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The 2009 Cinema Eye Nominations

By Alison Willmore on 01/19/2009

Filed under: Awards

The Cinema Eye Honors are now in their second year of honoring the best in documentary filmmaking, looking as much at craft as subject matter, unlike the lingering tendencies among, say, the Oscars. The 2009 nominees were announced here in Park City this afternoon, with filmmaker and award co-chair AJ Schnack joined by "My Country, My Country"'s Laura Poitras and Joe Berlinger, whose latest film, "Crude," premiered at the festival yesterday. There are some exciting tugs at the boundaries of what's considered nonfiction film in the list below -- most notably Guy Maddin's docu-fantasia "My Winnipeg," which isn't even in... MORE »

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Odds: "Film is a lying media."

By Alison Willmore on 08/15/2008

Filed under: Odds

Werner Herzog could have a solid side career doing Q&As -- we certainly tried our hardest to get him to sit down with Guy Maddin back in June, but their schedules couldn't quite work. At Esquire, Stephen Garrett moderates a conversation between the director and his longtime friend, the subject of "Man on Wire," tightrope artist Philippe Petit: PP: Do you remember the first films you saw? WH: Yes--both of them bad and disappointing. One was about Eskimos building an igloo, and they did a lousy job. And I could tell right away because I had grown up in the... MORE »

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Odds: Untouchable Paris, leaves, Woody Allen's "blackish comedy."

By Alison Willmore on 07/30/2008

Filed under: Odds

Taking photos with Paris Hilton, who was at Comic-Con promoting "Repo: The Genetic Opera," two MTV News staffers found they displayed an identical and apparently instinctive reluctance to actually have to touch the heiress. [MTV] Maybe they'd just watched too much footage from the film, which is directed by "Saw II"-"IV"'s Darren Lynn Bousman, and which, like many a movie monster, looked infinitely better when it was half-imagined -- Defamer has a clip, The New York Times gets around to tackling the topic of self-distribution, with John Anderson starting with the upcoming "Bottle Shock" and moving on to smaller fare... MORE »

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"I played the male, when I am not playing a hermaphrodite."

By Alison Willmore on 04/21/2008

Filed under: In quotes

A tour round the interview circuit: "I am a ham. It makes people laugh when I play the male. So I played the male, when I am not playing a hermaphrodite." —Isabella Rossellini on depicting insect mating habits in "Green Porno," at the New York Times Magazine [Rossellini also discusses the "gigantic genitals" of insects at AMC's Shootout blog.] "My idea of perfect happiness is a healthy family, peace between nations, and all the critics die." — David Mamet at Vanity Fair "[S]ecretly that I am very unhappy to not have two towers being built, because I could offer to... MORE »