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Meryl Streep, luckless thespian
Tue, Sep 1 2009 1:14 PM

Sometimes The Onion's stories and editorials are pointed satire and sometimes they're just goofy conceits and absurdities. The much-discussed fake Meryl Streep editorial is something else. In it, "Streep" bemusedly points out that despite her reputation as one of America's best actresses, she's never owned a flat-out masterpiece. If... Read More...

by IFC.com - Indie Eye

Filed under: Meryl Streep, Will Smith, Versus, Ellen Burstyn, John Goodman, Adaptation., Al Pacino, Manhattan, Alan Arkin, The Exorcist, Raising Arizona, John Cazale

What people know when they say they know movies.
Wed, Aug 26 2009 5:30 PM

Our friends at Time Out New York have whipped up a neat little alt-canon of 25 films most people wouldn't think of as essential to cinematic knowledge in the way of "Citizen Kane" or "Battleship Potemkin" but which, according to them, should be. Now, I applaud the TONY crew for digging deep into their personal loves and not pandering one... Read More...

by IFC.com - Indie Eye

Filed under: The Godfather, Versus, Psycho, Mouchette, Citizen Kane, The Mirror, Battleship Potemkin, Smoke Signals

The mentally ill are either saints or devils.
Mon, Aug 24 2009 5:35 PM

There's a long, annoying sub-genre of movies in which we learn that people who are "insane" are actually "saner" than "normal" people. You can trace it back to 1967's "King of Hearts," in which soldier Alan Bates is forced to hide out in a mental asylum, where he grows as a human being, learns that War Is Bad and... Read More...

by IFC.com - Indie Eye

Filed under: Versus, Wolf Creek, Away From Her, King Lear, Twelve Monkeys, King of Hearts, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, Hamlet, Forrest Gump

Tokyo versus "The Cove."
Tue, Aug 18 2009 6:35 PM

"The Cove," the Louie Psihoyos-directed outrage doc about dolphin drive hunting, capture and killing in Taiji, Japan, isn't turning out to be the relative box-office hit it seemed on track to become after winning an audience award at Sundance and gathering glowing reviews. Having only pulled in a total of $422,812 so far in limited national release... Read More...

by IFC.com - Indie Eye

Filed under: Versus, Sundance 2009, The Cove, Louie Psihoyos, dolphins, Tokyo 2009, Fisher Stevens

How to save indie film? Form bands, not labs.
Thu, Aug 13 2009 3:30 PM

Ted Hope, the major indie producer behind "Happiness," "American Splendor," "Adventureland" and many others, is a worrier -- he wants new distribution models and new ideas for independent film, and he wants them now. This week he's got a provocative guest post on his blog from Caitlin McCarthy, a screenwriter and inner-city public... Read More...

by IFC.com - Indie Eye

Filed under: Versus, mumblecore, Sundance, Ted Hope

Wes Anderson, tumor.
Wed, Apr 15 2009 4:54 PM

In his interview with Noel Murray at the AV Club, Will Oldham expresses from pretty strong thoughts on movie music in general and Wes Anderson in particular: AVC: You mentioned talking to Richard Linklater and Caveh Zahedi about your ideas on movie music. Can you summarize those ideas? WO: Well, for a while, it seemed like you were always seeing movies where... Read More...

by IFC.com - Indie Eye

Filed under: Wes Anderson, Versus, The Darjeeling Limited, soundtracks, music, Will Oldham

Tha Lawsuit III.
Tue, Apr 7 2009 1:20 PM

"The Carter," Adam Bhala Lough's unexpectedly artful documentary about Lil Wayne that premiered at Sundance earlier this year, is now the source of a lawsuit from the wee multi-platinum rapper, who's suing the film's production company for "Breach of Contract, Fraud by Intentional Misrepresentation, Constructive Fraud and Invasion of... Read More...

by IFC.com - Indie Eye

Filed under: Versus, Sundance 2009, Lil Wayne, The Carter, Adam Bhala Lough

Copyright infringement, sadistic streaks and Hitchcock.
Tue, Sep 9 2008 10:55 AM

Sheldon Abend was a literary agent who purchased the rights to "It Had to Be Murder," a 1942 short story by Cornell Woolrich that was adapted by Alfred Hitchcock into "Rear Window." He died in 2003, but his estate endures and has finally noticed that the 2007 Shia LaBeouf thriller "Disturbia" is an awful lot like Hitch's film... Read More...

by IFC.com - Indie Eye

Filed under: Versus, Alfred Hitchcock, Disturbia, It Had to Be Murder, Jimmy Stewart, Sheldon Abend, Rear Window

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

Timing is everything.
Thu, Aug 28 2008 5:23 PM

Mike Scott at New Orleans' Times-Picayune notes the impeccable taste Lionsgate is showing in releasing "Disaster Movie" on the third anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, August 29th: Around these Katrina-scarred parts, Aug. 29 is still -- and will be for some time -- a black-armband kind of day. For Lionsgate studios, however, Aug. 29 isn't quite... Read More...

by IFC.com - Indie Eye

Filed under: Versus, Meet the Spartans, Disaster Movie, Jason Friedberg, Aaron Seltzer

We Todd Did.
Thu, Aug 14 2008 11:51 AM

While the folks behind "Tropic Thunder" had obviously soldiered up in advance for -- and were probably counting on -- controversy surrounding Robert Downey Jr.'s (totally hilarious) turn as a method actor in surgically applied blackface, the vehement protests surrounding the film's frequent, gleeful use of the work "retarded" seem... Read More...

by IFC.com - Indie Eye

Filed under: Tropic Thunder, Justin Theroux, Special Olympics, semantics, Timothy Shriver, Versus, Ben Stiller, New Outrageousness