The Best Film of the Year. Watch it NOW.
I'm not even going to spoil this simply beautiful film with an introduction, except to thank film critic Erik Lundegaard for posting it on his blog. Enjoy! Where the Hell is Matt? (2008) from Matthew Harding on Vimeo. ...

Lost Metropolis Film Discovered
A reel of original film from Fritz Lang's 1927 Metropolis, thought to be edited away and lost, was discovered recently at a cinema museum in Buenos Aires. Claiming the title of the most expensive silent film of the time, Metropolis is ...

Puerto Rican Film Series in Chicago
Film The Institute of Puerto Rican Arts & Culture (IPRAC) announces the Puerto Rican Film Series 2008, kicking off with FLAGS OF STEEL Saturday July 12 Bring blankets, folding chairs and picnic baskets and enjoy a film under the stars! ...

BaleTastic - Respect back | Total Film & Film Review scans up
BaleTastic is back! One more step of the Archives is done! Respect is also back so run and grab your button to show some support! The scans from the July issues of Total Film and Film Review are up as promised in BaleImages, enjoy ;]

Summer Film Series: The Jigsaw Video Puppet Show Thing
The Bridge Summer Film Series starts off with a special guest this year: puppet-master and Charlottesville ex-patriot BenJones. In 2005, Jones was living in New York City running a comic-book store called Jigsaw. ...

Reader Call to Action: Tell Us How You Feel About FSR [Editors Blog]
But as we reach the midpoint of 2008, I think it is time to take a look back at some of the changes we’ve made here at Film School Rejects and gather some opinions from you, the readers, as to where we still need to go. ...

Film Ignorance Addendum #1: Our Man in Havana
Not content merely to give myself more than 300 films to watch and write about, I've decided to add films to the Film Ignorance list as I go along. These Film Ignorance Addendums will be classic films that I watch which, upon watching, ...

Secret film shows ‘vote-rigging’ in Zimbabwe
A secret film, made by a prison guard, shows new evidence of vote-rigging in last month’s presidential election in Zimbabwe. Shepherd Yuda, who has now fled Zimbabwe, is the guard who filmed the vote-rigging at his jail, in a production ...

Interesting Historical Artifact: Iwo Jima flagraising on film
Here’s something I never even knew existed: live film footage of the famous (second) flag-raising on Iwo Jima - the one that was captured in the legendary Joe Rosenthal photo and became the basis for the Iwo Jima memorial statue. ...

Doctor Who 'Journey's End' + Future Plans
The final episode of Season 4 was full of drama, tension, passion and sorrow. What's next for the intrepid time traveller? Will there be a new Doctor?

Film Comment. July/August 08.
Why do cinephiles regard Manoel de Oliveira so highly, you may find yourself wondering as you begin reading Jonathan Rosenbaum major piece on the "Classical Modernist" in the new issue of Film Comment. The weaknesses, after all, ...

A Film I Never Wanted to See: Part III
However, I know a little about the art in the Heritage Museum (I was especially excited to see some sculptures by Canova) and I didn’t really enjoy the film. Everyone talks about how the movie is boring, but I submit that it is not ...

First Look: Kristin Kreuk in Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li
Capcom Japan just released the first photo of Smallville star Kristin Kreuk as Chun-Li in Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li (seen above). My immediate reaction is that she isn’t wearing the traditional blue outfit or the “ox horns” ...

First Look: Kristin Kreuk in Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li
As Barack Obama grilled burgers and hot dogs in Butte, Mont. this Fourth of July, Davis Guggenheim, the director of An Inconvenient Truth and his film crew were tailing the presidential candidate, filming project about Obama and ...