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Fellini: The Ride.
Fri, Nov 20 2009 5:00 AM

Here in America, we have solid theme park rides based on movies that, for the most part, make sense, like Universal Studios' "E.T. Adventure," or the "Wayne's World" roller coaster "Hurler" (since sold and de-"Wayne"'d by Paramount, but still). But in Rome, they're building a ride based on the Fellini film... Read More...

by IFC.com - Indie Eye

Filed under: Abroad, Rome, Salo, Dante Ferretti, theme parks, City of Women, Federico Fellini, Cinecitta

Caravans of animation riding into the future.
Wed, Nov 11 2009 1:32 PM

I can't say that I spend all my nights up sleepless worrying over the future of short-form animation; it is, however, easy to say that it's hard to know where new audiences will come for any commercially marginalized form of film, be it a three-minute short or a three-hour arthouse epic. So hat-tip to Cartoon Brew for pointing me to the Puck Cinema Caravana... Read More...

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Filed under: YouTube, Abroad, Puck Cinema Caravana, innovation

Britain gets ready for rapsploitation.
Thu, Nov 5 2009 9:52 AM

Unlike the US -- where the ghetto issue movie has for years been its own subgenre -- the UK only recently got with the program. Friday sees the release of the UK's first hip-hop musical, "1 Day," which shows how quickly their film industry is adapting to the inner-city turf it previously ignored. In 2004, there was the pioneering "Bullet Boy... Read More...

by IFC.com - Indie Eye

Filed under: Abroad, Dizzee Rascal, 1 Day, rapsploitation, Killa Season

The Tate takes lessons from MySpace.
Tue, Oct 20 2009 9:50 AM

The Tate's not the first museum to get into moviemaking -- the past year alone saw "Face," directed by Tsai Ming-Liang and commissioned by the Louvre, and Olivier Assayas' "Summer Hours," which at least started off as part of a project for the Musée d'Orsay. But the Tate is thinking bigger and way more mainstream. It's giving... Read More...

by IFC.com - Indie Eye

Filed under: Abroad, Wallace & Gromit, 2012 London Olympics, Face, Musée d'Orsay, Tsai Ming-Liang, Summer Hours, Tate, Aardman Animation, Olivier Assayas, Lourve

How's a porn star supposed to go legit in these troubled times?
Thu, Oct 15 2009 3:23 PM

Miyabi (real name: Maria Ozawa) is a 23-year-old Japanese porn star whose resume includes such tantalizing credits as "Monster Swallowing Ecstasy Maria Ozawa" (live-action tentacle porn), "Fallen Urine-Drinking Pig Idol" and "Multiple Black Rape." And she was on the verge of broaden that resume with her first dramatic role -- in... Read More...

by IFC.com - Indie Eye

Filed under: Abroad, Indonesia, Kidnapping Miyabi, Miyabi, Sasha Grey, Traci Lords, Maria Ozawa

Paul Schrader goes Bollywood.
Mon, Oct 12 2009 10:48 AM

It's been a rough decade for Paul Schrader. Writing "Taxi Driver" only gets you so far -- his last two films ("The Walker," "Adam Resurrected") received token releases met with widespread critical indifference, and his "Exorcist" prequel was reshot by Renny "Deep Blue Sea" Harlin. For a guy who takes himself... Read More...

by IFC.com - Indie Eye

Filed under: Paul Schrader, Adam Resurrected, Slumdog Millionaire, Abroad, Bollywood, Renny Harlin, Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters, Taxi Driver, Deep Blue Sea, The Walker

A fine romance, with no kisses.
Wed, Oct 7 2009 1:00 PM

When making a romantic movie, you traditionally have to include, at the very least, either some lip-locking or use of the word "love." Which could be a problem for "Atonement" director Joe Wright, whose next project is an adaptation of "Indian Summer: The Secret History of the End of an Empire" by Alex von Tunzelmann. Though it sounds... Read More...

by IFC.com - Indie Eye

Filed under: Slumdog Millionaire, Joe Wright, Abroad, Edwina Mountbatten, Irrfan Khan, India, Jawaharlal Nehru, Hugh Grant, Cate Blanchett, Indian Summer

Commemorating a revolution with movies, merchandise.
Fri, Oct 2 2009 9:45 AM

The People's Republic has kicked off an eight-day holiday commemorating the 60th anniversary of the revolution -- there's so much going on in the country, film-wise, that I'm going to go in bullet-point style: -- In the words of the AP headline: "Communist China marks 60 years with tanks, kitsch." The tanks were part of a two-and-a-half... Read More...

