And Michel Hazanavicius and his film The Artist take one more step towards total awards dominance. The film has topped critic lists since it premiered at Cannes in May of 2011, and in the past couple weeks has become an awards juggernaut. Last weekend The Artist won the PGA award for best picture of 2011,…
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Here's your best indicator yet as to what the crop of nominations for the Best Picture Oscar is likely to be. The Producers Guild of America (PGA) has announced its nominations for 2011 awards, which will be doled out on January 21. The ten films nominated for the PGA's top honor include expected pictures such…
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Every single year come awards season, it's always upsetting to see the blatant misfires on the Academy's short list of films eligible for the Best Documentary Oscar. Just last year, the big story wasn't so much that Exit Through the Gift Shop or Restrepo were up for the award, it was that films like Catfish,…
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One of the most talked-about documentaries at this year's Sundance was Project Nim, director James Marsh's follow-up to 2008's acclaimed Man on Wire. The film centers around a chimp named Nim Chimpsky, who was the subject of a famous animal language acquisition experiment in the 1970s. Nim was raised from infancy as a human child…
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'From the director of Man on Wire' is all a film needs to get my attention, and Project Nim definitely does not look like it is going to disappoint. The film, which explores the relationship between man and other species through the lens of a loose experiment designed to teach sign language to a chimp,…
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Everyone's talked ad nauseam about how the summer of 2011 is going to be a blockbuster bloodbath. Week after week of high concept, big budget sequels featuring superheroes, robots and wizards. But those aren't the only movies that'll be playing at your local theater during the long, hot months of May, June, July and August.…
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Does someone have a case of the Mondays? We understand. Going back to work sucks but while you probably had the weekend off, Slashfilm hasn't stopped working. If you can call watching movies non-stop working. Myself, Peter Sciretta and David Chen have been all over Park City Utah at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival which…
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Director James Marsh wowed critics and audiences and scored an Academy Award for his marvelous 2008 documentary Man on Wire (Marsh went on to direct one of the Red Riding films). That’s why I was psyched to learn that his newest documentary, Project Nim, would be opening the 2011 Sundance Film Festival. Project Nim, which centers…
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We're just a few days away from the start of the 2011 Sundance Film Festival, but distributors are already scooping up films left and right. Three were acquired Tuesday and two were grabbed a few days ago. A&E IndieFilms picked up the rights to the Roger Corman documentary Corman's World: Exploits of a Hollywood Rebel,…
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The announcement of the movies playing the 2011 Sundance Film Festival is like looking into our film futures. It's December and most movie fans are looking back at the last 12 months, picking out award winners, writing top ten lists, and chances are we haven't even heard of the Sundance films. They're just titles, people,…
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Making a small film in the US means raising money by whatever means are necessary, but other countries actually support the arts. Crazy idea, right? I'm sure there are issues with how public arts funding is doled out in the UK, but I love the fact that small films from proven talent can get some…
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