The Savannah Film Festival will close with Rise of the Guardians from Dreamworks Animation. It will be the first film to take advantage of the new 3D technology at Trustees Theater.
The 2012 Savannah Film Festival — sponsored by the Savannah College of Art and Design — will be held Oct. 27 – Nov. 3.
[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…
“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…
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…
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 –…
“He was a kind of nothing,” one envoy reports after trying to stop the banished Caius Martius Coriolanus from turning his wrath on Rome. Ralph Fiennes brings a blazing intensity to his role as Coriolanus (Fiennes also directed), but he…
Another Happy Day assembles one of the strongest casts that I can recall in recent years. Ellen Barkin, Ellen Burstyn, Demi Moore, Thomas Haden Church, George Kennedy, and Diana Scarwid are among the big names, and they share some stunning…
The Artist opens at the movies. Star George Valentin (Jean Dujardin) is among those gathered behind the screen – watching in reverse – as his latest hit finishes. We cut to the theater and see a few clips of the…
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…
The full schedule hasn’t yet been announced for the Savannah Film Festival, but most of the high-profile special screenings are now known — and so too are some of the major guests who have committed. Once again the SCAD-produced event…
If you don’t know Bill Augustin, you should, at least if you care anything about the Savannah Film Festival. Bill is the New York-based Special Programming Director. He first got involved with the festival in his work with publicist Bobby…
One of the most interesting — and perhaps most perilous — artistic choices is obvious in the opening moments of The Conspirator, which will be released nationwide on April 15th. There’s a great action story that could be told here…
