbing Judy Holliday and out-ditzing Carole Lombard" will finally get her due. + Feature: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* (in Woody Allen's Movies) - Matt Singer on the 40 years Allen has spent making "movies about sex without ever actually featuring it." + Interview: Azazel Jacobs on "Momma's Man" - The director of the acclaimed Sundance feature starring his real-life parents as something like themselves would rather just talk... MORE »
The week on IFC.com: Fred Durst, aspiring auteur.
By Alison Willmore on 08/15/2008
Filed under: The week on IFC.comIn what will hopefully be a regular Friday thing, I'm going to start listing the week on the site outside of this blog to catch anything that may have slipped through the cracks: + Interview: Fred Durst on "The Longshots" - Aaron Hillis talks with the Limp Bizkit frontman about how he'd like to be taken seriously as a filmmaker. + Interview: Whit Stillman on "Metropolitan" - Stephen Saito caught up with the king of the '90s comedies of mannerlessness to find out what he's been up to in the decade since "The Last Days of Disco." + List: Ten... MORE »
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