The 9th annual Psychotronic Film Festival runs from Sunday, Jan. 22 to Saturday, Jan. 28 at Muse Arts Warehouse here in Savannah. Click here for information on the schedule, location, tickets, and all the other particulars on the Psychotronic Film…
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From Telluride to Savannah: Mountainfilm on Tour coming Jan. 20-21
Another exciting addition to Savannah’s cultural calendar, now in its 3rd year. From the Mountainfilm website: Mountainfilm is dedicated to educating and inspiring audiences about issues that matter, cultures worth exploring, environments worth preserving and conversations worth sustaining. Started in 1979,…
Restored version of 1977 animated “The Hobbit” being screened Wednesday in Savannah
Psychotronic Film Night at The Sentient Bean on Wed., Jan. 11 features a restored version of the 1977 TV film of The Hobbit. There’s lots more information about the 8 p.m. screening here.
Here’s a homemade trailer by a fan:
Click on the post to see another homemade trailer pairing images from the animated 1977 version with Peter Jackson’s film scheduled to be released in 2012.
April 2012 auction scheduled for everything salvaged from the Titanic
A few details here, more in the post:
I’ve also embedded the trailer for the 3-D version of James Cameron’s “Titanic”, which will be released on April 6th.
Check out “The Dark Knight Rises” trailer, plus stills
A few days ago, I posted the first trailer for Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit, which comes out in December 2012. I finally got around to watching the trailer of another highly anticipated 2012 release. Here’s the trailer for The Dark…
Finally something worth blogging about: First trailer for Peter Jackson’s “The Hobbit”
Let’s get right to the action: The Hobbit will be released in December 2012. I’m so glad that Peter Jackson (who made at least one really great movie not based on the work of J.R.R. Tolkien — Heavenly Creatures) has…
Movie review: A triumphant return for “The Muppets”
[Update: I wrote this review on 11/5, but I’m bumping this back to the top of the blog now that the film has been released.] Walter quit growing at about three feet tall. He’s a covered in fur. He has…
On anniversary of JFK assassination, filmmaker Errol Morris considers the “umbrella man”
Why would anyone have an umbrella on a beautiful, cloudless day?
Why were frequent public appeals and media mentions unable to determine the man’s identity for more than a decade?
Carving out a new future in “Butter”; a review
“Are these crackers for real?” asks Destiny, the sweet ten-year-old African American foster child, as she confronts the peculiar customs of white Iowans. Destiny finds a home amidst the weirdos in Butter, a screamingly funny new movie from director Jim…
Freud and Jung face off: Whose is bigger? (a review of “A Dangerous Method”)
A Dangerous Method is smart, entertaining, and provocative, but it’s still a surprisingly flat fictionalization of key moments in the relationship — first cordial and supportive but later bitter and divisive — between Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud. Director David…
Even sociopaths have mothers; a review of “We Need to Talk About Kevin”
We Need to Talk About Kevin opens with adventurer and author Eva Khatchadourian ecstatically immersed in La Tomatina, the Spanish festival that’s seen here as an orgiastic tomato fight. At one point, Eva is even lifted by the crowd –…
The schedule and selected trailers for the Savannah Film Festival
The full lineup for the Savannah Film Festival is now available via a PDF download at the Savannah Box Office website. If you’re looking for IMDB links to a lot of the films, check out a previous post here. Some…
Zombies in Cuba
Well this is absolutely delightful (and not for those scared of zombies). Not much on the Juan de los Muertos IMDB page, but here’s the trailer for Juan of the Dead: Exclusive: Debut Trailer of JUAN OF THE DEAD! Cuba’s…
Herzog’s “Cave of Forgotten Dreams” screens Sunday in Savannah
Back in college, I was sort of a Werner Herzog groupie. I’m pretty sure the first Herzog movie that I saw was 1972’s Aguirre: The Wrath of God, but in pretty short order — in part because of a class…