Browsing Month February, 2008
LAND OF THE LOST Movie Begins Shooting
By Norm Schrager at February 29, 2008 | 1:45 pm | 23 Comments
While we're all checking out Will Ferrell's latest acts of undying shamelessness in Semi-Pro (left), Ferrell's latest project begins filming today: the long-planned movie adaptation of the 1970s Sid and Marty Krofft TV show Land of the Lost. Yeah, sleestacks, monkey dwarves, bad science, the whole thing. Ferrell plays paleontologist Rick Marshall, mistakenly whisked more...
NEW MOVIE PREVIEW: Documentary “The Gates”
By Allison at February 27, 2008 | 1:47 pm | 0 Comment
Last night marked the television premiere of a 2005 documentary by the legendary Maysles Brothers: The Gates, the tale behind the enormous fabric-paneled steel art installation created by Christo and Jeanne-Claude in Central Park, New York. Albert and David Maysles began filming the artists' passionate process back in 1979, chronicling initial opposition and more...
OSCAR WINNER: Taxi to the Dark Side
By Norm Schrager at February 25, 2008 | 6:15 pm | 2 Comments
Sunday's Academy Award winners and losers will be discussed ad nauseum, so we'll avoid all the obvious stuff here at The Lobby. Instead, we're really interested in the Oscar win for Taxi to the Dark Side, the Best Documentary Feature from director Alex Gibney. Acquired by HBO just three days before the big win, this festival favorite brings Gibney the Academy Award more...
THE 2008 INDEPENDENT SPIRIT AWARDS
By Norm Schrager at February 23, 2008 | 6:48 pm | 1 Comments
You can have the Oscars. We dig today's Independent Spirit Awards. Yeah, there's some crossover (Juno, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly), but the Academy Awards don't have something as cool as The John Cassavetes Award. And they definitely don't have Dennis Hopper making Rainn Wilson his indie bitch. As we watch now (5:45pm et) Todd Haynes is breaking Rainn Wilson's more...
