Shiny Things Distract Me!

Katharine Hepburn’s four Oscars. I found this picture on Flicker so I have no idea when or where it was taken. I’m just a sucker for Oscars and plus, it’s shiny things…..

Riveting Tales for Dark Days

January 30, 2009
By DAVID CARR 

IN journalistic circles it’s called “playing off the ball.” While the rest of the country was riveted by a one-of-a-kind inauguration and the first days of the new presidency, I was at the Sundance Film Festival, the Academy Awards nominations and the Screen Actors Guild awards. My peers were teasing out [...]

Model T’s, Tennis Balls and a White Piano

A flood of childhood memories flows through my brain every time I drive on Talbot Lane. Monday morning I took the road again to my doctor’s office.
I used to watch my relatives drive go-carts around the grounds of what later became known as ‘Rancharrah’ on Easter and the Fourth of July.
I distinctly remember [...]

Tears of Jealousy

I didn’t know that much about the movie ‘The Reader’ until I recently read an in-depth synopsis of the film. Yes, it contained all the spoilers, but I wanted to know what all the hype was about.
I unofficially picked Kate Winslet to win best actress this year, but I just wanted to know more [...]

And the Ballots go to … 5,810 Oscar Voters

The ballots are in the mail for the 5,810 members of Hollywood’s elite who get to vote on the Academy Awards.
Wednesday’s final ballots include nominees in 19 categories, among them best picture, director and the four acting prizes.
Ballots in five other categories — feature-length and short documentaries, foreign-language film, animated shorts and live-action shorts — [...]

Actors Union Gives up Strike Vote Plans

The Screen Actors Guild has suspended plans for a strike authorization vote.
A hard-line faction within the union and the guild’s president say the vote was likely to fall short of the 75% support needed to pass.
The Hollywood group of actors, led by guild president Alan Rosenberg, is also recommending sending the movie studios’ final three-year [...]

Subtle Signs of the Economy

With the unemployment rate ever growing across Nevada, I was interested to see how the rich community of Park City, Utah was doing during my annual Sundance vacation.
I was somewhat surprised at the results.
At first it looked as if nothing had happened: restaurants were still crowded, streets were filled with traffic, and hotels brimmed [...]

Sundance Honors `Push,’ `We Live in Public’

The Sundance Film Festival’s prizes for best U.S. drama have gone to “Push” — the dark yet hopeful story of a young woman finding her way out of nightmarish circumstances in 1980s Harlem.
“Push,” based on the 1996 novel by the poet Sapphire and directed by Lee Daniels, won both the grand jury and audience awards. [...]

Didn’t Sell Your Film at Sundance? Hang In…

The Sundance Film Festival may be over for ‘09, but, like everything in life, things aren’t ever really over… 

The wind-whipped Sundance banners are coming down for another year, and, according to The New York Times, more filmmakers are departing Park City for LA, not with suitcases stuffed with swag, but with saggy shoulders, knit brows and several urgent, [...]

Celebrating 25 Years of Independence