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Our Desert Island Movies (photo)

Article: Our Desert Island Movies

This week on the IFC News podcast — we’re, sadly, closing up shop, at least for now and at least in this incarnation. It’s been a wonderful 215 episodes, and we’re very grateful to all of our listeners and to everyone who’s written in to agree with us, disagree with us, take us to task…

"Into Eternity," Reviewed: Gazing Into the Future of Nuclear Waste (photo)

Article: “Into Eternity,” Reviewed: Gazing Into the Future of Nuclear Waste

In a remote area in western Finland, a tunnel that ultimately will be three miles long and 1,600 feet deep is being drilled into the bedrock. The site is called Onkalo, “hiding place,” and when it’s completed, sometime in 2100, it will serve as a permanent resting place for the country’s radioactive waste, a tomb…

"Take Shelter," Reviewed (photo)

Article: “Take Shelter,” Reviewed

Curtis (Michael Shannon), the central figure of Jeff Nichols’ powerful, enigmatic drama “Take Shelter,” is living in the grip of overpowering dread. An Ohio man with a wife, Samantha (Jessica Chastain), a little girl, Hannah (Tova Stewart), who’s deaf, a construction job and a house on the edge of a field, Curtis is plagued with…

"Red State," Reviewed (photo)

Article: “Red State,” Reviewed

Kevin Smith’s personality now looms so large that it can seem inextricable from the films he produces, that buying into his on-screen work means also buying into Team View Askew. Smith has proven himself a mighty wielder of his own personal brand, using podcasts, his Twitter feed, his website, his speaking tours to cement a…

"My Idiot Brother," Reviewed (photo)

Article: “My Idiot Brother,” Reviewed

The cast of “My Idiot Brother” is so overstuffed with talent it almost seems unfair, like the film should be subject to some kind of comedy handicap. Emily Mortimer, Elizabeth Banks and Zooey Deschanel play a trio of sisters leading lives of various complications in New York City. Steve Coogan, Adam Scott and Rashida Jones…

"The Future," Reviewed (photo)

Article: “The Future,” Reviewed

Reviewed at the Sundance Film Festival 2011. Those with tweeness sensitivities should be aware that “The Future,” Miranda July’s long-awaited follow-up to “Me and You and Everyone We Know,” is sporadically and lispingly narrated by a cat, and examines about how stress over the impending arrival of said cat, a rescue animal of uncertain health…

"The Last Mountain," Reviewed (photo)

Article: “The Last Mountain,” Reviewed

Reviewed at the Sundance Film Festival 2011. If you need something new to be incensed about, “The Last Mountain,” a documentary directed by Bill Haney (of 2007′s “The Price of Sugar”), will do the trick nicely. Its outrage of choice is mountaintop removal (MTR) mining, the considerably controversial practice of deforesting and then dynamiting mountain…

"Project Nim," Reviewed (photo)

Article: “Project Nim,” Reviewed

Reviewed at the Sundance Film Festival 2011. If James Marsh’s 2008 “Man on Wire” was Philippe Petit’s tightrope walk by way of “Ocean’s Eleven,” “Project NIM” could be described as the story of Herbert S. Terrace’s chimpanzee study by way of, well, “Splice.” But maybe it’s better summed up by one of the interviewees shrugged…

Michel Gondry's Film Party (photo)

Article: Michel Gondry’s Film Party

He’s manufactured a plausibly ramshackle business in memory loss, introduced the world to “sweding” and has now attempted a transition into the realms of the superhero movie. This week on the IFC News podcast, we look at the visually inventive output of Michel Gondry. DOWNLOAD MP3, 1:08:22 minutes, 62.6 MB SUBSCRIBE iTunes | XML This…

Armond White's Interrupting Kanye Moment (photo)

Article: Armond White’s Interrupting Kanye Moment

At the New York Film Critics Circle awards dinner on Monday, this year’s chairman, Armond White, played a particularly churlish master of ceremonies, making his feelings about some of the group’s choices clear as he introduced each award, going as far as suggesting that perhaps Tony Kushner, who presented the top prize to “The Social…

Trailering: How I Met Your "HappyThankYouMorePlease" (photo)

Article: Trailering: How I Met Your “HappyThankYouMorePlease”

Though it premiered at Sundance last year, “HappyThankYouMorePlease,” the directorial debut of “How I Met Your Mother” star Josh Radnor, is only just getting into theaters on March 4th. A romantic comedy about a group of friends in their late 20s/early 30s struggling with adulthood in New York City (sound familiar?), “HappyThankYouMorePlease” also stars Radnor…

