Showing: FilmLinc Digest
A Doc-Heavy Weekend for NYC
Caveh Zahedi's controversial free-speech test The Sheik and I opens alongside two gentler nonfiction films: one a portrait of Californian adolescents, the other a nocturnal odyssey through New Orleans.
More Year-End Lists & Awards; Slamdance Lineup Announced
The Season is in full swing with awards and lists from the likes of the National Board of Review and John Waters; Slamdance Film Festival announces its roster of independent films; the NYTimes weighs in on the debate over the death of film culture; and much more in today's FIlmLinc Digest!
Oscar Doc Shortlist; Sight & Sound’s Best of 2012
It's only the first week of December, but awards, nominations and year-end lists have already become the main subject of conversation for film fans. We have all of that and much more in today's FilmLinc Digest!
Sundance 2013 Selections; Milos Forman DGA Honor; The State of Romanian Cinema
Today's FilmLinc digest has some exciting news for fans of independent film, a troublesome piece on Romanian film culture, and much more!
“Chasing Ice” Changes Minds; Pickford, Gaye Biopics in the Works
Lily Rabe set to play silent screen legend Mary Pickford and Lenny Kravitz to star as Marvin Gaye in two upcoming productions; Film Society offerings nab 20 Spirit Award nods; plus one woman's impassioned response to the buzzed-about climate change documentary.
IDFA Awards; Early Von Trier Short; Making “Amour”
A round-up of the awards presented at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam, an insightful look into the making of Michael Haneke's NYFF Main Slate Selection Amour, a short Lars von Trier film from over 40 years ago, and more in today's FilmLinc Digest!
Sundance Predictions; Steadicams and PTA
Some early guesses as to what will debut at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival, a fascinating exhibit at The Jewish Museum, a study of mobile camerawork in the films of Paul Thomas Anderson, and more in today's FilmLinc Digest!
White Shadows, Doc Winners, and Italian Weekends
Check out the winners from this year's DOC NYC, learn about TLA Releasing's brand-new Italian branch, and watch an early, rare Hitchcock silent streaming online in today's Filmlinc Digest!
Hamptons Director Steps Down; “The Hobbit” Soundtrack
Stream the official soundtrack of Peter Jackson's The Hobbit, find out what's new at the Hamptons International Film Festival, discover the James Wan-MacGyver connection, and see the latest images from Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained! All in today's FilmLinc Digest...
“Chasing Ice” Opens Strong; Indies at MoMA
Despite a cold weekend for specialty releases one documentary managed to open hot, MoMA and IFP prep their popular "Best Films Not Playing at a Theater New You" series, and an insightful look into the making of one this year's most-loved indies Beasts of the Southern Wild.