by IFC.com - Indie Eye

Filed under: China, Abroad, The Founding of a Republic, Jackie Chan, Jet Li, Zhang Yimou, Stephen Chow, Zhang Ziyi, The Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf

David Lynch explains himself.
Fri, Sep 25 2009 8:58 AM

David Lynch has an exhibition up at the Galeries Lafayette department store in Paris. Not in Paris? Writer Dennis Cooper has a useful round-up for the rest of us. On the outside are 11 windows about "Machines, Abstraction and Women," some involving 3-D elements -- Lynch is a big fan of the Alioscopy 3-D process, which he thinks could revolutionize 3... Read More...

by IFC.com - Indie Eye

Filed under: David Lynch, Abroad, Six Men Getting Sick, Twin Peaks, Blue Velvet, Lost Highway, Alioscopy

Iranian filmmakers keep the heat on.
Fri, Sep 25 2009 1:00 AM

At the San Sebastian Film Festival yesterday, filmmakers Hana and Samira Makhmalbaf (of "Green Days") led a protest against Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's presence at the UN Council. It was the latest salvo by Iranian filmmakers against their current government, and it could go on as long as there are festivals where Iranian filmmakers... Read More...

by IFC.com - Indie Eye

Filed under: Abroad, Iran, Jafar Panahi, Hana Makhmalbaf, Bahman Ghobadi, Samira Makhbmalbaf, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, San Sebastian Film Festival 2009

When ticket price complaints lose their sting.
Tue, Sep 22 2009 5:15 PM

If you feel in need of perspective amidst all the recent film industry panic, just turn to Pakistan. Local reporter Shaheen Buneri notes that Swat valley in northwest Pakistan will be reopening one of its two theaters after three years. And why were they closed for that long? Because the government was fighting off Taliban militants. So there. Northwest Pakistan... Read More...

by IFC.com - Indie Eye

Filed under: Sylvester Stallone, Abroad, Lollywood, Kambakht Ishq, Bollywood, Pakistan

Sam Mendes, American dreamer.
Mon, Sep 21 2009 5:10 PM

"Away We Go" is hitting the UK, and the London Times' Kate Muir points out the weirdness of director Sam Mendes -- a native of Reading -- setting himself up to be the premiere chronicler of the "American Dream." Muir cites the scolding given the film by New York Times critic A.O. Scott, who castigates Mendes as "a literary tourist... Read More...

by IFC.com - Indie Eye

Filed under: Austin, The Wire, Abroad, Away We Go, Baltimore, Bill Clinton, Deja Vu, American Beauty, New Orleans, Gran Torino, Sam Mendes, 12 Rounds, Robert Frank

Narcocinema: Mexico's drugsploitation genre.
Mon, Sep 21 2009 8:50 AM

I'd never heard of narcocinema until I took a gander through Vice's substantive new film issue. Well, consider me schooled. Narcocinema is just what it sounds like: violent drug war movies shot in a manner that could be kindly dubbed "functional," frequently based on narcocorridos (drug songs). Only 18% of the Mexican population can afford to... Read More...

by IFC.com - Indie Eye

Filed under: Watchy, Vice, Abroad, Mario Almada, Narcocinema, Jorge Reynoso, 21 Grams, Y tu mamá también

Almodóvar gets left off the list.
Fri, Sep 18 2009 2:25 PM

There's a hot new drama from Pedro Almodóvar; it's just not his new movie. Spain's most famous living filmmaker has had a tempestuous relationship with the Spanish Cinema Academy for year. He and his brother Agustín left the Academy in a huff in 2005 to protest the new voting rules for the Goyas (Spain's Oscars). Now the Academy's returned... Read More...

by IFC.com - Indie Eye

Filed under: Woody Allen, Map of the Sounds of Tokyo, Isabel Coixet, Pedro Almodóvar, Controversy, Abroad, Daniel Sanchez Arevalo, Broken Embraces, The Dancer and the Thief, Goyas, Fernando Trueba, Spain, Gordos

Down and out in Saudi Arabia.
Thu, Sep 17 2009 10:40 AM

I've never seen a film from Saudi Arabia and, thanks to Jeffrey Fleishman's fine article in the L.A. Times, now I know why: the country only produced its first feature in 2006, and there are no theaters to show movies in anyway. In his report on how tough filmmakers there have it, Fleishman focuses on the Talashi Film Group, which is pretty much just... Read More...

by IFC.com - Indie Eye

Filed under: Abroad, Talashi Film Group, Gulf Film Festival, Menahi, Saudi Arabia, Dubai, Iran