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Podcasts: July 2008 Archives
Has Comic-Con Nuked the Fridge?
By Alison Willmore on 07/28/2008
125,000 fans and fanboys struggled their way through traffic jams and back home through epic airport delays in order to attend the just-wrapped Comic-Con 2008. But amidst all the movie hype, some attendees grumbled that this was the year the convention finally lost sight of the comic books it was actually started to showcase. This week on the IFC News podcast, we look at what's changed for Comic-Con, why it's gotten so much press attention this year and which movies everyone's been talking about. Download: MP3, 32:17 minutes, 29.5 MB Subscribe to the podcast: [iTunes] [XML] Panel footage from Comic-Con:"The... MORE »
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Squandering Comedic Talent
By Alison Willmore on 07/21/2008
Filed under: PodcastsFinding a good vehicle for a great comedian can be tough -- the ability to be funny doesn't always come hand in hand with the ability to act, and the film needs to work with a comedian's persona and particular strengths. A few recent or upcoming films have done brilliantly bad jobs of this -- most notably "Run Fatboy Run," with Simon Pegg, but to a lesser extent "The Rocker" with Rainn Wilson and "Hamlet 2" with Steve Coogan. This week on the IFC News podcast, we look at ten past films that have, in different ways, squandered the comedic... MORE »
From Screen! To Stage! To Screen!
By Alison Willmore on 07/14/2008
Filed under: PodcastsOnce upon a time, successful musicals went from the stages of Broadway or the West End to Hollywood for lavish film adaptations, yielding everything from "Oklahoma!" to, more recently, "Dreamgirls" and this week's "Mamma Mia!" But it's become just as common for movies to inspire musical theater productions -- hello, "Xanadu" -- with sometimes more dubious results. This week on the IFC News Podcast, we look at the musical world of stage-to-screen, screen-to-stage, and that rare but growing category of screen-to-stage-to-screen, suggest films that would make great or terrible Broadway shows, and wonder why anyone every greenlit "Carrie - The... MORE »
Is the Sky Really Falling on Independent Film?
By Alison Willmore on 07/07/2008
Filed under: PodcastsA few weeks ago, former Miramax president Mark Gill gave a speech at the L.A. Film Festival's Financing Conference about the dire future of indie film ("Yes, the sky really is falling," he assured) that got everyone talking. The speech can be read online here. This week on the IFC News podcast, we discuss THINKFilm's issues, the closing of Warner Independent and Picturehouse and the other events that have lead up to this glum pronouncement, and whether things really are as bad as Mr. Gill claims. Download: MP3, 30:01 minutes, 27.4 MB Subscribe to the podcast: [iTunes] [XML]... MORE »
