Indieville : Spike Lee

Watch your mouth.

IFC.com - Indie Eye — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 21:12:02 GMT

"My apologies." --Viggo Mortensen, after going off about the things "that have been happening in the last eight years in this country," and being reminded that he's actually in Toronto, from the New York Times. "Contrary to what I was quoted as saying, I feel very proud of my country and through my work I have always tried to contribute to its culture within and outside Spain and to honour my people." --Javier Bardem backpedals after calling the Spanish "a bunch...(read more)

Odds: It's the shoes.

IFC.com - Indie Eye — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 00:20:53 GMT

Wonkette's Liz Glover caught up with Spike Lee at the DNC and posed to him the Mars Blackmon question. He reacts pretty well, considering. The New York Post's Lou Lumenick claims that Magnolia Pictures has signed to distribute Steven Soderbergh's "Che," with a December 12th release date. Meanwhile, Jeffrey Wells at Hollywood Elsewhere has heard that the fatally bad Danny Glover voiceover narration has been dropped from Fernando Meirelles' "Blindness." There are...(read more)

Oh, Mr. Lee.

IFC.com - Indie Eye — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 15:47:28 GMT

When asked about the omission of a seemingly obvious interview choice for "The Black List: Volume One" by Steven Zeitchik at the Hollywood Reporter, Elvis Mitchell said "Spike Lee is kind of the go-to guy. And Spike Lee is very good at promoting Spike Lee. We wanted to show people you might not see as often." Which seems more than fair enough, particularly in light of Lee's summer newspaper spat with Clint Eastwood that so delicately illustrated the director's ability...(read more)

Fresh film faces.

IFC.com - Indie Eye — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 18:21:14 GMT

Filmmaker Magazine has just released its annual round-up of indie film up-and-comers, "25 New Faces in Independent Film." Quite a few of them are familiar -- congrats in particular to Barry Jenkins, whose great "Medicine for Melancholy" premiered at SXSW this year; Tom Quinn, whose "The New Year Parade" won the best narrative prize at Slamdance; and David and Nathan Zellner, designated "filmmakers who should have been on the list in the five previous years but inexplicably...(read more)

Kinky! Strange!

IFC.com - Indie Eye — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 17:29:17 GMT

"Kinky Boots," Julian Jarrold's comedy about how a sassy but soft-hearted (sigh) drag queen, played by Chiwetel Ejiofor, saves a struggling, stodgy shoe company (sigh) by teaching them to make footwear for cross-dressers, is the latest film set to become a Broadway musical. From the Hollywood Reporter: The British comedy and 2006 Miramax release has been acquired for the stage by veteran Broadway producers Daryl Roth ("August: Osage County") and Hal Luftig ("Movin'...(read more)