By Behind The Scenes TV on Apr 1, 2008 in Directors, Documentary, Movie Music/Soundtracks, New Releases | 1 Comment
Oscar-winning director Martin Scorsese is knee-deep in his new film, an adaptation of Dennis Lehane’s thriller “Shutter Island” starring Leonard DiCaprio and Ben Kingsley, among others. And he’s stumped. Just a little.
“This new movie is set in 1954,” he says in comic exasperation. “No Rolling Stones!”
Fans of the filmmaker will understand his consternation. Long before [...]
By Behind The Scenes TV on Mar 25, 2008 in Documentary, News | 0 Comments
With the 2008 presidential election on the horizon, the US Supreme Court on Monday summarily dismissed an appeal alleging that the free speech rights of the producers of a harshly critical political documentary were violated.
At issue was a request for a preliminary injunction by Citizens United, a conservative advocacy group that produced a documentary about [...]
By Behind The Scenes TV on Feb 20, 2008 in Directors, Documentary | 0 Comments
In 1997, millimeter Senior Contributing Editor D. W. Leitner respectfully accused director Errol Morris of “transgressing the canons of documentary dogma” while writing about Morris’ then-new documentary Fast, Cheap, and Out of Control. Ten years later, the Oscar-winning filmmaker (for 2003’s The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara) is [...]
By Behind The Scenes TV on Feb 8, 2008 in Actors, Documentary, Interview, New Releases | 0 Comments
MoviesOnline sat down with Ari Sandel, Keir O’Donnell, Peter Billingsley, and Jon Favreau at the Los Angeles press day to talk about their new movie, “Vince Vaughn’s Wild West Comedy Show: 30 Days & 30 Nights — Hollywood to the Heartland. The documentary film is directed by Ari Sandel and produced by Vince Vaughn. Executive [...]
By Behind The Scenes TV on Jan 28, 2008 in Directors, Documentary, Interview | 0 Comments
He made spelling cool when he directed the hit documentary Spellbound in 2002 and earned an Oscar nomination for his efforts. Now Jeffrey Blitz is back and taking on the English language from a different angle with the coming-of-age comedy Rocket Science. A hit at last year’s Sundance Film Festival, the story of a high [...]
By Behind The Scenes TV on Dec 11, 2007 in Directors, Documentary, Filmmaking | 0 Comments
There are few obvious parallels between Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the religiously devout Iranian president, and Jim Morrison, the famously hedonistic lead singer of the Doors.
But now the fact that the pair are to share a cinematic bond in the form of biopics directed by Oliver Stone is generating stern disapproval in conservative circles in Tehran.
Ahmadinejad accepted [...]
