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Film festivals, that place where Americans used to go by The Hollywood Reporter: Risky Business

By Steven Zeitchik American companies cut back on their festival movies, and now festivals are cutting back on their American movies. It was only a matter of time. Festival films -- also known as, um, high-quality literate movies -- are... Read More....
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A jury finds that it get easier with practice by The Hollywood Reporter: Risky Business

By Steven Zeitchik In very un-O.J. fashion, juries seem to actually be getting it right these days. First Tribeca gave a prize to Marshall Curry's hugely satisfying "Racing Dreams.." Then Cannes admirably chose Michael Haneke's "The...
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No gambling metaphors -- but plenty of weirdness -- at CineVegas by The Hollywood Reporter: Risky Business

By Steven Zeitchik How surreal can CineVegas be? It's the kind of festival where you could be sitting in a theater waiting for a screening to begin, and through the speakers come the sounds of a couple tearfully exchanging vows,... Read More...
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In Las Vegas, poker movies and other forms of doubling down by The Hollywood Reporter: Risky Business

By Steven Zeitchik With "Hangover" currently offering one version of Las Vegas on the big screen, there's something surreal about experiencing the city through the prism of a different cinema lens: that of a film festival. But CineVegas...
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Chaos In NY by The Hot Blog

It's one of those NYT stories that pulls ts punches and still resonates profoundly for months to come. That is the nature of the bubble of New York, where the NYT is more powerful than any mayor and certainly as mighty as the Senators from this great...
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SXSW Awards by The Hot Blog

The 2009 SXSW Film Festival Juries consisted of: Narrative Feature Competition: Scott Foundas, Ted Hope, Kim Voynar; Documentary Feature Competition: Anne Thompson, Basil Tsiokos, Lois Vossen; Reel Shorts: Emma Gray Munthe, Dan Nuxoll, Caspar Sonnen;...
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Sundance Bob Feted By America's Oldest Fest by The Hot Blog

One has to wonder... Geoff Gilmore leaves Sundance for Tribeca... a few weeks later, notoriously attention-shy Robert Redford is announced as the big honoree at the center of the San Francisco International Film Fest... a festival that while senior and...
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SXSW Preview Clip by The Hot Blog

Josh Brolin channels a certain Dark Knight tryiing to pick up Marley Shelton on a plane...
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Gilmore Goes Tribeca by The Hot Blog

I am not 100% sure what to make of Geoffrey Gilmore exiting Sundance after 19 years to go to the never-quite-stabilized Tribeca Film Festival. As a fan of the Miami Dolphins, I am amused to see him becoming "Chief Creative Officer," which like...
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Official Rejection by The Hot Blog

I saw a smart little documentary last night called Official Rejection , a doc about the experience of one group of filmmakers who got rejected from Sundance, Slamdance, and a parade of other festivals before they start making the journey into the third...
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Tooting My Own Push Horn by The Hot Blog

It's one of the oddities of this industry that journalists end up having more than one voice. At festivals, many of us are in the odd position of offering our opinions, not pull quotes, for movies before we even get a chance to write. And so it was...
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Paper Hearts Wins Sudance Award For Screenwriting, But... by The Hot Blog

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The Re-Creation Heard 'Round The 'Dance by The Hot Blog

You may have heard about the fight between "The Dude" aka Jeff Dowd and John Anderson, film critic at Sundance. If you haven't been following our coverage on The MCN Sundance Blog, here is a look at our re-creation, co-starring who else...
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A Sundance Chart by The Hot Blog

Who doesn't always need just one more chart? This one is designed to get a handle on the films most likely to find buyers (or not), to give you an overview of the market that Sundance has become, and to offer a daily perspective on what seems to be...
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Havana as the new Mr. Chow? by The Hollywood Reporter: Risky Biz Blog

By Carl DiOrio Hotel Nacional has been site to a number of small-world moments during the ongoing Habana Film Festival. With industry professionals from the U.S., Europe and throughout Latin American here for the 30th annual regional film fest, it's...
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