Archive for August, 2012
Opening Night Film Announced!
Check out this article in the Columbia Daily Tribune about the festival.
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A tribute to Ida Lupino from Florian
The Audacity of Ida Lupino English-born actress Ida Lupino displayed early evidence of the audacity and grit that led her to carve out a career as a woman director very soon after she arrived in Hollywood. She was one of the few actresses to successfully negotiate freelance opportunities in her studio contracts, and had the chutzpah in 1933 to audition for and gain the lead role in her breakout film “The Light that Failed” although she hadn’t been on the list ...
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Another List . . . Sigh
Last week I was so excited about the new list of filmmakers to watch with the Filmmaker Magazine’s 25 New Faces of Independent Film 2012. But the honeymoon was short lived, because this week the new Sight and Sound Poll of the “Greatest Movies of All Time” was released. This is a list that comes out every decade, and as Roger Ebert noted back in 2002, "it is by far the most respected of the countless polls of great movies--the only ...
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