The 2008 Sundance Film Festival announced its lineup today and, as usual, you need a GPS to navigate your way through the 121 feature films. So we’ve come up with a Top Ten for the Dramatic and Documentary Competitions. (This doesn’t include World Cinema categories — we’ll do that later.)
Sundance 2008 Top Ten to Watch
(no particular order)
DRAMATIC COMPETITION
:: Choke (see the […]
Disney makes fun of its own movies… and wins big at the Thanksgiving holiday box office. Enchanted, the studio’s apparent farewell to their modern animated classics, grossed just under $50 million in its first five days.
LOBBY REVIEW
Enchanted is an average movie stuffed into an above-average concept: Characters from an animated fantasy world — like those in, say, Beauty and […]
Order No Country for Old Men on DVD now from Amazon.com
UPDATE (2/25/08): … and now the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has spoken in favor of this superb film… Let the debates and analysis continue!
UPDATE (2/1/08): This post has been up for about three months now and the response has been overwhelming. Because of the amazing Lobby community, […]
No big surprise that we’ve received reader requests to get into the specifics of The Mist ending, especially since it differs from Stephen King’s original novella. We just can’t do it.
Not because King — who loves the “new” ending — said anyone who discloses it should be ”hung from their neck until dead.” (Ouch.) We just don’t think it’s an upstanding idea […]
You regular Lobby readers are familiar with Movie Poster Monday. Tonight, we’ve got a DVD set cool enough to warrant a Movie Packaging Tuesday.
It’s for today’s release of I Am Cuba: The Ultimate Edition (read my review on filmcritic.com), the infamous 1964 propaganda film told with staggeringly amazing cinematography. This DVD set includes the movie and […]
Last week The Lobby heard from Curt Johnson, director of one of the most skillfully produced documentaries of 2007 – who told us how lobbyists almost squashed the film’s DVD release. Your Mommy Kills Animals, a remarkably thorough chronicle of animal rights activism, wasn’t exactly the major food corporations’ favorite movie.
So they sued Johnson (read our interview) to prevent you from seeing the DVD. Officially, […]
