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03.11.10ITVS Launches Futurestates: Werner Herzog Voices a Plastic BagITVS, a major documentary funder, has launched a new website, Futurestates, featuring an 'online series of 11 unique short films exploring visions of what life might look like in an America of the future'. So...sort of like Demolition Man and Back to the Future 2, only shorter. The site gives a select roster of some top emerging filmmakers the opportunity to present their own unique sci-fi (a term used very loosely here) visions of a future America. So far the stand out film features a plastic bag with a conscious narrative voice as provided by Werner Herzog. It's like a ...
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03.11.10Erasing David TrailerErasing David is showing at next week's SXSW and I can't recommend it enough. Filmmaker David Bond grew increasingly worried about how much information is held on us by organisations and the government and took the gutsy step of trying to go off the map for a month. He hired a team of private investigators to track him down and the film follows this journey. As someone living in Britain it's a terrifying watch, especially in scenes where David manages to get hold of all the data held on him by communications companies and online stores. The film itself is thrilling, ...
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03.02.10Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child TrailerJean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child is one of the films I'm most sad I didn't get a chance to see at Sundance and now a trailer has been released I'm even more excited to see it. This project is a labour of love by Tamra Davis, who met the artist in 1983, and interviewed him on camera in 1988 (two years before his death at age 27, from a heroin overdose). Davis kept the footage in a drawer until now, not wanting to feel she was cashing in on the tragedy. After being persuaded that the footage was of important historical ...
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02.23.10When You’re Strange Trailer: A Documentary About The DoorsA trailer has arrived online for Tom DiCillo's When You're Strange, a documentary about Jim Morrison and The Doors. The movie premiered at Sundance last year and will finally be getting a limited theatrical release this April. Narrated by Johnny Depp, it was created mostly from archival footage shot between 1965 and the death of Morrison in 1971. It may seem a bit weird that this is the first feature-length documentary on a band as controversial and influential as The Doors, but for many people Oliver Stone's 1991 biopic covered the material already. Keyboardist Ray Manzarek was never particularly happy with ...
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02.20.10Waking Sleeping Beauty TrailerIf you enjoy documentaries about creative people and the creative process, then this looks like a movie for you. Waking Sleeping Beauty tells the no-holds-barred story of Disney Animation Studios between the years of 1984 and 1994. After a series of box office flops in the early '80s, Disney was in a bad place, and a power struggle between Jeffrey Katzenberg, Michael Eisner and Roy Disney didn't help matters. However, through determination and raw talent they were able to revitalize the company, leading to some of their biggest successes ever including Beauty and the Beast, The Lion King, The Little ...
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02.17.10American Grindhouse TrailerOoh I cannot wait to see this. It's always great to watch a trailer knowing there's a high likelihood you're going to have a lot of fun watching the film, let alone the subject matter being something I adore. From the moment I saw the archive clip of the news item saying "It has been reported that a man has gone bezerk while watching a double-feature horror programme" I was in. Narrated by Robert Forster, American Grindhouse boasts an incredible list of interviewees, many of whom are speaking on-camera for the first time. The list includes Allison Anders, Judy Brown, Larry ...