6 posts tagged “oscars”
“Burma VJ,” Anders Østergaard
“The Cove,” Louie Psihoyos
“Every Little Step,” James D. Stern and Adam Del Deo
“Facing Ali,” Pete McCormack
“Food, Inc.,” Robert Kenner
“Garbage Dreams,” Mai Iskander
“Living in Emergency: Stories of Doctors Without Borders,” Mark N. Hopkins
“The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers,” Judith Ehrlich and Rick Goldsmith
“Mugabe and the White African,” Andrew Thompson and Lucy Bailey
“Sergio,” Greg Barker
“Soundtrack for a Revolution,” Bill Guttentag and Dan Sturman
“Under Our Skin,” Andy Abrahams Wilson
“Valentino The Last Emperor,” Matt Tyrnauer
“Which Way Home,” Rebecca Cammisa
The 15 feature films being considered for an Oscar Nomination (which
The Betrayal (Nerakhoon) it opens in NYC on Nov 21, Jan 23 in LA, Feb
27 in Bay area (check site for more cities) & will be on POV on PBS next season
Ellen Kuras was interviewed by IndieWire and profiled in the New York Times.
Blessed Is the Match: The Life and Death of Hannah Senesh (will be on DVD in spring)
Encounters at the End of the World (just out on DVD)
Fuel (playing Portland now, see site for more cities)
The Garden (screening Nov 21 & 22 at Denver Film Fest)
Glass: A Portrait of Philip in Twelve Parts (I think it will be on American Masters on PBS)
I.O.U.S.A. (they have a 30 minute version online, you can also watch a related film In Debt We Trust online)
Made in America by Stacy Peralta
Man on Wire will be out on DVD Dec 9th
Pray the Devil Back to Hell (at Cinema Village in NYC, at Red Vic in SF Dec 12-18, check site for more)
Standard Operating Procedure by Errol Morris is on DVD (photos from SFIFF)
Also, Mary and Max, the first feature length claymation film from Oscar winner Adam Elliot
will be the opening film at the Sundance Film Festival. The competition lineup should be announced soon
(subscribe to the Indiewire newsletter to be among the fist to find out).
I'll update this with more info tonight.
Five of these will be nominated on Jan. 22nd:
"For the Bible Tells Me So" http://www.forthebibletellsmeso.org
"Lake of Fire" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_of_Fire_%28film%29
"Nanking" also see ted.aol.com/category.php?catID=359
"No End in Sight" (on DVD)
"Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience"
"A Promise to the Dead: The Exile Journey of Ariel Dorfman"
"Sicko"
"White Light/Black Rain" (on DVD)
Update: The new short film is online. I'm not sure for how long. It is 2007, the Academy should realize the videos should both be easy to embed and permanently archived. Hopefully, Morris will put it on his site with a list of the
people interviewed.
In 2002, the highlight of the Oscars was a short film (which is online) with 98 people (many famous, some not) talking about their favorite movies. He shot 25 hours of film. The short was 4 minutes 15 seconds.
Ann Thompson reports in the Hollywood Reporter that Morris made another short for Sunday's Oscars while
working on his Abu Ghraib film.
He interviewed 130 Oscar nominees for what was supposed to be a 4 minute short. It ended up being
4 minutes and 40 seconds long. All of the 130 people he interviewed appear in it (Thompson writes that on the other film, "Morris caught hell from some of the luminaries he left out, like U.S. poet laureate Robert Pinsky").
In the article, he mentions he hopes he'll be able to make a longer film out of the interviews. I hope he is able to this time.
He had wanted to make a longer version of the 2002 short, but abandonned the project. There is an example of what he was hoping to do - edit in the favorite films of people as they talked about them (in this case the Donald talking about Citizen Kane). I wonder the reason he didn't complete it had to do with the cost of the rights to use the clips from films (I think one reason LA Plays Itself isn't available on DVD is because of rights issues).
The first film, Jesus Camp starts at noon and the last film, Iraq in Fragments, begins at 9:10 pm (full schedule with links to more info on the films). It is sponsored by the Documentary Film Institute.
Iraq in Fragments (which really should be seen in a theater) is also playing at the Roxie at least through February 27th. Mark Danner will introduce a free screening on Sunday March, 4th at 4 pm at the De Young as part of the Documentary Film Institute's Witness to War.
The Balboa, Roxie, and Documentary Film Institute all have email lists.
The Ghosts of Abu Ghraib is playing at the Roxie through Sunday. It probably will be playing in a few
other cities before HBO begins showing it February 22nd. I'll be seeing it on Monday at a screening followed
by a discussion with filmmaker Rory Kennedy and Mark Danner.
Update: Rory Kennedy was interviewed on KQED's Forum (MP3 & streaming audio online).
Noir City runs through Sunday at the Castro. I still have more photos from last weekend I need to upload.
And the Wide Lens: Oscar Documentaries series at SFMOMA runs Sunday afternoons and Thursday evenings through the end of February.
