Lunch and a Movie

by Nick Dawson | On November 19 @ 03:31 PM

One of FilmInFocus' contributors, Mike Plante - who wrote articles for us on animation and short films - is not only a fine writer but a top notch film festival programmer. And through his work with festivals, Mike gets to meet and befriend a lot of...

Paul Rogers' Name That Movie

by Nick Dawson | On November 17 @ 03:15 PM

Last week, I wrote a blog entry on unofficial film posters, so I thought a logical next step would be to flag up another website featuring great movie-related art. The site in question is the blog of Pasadena-based illustrator Paul Rogers, who has a...

Anne Thompson Talks to Michael Stuhlbarg

by Nick Dawson | On November 16 @ 03:19 PM

Recently indieWIRE's Anne Thompson went, armed with her trusty flipcam, to sit down with A Serious Man's lead actor, Michael Stuhlbarg, at the Sunset Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles. Below is the first part of the three-part interview, which you can watch in...

Cinematical Turns On To Radio Movies

by Nick Dawson | On November 13 @ 01:36 PM

To coincide with the release of Pirate Radio today, one of our favorite film sites, Cinematical, has turned its attention to other movies involving the radio. (As I did myself in an article on this site, DJs on Film.) Here's how Monika Bartyzel's piece...

Focus Features 2010 Slate

by Peter Bowen | On November 12 @ 02:39 PM

Focus Features announces their line up for 2010. Here is a link to the press release. Greenberg (Friday, March 12) Starring Ben Stiller opposite Greta Gerwig, Greenberg is directed by Noah Baumbach from a story he wrote with Jennifer Jason Leigh. At a...

PIrate Radio meets DJs

by Peter Bowen | On November 12 @ 01:32 PM

A special screening of Pirate Radio was held last night for DJs and special guests at New York’s brand new Crosby Hotel. Guests were greeted with cocktails, popcorn and, of course, fish and chips, before stepping into the hotel’s new...

Pirate Radio Sails On

by Peter Bowen | On November 11 @ 02:29 PM

As Pirate Radio gets ready to sail into theaters, a wave of new articles are coming out about the cast and filmmakers. On About.com, Rebecca Murray provides a funny interview with the larger-than-life Nick Frost, who talks about the problems fitting on a...

Celebrating Not Movie Posters

by Nick Dawson | On November 11 @ 01:31 PM

A few days, film folk started blogging about the marvelous poster that mashes up those two films of this fall season featuring talking foxes, Lars von Trier's Antichrist and Wes Anderson's Fantastic Mr. Fox. It was dreamed up by Nashville-based graphic...

Pirate Radio Boards Yahoo Movies

by Peter Bowen | On November 10 @ 02:01 PM

Get on board. A clip from Pirate Radio is on the home page of Yahoo Movies...

Richard Curtis on "Realism"

by Nick Dawson | On November 10 @ 12:08 PM

From our friend over at Movie City Indie, Ray Pride, here's a little clip from a recent interview with Pirate Radio director Richard Curtis in which he discusses happiness and how critics perceive the concept of realism. You can check out...

Man Buys Lost Chaplin Film on eBay

by Nick Dawson | On November 06 @ 01:05 PM

From The Guardian comes this amazing story: a man bought a previously unknown Charlie Chaplin film for the princely sum of £3.20 (about $5.30) on online auction site eBay. It's not quite on the scale or enormity of the discovery of a proper print...

Screen Comment on Sin Nombre

by Nick Dawson | On November 05 @ 01:47 PM

Screen Comment, the film website run by New York-based journalist Ali Naderzad, is a regular read here at FilmInFocus. It's always really nice for us when one of the sites we love writes about one of the films we love, and as a result it was  great...

Pirate Radio Sightings

by Peter Bowen | On November 05 @ 09:16 AM

With Pirate Radio on the horizon, articles on the film, the cast and the history of the pirate radio are being hoisted up the masthead of various websites. Here are couple fun pieces. At the Oakland Tribune, Jim Harrington’s “Pirate Radio...

Christopher Walken Does Lady Gaga

by Nick Dawson | On November 04 @ 01:51 PM

As it was with William Shatner reading Sarah Palin's resignation speech, so it is with this: it's all in the delivery. On a UK talk show hosted by Jonathan Ross, the wacky and wonderful Christopher Walken gave a spoken-word rendition of pop sensation...

FilmInFocus Podcast: Sari Lennick

by Peter Bowen | On November 04 @ 01:12 PM

Listen to FilmInFocus’ conversation with Sari Lennick, who plays the wife Judith Gopnick in the Coen Brothers’ new comedy A Serious...

FilmInFocus Podcast: Michael Stuhlbarg

by Peter Bowen | On November 03 @ 12:14 PM

Peter Bowen and Scott Macaulay speak with Michael Stuhlbarg, the lead of the Coen Brothers’ new comedy A Serious Man. Find out what he has to say about his character's real story by listening to FilmInFocus’ conversation...

Hitchcock at Halloween

by Nick Dawson | On November 02 @ 03:12 PM

At the weekend, Tom Sutpen - the curator of one of our favorite blogs, If Charlie Parker Was a Gunslinger, There'd Be a Whole Lot of Dead Copycats who we featured on Behind the Blog a while back - celebrated Halloween by turning the spotlight on a rather...

Variety names Michael Stuhlbarg an "actor to watch"

by Peter Bowen | On November 02 @ 03:06 PM

Variety released named and feted their “10 Actors to Watch,” and quite rightly Michael Stuhlbarg, the lead in the Coen Brothers’ A Serious Man made the cut. While no stranger to theater, Stuhlbarg is just breaking out in cinema. He told...

Martin Scorsese's Eerie Eleven

by Nick Dawson | On October 30 @ 12:55 PM

It's Halloween and so myriad celebrities - just like our Five In Focus horror writers - are picking their scariest movies. One of the most prominent within the film community to publically reveal the films on his personal ballot is a certain young,...

Carrie Returns to Broadway?

by Nick Dawson | On October 29 @ 09:32 AM

It's fair to say that's been a minor fascination of mine on this site has been to write about all the movies that are being turned into musicals and operas, as well as film directors who have been recruited to direct operas. Particularly with the former,...