Independent Film
Cool Shorts from the onedotzero Festival
By Norm Schrager at August 7, 2010 | 2:10 pm | 0 Comment
This fall at London's BFI Southbank, the 14th edition of the onedotzero festival will take place, a celebration of the moving image "from the offbeat to the radical," as fest PR says, featuring some pretty interesting material. Much of the work is heavily technology- and music-focused -- geek-out categories include "Robotica" and "Code Warriors" -- but the more...
Preview: Documentary Thriller CATFISH
By Norm Schrager at July 30, 2010 | 8:00 pm | 0 Comment
A documentary thriller? Yeah, I was intrigued too when Catfish hit the Sundance Film Festival earlier in 2010. Now, Rogue Pictures has acquired this tale of an Internet relationship (or, what appears to be an Internet relationship) and is promoting it as a "reality thriller." We're not too thrilled with the word "reality" in any storytelling setting, but this trailer is more...
Film / DVD Review: GREENBERG
By Norm Schrager at July 4, 2010 | 8:05 am | 0 Comment
by Norm Schrager, Meet In the Lobby 3.5 / 5 stars Writer-director Noah Baumbach (The Squid and the Whale) has created his most annoying character yet for his latest exercise in awkward interpersonal communication. On paper, we should feel sorry for Roger Greenberg (Ben Stiller): He's recently checked out of a mental hospital, presumably after a suicide attempt, and is more...
Small Legal Win for CRUDE Director Joe Berlinger
By Norm Schrager at June 10, 2010 | 3:13 pm | 0 Comment
We've long been admirers of documentary filmmaker Joe Berlinger, the guy behind exciting work like Paradise Lost, the exceptional Metallica: Some Kind of Monster and the TV series Iconoclasts. Now we, and the rest of the movie and journalism world, are rooting for Berlinger as Chevron puts the pinch on him, demanding he turn over outtakes from his 2009 film Crude, which more...
