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Buying in and selling out.
Fri, Sep 18 2009 5:30 PM

The Toronto International Film Festival ends tomorrow, but most journalists have already skipped ahead to extrapolating trends. There's much loose talk about potential Oscar front-runners -- "Up In The Air" apparently has a lock -- and much free-floating despair about the tough climate for making, purchasing and marketing indie films. But at least... Read More...

by IFC.com - Indie Eye

Filed under: Critic watch, Steven Soderbergh, Werner Herzog, Todd Solondz, Bad Lieutenant: Port Of Call New Orleans, Toronto 2009, Chloe, Atom Egoyan, Ivan Reitman, The Informant!

Chris Smith, Todd Solondz and the question of intent.
Thu, Sep 4 2008 4:57 PM

Chris Smith's feature "The Pool" opened in New York yesterday, and today the Onion AV Club's Scott Tobias takes on his 1999 documentary "American Movie" as part of his "New Cult Canon" series, noting that "the main knock against the movie is that Smith is condescending to his subjects and carting them out exclusively... Read More...

by IFC.com - Indie Eye

Filed under: Versus, Todd Solondz, Chris Smith, American Movie

Odds: "Slumdog Millionaire" finds a distributor, Todd Solondz makes a sequel.
Thu, Aug 28 2008 5:47 PM

Danny Boyle's new film "Slumdog Millionaire," a comedy about a Mumbai orphan who gets on the Hindi version of "Who Wants to be A Millionaire?", was set to premiere at Toronto in distribution limbo after Warner Independent Pictures went away. No longer -- Fox Searchlight is partnering with Warner Bros. to give the film a theatrical release... Read More...

by IFC.com - Indie Eye

Filed under: Odds, Disaster Movie, Manoel de Oliveira, Slumdog Millionaire, Charles Ferguson, Todd Solondz, Danny Boyle, Happiness, No End in Sight