7/28/10,
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This review was originally published as part of indieWIRE?s coverage of the 2010 Sundance Film Festival. "Smash His Camera" opens in select theaters July 30th. The legacy of the paparazzo has never been a pretty one, but Leon Gast's "Smash His Camera" boldly suggests its artistic merits. Granted, his subject--quintessential New York photographer Ron Galella--has been around a lot longer than today's combative TMZ cameramen, but he's got a few battle ... 
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7/28/10,
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After picking up the film at last year's Toronto International Film Festival, Sony Pictures Classics held back Aaron Schneider's "Get Low" so as to not let it get lost in a late 2009 awards slate that was already quite stacked for the distributor. Ten months later, the alternative plan - a late summer release with assumed hopes of some crossover success and perhaps a 2010 awards push - is about to ... 
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7/27/10,
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IFC Films hosted a special screening of director Ruba Nadda's (left) Toronto and Tribeca Film Festivals feature, "Cairo Time," starring Oscar-nominee Patricia Clarkson and Alexander Siddig (pictured) Tuesday night in New York. Following the screening, guests dined at the Plaza Athenee and chatted with the stars who were among the last to head out. The romantic drama centers on Juliette (Clarkson), a beautiful American abroad in Egypt, who finds herself enamored ... 
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7/27/10,
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The Cinereach Project at Sundance Institute released the names of the eleven projects they are supporting, through grants for development, production, or post-production. The $1.5 million, three-year initiative is a joint collaboration between the Sundance Institiute and Cinereach, and was created to support documentary and narrative features that tackle themes that provoke global cultural exchange. In addition to receiving grants, the projects' collaborators will benefit from working alongside artists from the ... 
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7/27/10,
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The city of Sarajevo is no stranger to conflict. In order to avoid a potential conflict of its own this year, the Sarajevo Film Festival moved its August dates to July to avoid the early start of Ramadan. In this first of two reports from the 2010 Sarajevo Film Festival, I will concentrate on the idea of conflict and what it means to the programming of this festival. The second will ... 
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7/27/10,
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Some of this year's most enlightening investigative docs and two packages from Criterion join several other specialty releases on the small screen this week. Two social issue docs debut on the TV this week: tonight, PBS's POV has Geoffrey Smith & Roberto Hernández's "Presumed Guilty" and next Monday, HBO debuts "Jesus Camp" filmmakers Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady's "12th & Delaware" (criticWIRE rating: A-). In "Presumed Guilty," two Mexican attorneys, using ... 
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7/27/10,
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The Toronto International Film Festival has announced that Robert Redford, Michael Winterbottom, Julian Schnabel, Darren Aronofsky, Francois Ozon, John Cameron Mitchell and Mark Romanek are officially just a few of the directors who will be screening their latest works during their upcoming 35th edition. From the Hyatt Regency on King Street in Toronto - next door to the nearly complete new festival headquarters, the Bell Lightbox - festival co-directors Cameron Bailey ... 
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7/26/10,
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Director Quentin Lee and star Karin Anna Cheung party hard at the party for their film "The People I've Slept With," which closed the New York Asian-American International Film Festival last week. The film follows Cheung's nymphomaniac character, Angela, as she tries to figure out who is the father of her unborn child. The film will be self-distributed by Lee beginning in New York next month, with a small multi-city cities to follow. [Photo credit: Bryce J. Renninger/indieWIRE] 
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7/26/10,
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Though the big news from Comic-Con may have been the bizarro story of a man stabbing another fan with a pen in the convention's fabled Hall H (where higher profile film and television is touted), the studios did indeed get to showcase the latest and greatest of their fanboy/girl fare to a receptive crowd of admirers. After the scuffle over the stabbing, Universal showed off their road comedy "Paul" from Simon ... 
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7/26/10,
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New York, NY, July 26, 2010--A few weeks back I found myself standing with Kevin Smith on the lawn of the Land's End Inn in Provincetown, MA. It had been quite awhile since we'd crossed paths and we started chatting about the recent successes of the Mumblecore filmmakers. Kevin had a lot to say and I quickly fumbled for my iPhone to record our conversation. This week's column is being handed ... 
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