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The academics are running the asylum.

By Vadim Rizov on 10/28/2009
Filed under: Festivals

On her way out at Spout, Karina Longworth noted a few days ago that the film blogosphere can feel like "hundreds of traffic-chasers, who are essentially blaring the same thing, at the same time, all day long." She doesn't like it one bit. And such was the attitude Focus Features CEO/Ang Lee's screenwriter James Schamus brought to his keynote speech at the London Film Festival. Noting he preferred to skip the usual topics of "the challenges of our digital future, new distribution models, the threat of piracy, etc. etc.," Schamus proceeded to deliver a solid hour of political deconstructionist theory... MORE »

"The Class" opens New York.

By Alison Willmore on 07/15/2008
Filed under: Festivals

This year's New York Film Festival will open with the North American premiere of Laurent Cantet's "The Class" (Entre les murs), or so my inbox tells me. "The Class," the stealth late entry that managed to win the Palme d'Or at Cannes, is about a year in an inner city high school, and is one of the few competition films I didn't get to catch, so I'm pleased as rum punch to see that it'll be at the festival. From the release: Additionally, two showcases at the Film Society's Walter Reade Theater will round out the festival's main line-up with... MORE »

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