Bill Murray on Sofia Coppola (photo)

Article: Bill Murray on Sofia Coppola

Bill Murray presented Sofia Coppola with a “Special Filmmaking Achievement” award for “Somewhere” at the National Board of Review Awards last night. Vulture has a full transcript of his speech. A selection: I want the best for her because she’s a lady. She acts like a lady, the women in her movies are ladies, they…

Watch Quentin Tarantino's First Film "My Best Friend's Birthday" (photo)

Article: Watch Quentin Tarantino’s First Film “My Best Friend’s Birthday”

Scott Beale of Laughing Squid points out that the surviving 36 minutes (the original 70 minute rough cut was damaged in a fire) of “My Best Friend’s Birthday,” Quentin Tarantino’s first film, are on YouTube, below. The black and white film was shot on 16mm over several years and finished in 1987 — Tarantino directed…

Trailering: John Carpenter's "The Ward" (photo)

Article: Trailering: John Carpenter’s “The Ward”

With this and “Sucker Punch,” we’re just one feature short of a 2011 nubile-girls-in-scary-asylums trend. “The Ward” is the first film from John Carpenter since 2001′s “Ghosts of Mars,” and it stars “All the Boys Love Mandy Lane”‘s Amber Heard as a girl whose stay in a mental institution in the mid-’60s complicated by a…

RZA's Crazy Martial Arts Movie Actually Happening (photo)

Article: RZA’s Crazy Martial Arts Movie Actually Happening

“The Man With The Iron Fist” could be the oddest movie of 2011 — a martial arts flick that Eli Roth co-wrote with RZA, who’s also slated to direct and act in it as “a weapons-making village blacksmith in feudal China,” reportedly alongside Russell Crowe and, according to the IMDb page, Lucy Liu and martial…

Park Chan-wook's iPhone Film (photo)

Article: Park Chan-wook’s iPhone Film

The latest film from Park Chan-wook, Korea’s great chronicler of revenge and its accoutrements, is a short shot entirely on the iPhone 4. According to Mobiledia: The South Korean movie director screened his latest work, a short called “Paranmanjang,” which means “ups and downs” in Korean. The 30-minute fantasy-horror short, shot in collaboration with Park’s…

The State of the Superhero Movie (photo)

Article: The State of the Superhero Movie

The talent getting involved — like Michel Gondry, Darren Aronofsky and others — may be better than ever, but the superhero movie and other comic book adaptations seem to be in a moment of flux, as the studio system runs out of or reboots prominent franchises and struggles with how to adapt more niche series.…

Armond White's Annual "Greater Than" List (photo)

Article: Armond White’s Annual “Greater Than” List

The NY Press‘ Armond White, our favorite contrarian critic, has posted his yearly list of the films he believes are not just underappreciated but better than titles that have the consensus behind them. And he uses math! Or at least a “greater than” symbol. It’s a fascinating summary of White’s frequently confounding and always confrontational…

Michael Caine Impersonates Michael Caine (photo)

Article: Michael Caine Impersonates Michael Caine

“Yours is the most impersonated voice in the business,” muses Michael Parkinson, who interviews Michael Caine in the clip below. Which may be true — back in November, in fact, we posted this clip from the BBC series “The Trip,” in which Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon each demonstrate and then debate over the finer…

"Black Swan" Is Indeed Swans, All the Way Down  (photo)

Article: “Black Swan” Is Indeed Swans, All the Way Down

At The Playlist, Christopher Bell has highlights from the talk Darren Aronofsky gave last night at the Film Society of Lincoln Center, the culmination of a retrospective of his pre-”Black Swan” work. Particularly of interest is the explanation of the film’s unique sound design: Many sound effects in the picture were a manipulation of a…

If "Freaks and Geeks" Made It One More Season (photo)

Article: If “Freaks and Geeks” Made It One More Season

The 18 episodes that make up the entirety of “Freaks and Geeks” represent one of the most heartbreaking show cancellations in memory. (You can find the detailed write-ups of each episode Matt Singer and I did here.) While the creators and cast hardly dropped from the face of the earth after the show ended, it’s…

The Moments of 2010 (photo)

Article: The Moments of 2010

Moving Image Source has made an annual tradition of gathering from their contributors, but also artists, writers and others, their pick for the “moving image moment or event” of the year. What makes this list so interesting is that it ranges far past just the movies, to include videos on the web, TV shows, news…

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